Track Listing

1. No Way Out (Intro)
2. Victory
3. Been Around the World
4. What You Gonna Do?
5. Don't Stop What You're Doing
6. If I Should Die Tonight (Interlude)
7. Do You Know?
8. Young G's
9. I Love You Baby
10. It's All About the Benjamins [Remix]
11. Pain
12. Is This the End?
13. I Got the Power
14. Friend
15. Señorita
16. I'll Be Missing You
17. Can't Nobody Hold Me Down

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #15208 in Music
• Released on: 1997-07-22
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Explicit Lyrics
• Dimensions: .22 pounds

Customer Reviews

GUILTY PLEASURE
Puff Daddy couldn't rap back then, and he really can't now either, but SOMEBODY bought this record. Back in 1997, you weren't even considered real if you didn't bankhead bounce to "Can't Nobody Hold Me Down", sing along to Big's (as well as Mase's and Puff's) lyrics in "Been Around the World", or "throw ya' hands up" (like Busta said) in "It's All About the Benjamins". And don't front on the gangsta tracks like "I Got the Power" with The Lox and "Young G's" with Jay-Z and Big. In the latter song, Puff proved why we don't buy his albums expecting dope rhymes from him ("...nice cars, nice b's and rings/Guess it's safe to say a n like me got nice things"). We instead bought No Way Out expecting a party, and this album rocked many a frat house back then.

So what were you doing when this album came out? Hating Puff for beat-jacking and weak rhyming or running to the dance floor whenever one of his songs came on? You did both? Me too.

Fluffy is one of the main reasons why Hip-Hop sucks today
This album is a complete piece of sh*t. Pretty much everything Fluff did after the terrible death of Biggie was crap. The only thing I'll ever give him props for is bringing up and mentoring Biggie, but serioulsy how hard could that have been? Biggie was a once in a lifetime talent that was waiting to blow, anyone could have made him into a star.

I do like his production on Big's albums, I'll give him that. But then you realize that (almost) all of his beats are straight ripped-off loops, and the choruses and hooks he employs are jacked from popular '60's-'70's soul/funk tracks. His production is all straight ripped-off in a totally unimaginitive form. Yes, I know, Hip-Hop was built on sampling, but everyone else does things CREATIVELY, fluff doesn't have a creative bone in his body.

All his big hits (the beats AND hooks) were unimaginitive rip-offs of old songs that everyone knows already. "Been around the world" - straight jacked. "DIDDY" or whatever that sh*t track was called, was jacked from BDP's "JIMMY." "Bad Boy" the Mase track, I could go on and on.

***The real reason I wrote this review was to let the world know something that is truly disgraceful. We all know how fluff brutally jacked Sting for the track "I'll be Missing You," which pretty much angered the whole world. That track was supposed to be a heartfelt tribute to his fallen homie Biggie (R.I.P. Big Man!) BUT DID YOU KNOW THAT HE DIDN'T EVEN WRITE THE F*CKING LYRICS!!! CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT?!?! SAUCE MONEY WAS EMPLOYED BY FLUFFY TO WRITE THE LYIRCS FOR THE "EULOGY" OF FLUFFY BEST FRIEND. I READ THAT IN AN ISSUE OF THE SOURCE AND I WAS FLOORED. THAT'S LIKE PAYING A STRANGER TO WRITE YOUR FAREWELL SPEECH AT YOUR BEST-FRIEND'S FEUNERAL.***

Pass on that info, please. I can't stand anything fluff does and he get waaaay too many undeserved and artificial props in this world. He is a corner-stone in Hip-Hop's selling out demise...F*ck you fluffy, you piece of sh*t. Peace.

The best rap album ever made!
Give me a break. If you believe my title, then you're in dire need of help and need to go out and buy some quality rap albums. That said, I still rather enjoy this little ditty of pop rap. The naysayers may complain that Puffy (or P.Diddy, whatever) completely ruined hip hop, but if they try to say that they didn't want put the volume on their car radios up full blast when "Can't Nobody Hold Me Down" came on, they're liars.

Puffy isn't exactly the most gifted rapper in the game, and he knows this, which is why he puts a myriad of his fellow Bad Boy family on every one of his albums. But I don't listen to his songs for deep lyrics and clever metaphors. Sometimes I just like to rock out with mindless wordplay and bumpin' beats, which is where this album would come in. These songs amp me up and make me want to dance, especially "Victory," which samples part of the score from "Rocky" and features a Busta Rhymes hook. This is the best song on the album. Other highlights include the already mentioned "Can't Nobody Hold Me Down," "Senorita," and the well-known and controversial "I'll Be Missing You." On this song, Puffy takes sampling to a whole nother level, transforming sampling to just plain beat stealing. Even so, this is still a pretty good song and remains the best Biggie tribute thus far.

Rap purists need to lighten up and come to realize that the new sound of hip hop won't die for a while, since it's now the most lucrative genre of music. And just because this "Puffy" Combs guy decided to try something new is no reason to hate him. You've heard the songs before, and you know if you like this type of rap by now, so I won't be redundant in saying, "buy this album!" I myself am entertained by it. Whatever.