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No Way Out

Puff Daddy & the Family - No Way Out Audio CD

A fair review of the Puff Daddy & the Family "No Way Out" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Puff Daddy & the Family reviews here, or go back to the Puff Daddy & the Family tabs.

Band: Puff Daddy & the Family
Title: No Way Out
Rating:

Release Date: 1997-07-29
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: No Way Out (Intro) - Diddy, Diddy 2: Victory - The Notorious B.I.G., Diddy, Diddy, Busta Rhymes 3: Been Around the World - Mase, The Notorious B.I.G., Diddy, Diddy 4: Don't Stop What You're Doing - Lil' Kim, Diddy, Diddy 5: If I Should Die Tonight (Interlude) - Diddy, Diddy, Carl Thomas 6: Do You Know? - Diddy, Diddy 7: I Love You Baby - Black Rob, Diddy, Diddy 8: It's All About the Benjamins [Remix] - Lil' Kim, The LOX, The Notorious B.I.G., Diddy, Diddy 9: Pain - Diddy, Diddy 10: I Got the Power - The LOX, Diddy, Diddy 11: Se�orita - Diddy, Diddy 12: I'll Be Missing You - Faith Evans, 112, Diddy, Diddy 13: Can't Nobody Hold Me Down - Mase, Diddy, Diddy

Puff Daddy & the bad boy family
I have this CD and I brought the day it came out. . back then I was a big Puff Daddy fan and still is kind of. Anyways, for those of you that don't have this album please get it you won't be disappointed. I love this CD from start to finish. My favorite songs on the CD are:

"I love you baby"
"Do you know"
"Young G's"
"Victory"
"I'll be missing you"
"is this the end" ft Ginuwine
"All about the benjimins" .

One Way Out of this cd....
. Press Eject. Puffy is the worst thing to happen to hip hop period! He cant rap for diddly squat and he has about as much personality as a tree sloth. There is nothing more to these 4 and 5 star reviews than mere nostalgia. I hated this release from day one because I saw ahead of time what the success of this pop rap train wreck would cause. Years later everything I thought has come to pass. If there is one thing you cant escape when listening to this album is boredom. I mean how can you listen to lifeless tracks like What You Gonna Do, Do You Know, Pain(absolutely dreadful) and I Got The Power and not fall asleep? If you got this album to dance to in the clubs you have to admit that Dont Stop What Youre Doing(feat Lil Kim) Cant Nobody Hold Me Down(feat Mase) and Been Around The World(feat Biggie and Mase) would make you fall asleep in the club. Classic hip hop laughable from Puffy "Im the mackaroni with the cheese". All About The Benjamins was that track that everybody pretended to like. Even though Biggie's verse was fire everybody(with the exception of Puffy who's rhymes were garbage) from The Lox to Lil Kim has suspect verses. Senorita is bad enough to offend the Hispanic Community. Biggie's verses on Victory was fire and Busta Rhymes was tight on the hook but Puffy stopped that song from being a classic joint. This trend reappears on Young Gs feat The Notorious Big and Jay-z. I'll Be Missing You is the dullest RIP record I've ever heard in my life and EVERYBODY knows that Sauce Money wrote the rhymes for that track. The poorly used sampling makes this album all the more painful to listen to(besides Puppy's bad rapping). I've never heard so many ineffective uses of samples in my life. That is what differentiates Puff Trashy from most producers. The other producers are masters at sampling and Snuffy just sucks at it. Bottom Line: No Way Out is the worst rap release from the worst thing to come out of New York period. The production was bland, Puffy sucks as a rapper and the guest spots(with the exception of Biggie) were just as bad as Puffy. Puffy laid down the foundation for hip pop with this musical nightmare of an album. If this album is a classic to you then you must have started to listen to rap when Puffy came out.

Classic
The edited version is bad because it omits three songs, but it is good because you get to hear burps, glass smashing, and hicups to censor the curses and profanity. The album is a classic especially when clean. If you like the sounds of it edited get it but if you like originals then get the Explicit version.

Not as good as reviews say
Diddys debut album is considered a classic and with all the hits on it i do consider it a classic, however with that said this cd is not all that great. P. With the exception of all the singles on this LP it is not very good however all the songs are still listenable.

It's alright, explicit version sounds better
You know what? The clean version doesn't even sound right. I know I sound like a bad lil' girl, but it's true. All the good songs were taken off due to excessive profanity. So you're really skipping the good songs when you're listening this. A lot changes were made to this album. Track #1-The No Way Out intro sounds the same. Track #2-"Victory" the best song by Puff Daddy, and it's not cuz of Biggie & Busta Rhymes appearance. It just has a tight eerie beat. Track #3-"Been Around The World" was a popular song, both the original version and the remix have a catchy hook. The Madd Rapper skit was taken off. Track #4 (#5 Explicit Version)-"Don't Stop What You're Doing" f/ Lil' Kim is a "party" song. Lil' Kim hooked the song up. Track #5 (6)-"If I Should Die Tonight" is a just a storm interlude with Puffy talking about his grief. Track #6 (#7)-"Do You Know" has background vocals from Kelly Price. Track #7 (#9)-"I Love You Baby", Puffy's love song, features the best rapper on Bad Boy, Black Rob. Track #8 (#10)-The head-banging song of the album is "It's All About The Benjamins", yet another popular single from the album. Track-#9 (#11)-"Pain" is a depressing song, it has you thinking about Biggie. Track-#10 (#13)-"I Got The Power" has The L. O. X. doing their thing. The hook shows the "criminal" side of Puffy. Track #11 (#15)-All I gotta say about this hook of this song is "EN ESPAÑOL". Track #12 (#16)-"I'll Be Missing You" is the tribute to Biggie AKA Notorious B. I. G. featuring Faith Evans & 112. The skit from the beginning of of the track was taken off. Track #13 (#17)-"Can't Nobody Hold Me Down" f/Ma$e, Puffy just had to remake my favorite Ol' School joint called "The Message". The songs that were taken off for clean version were "What You Gonna Do", "Young G's", "Is This The End?", & "Friend".

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