Shyne

Biggie sound-alike Shyne returns with his second solo LP, on his own Gangland Record Corp. label (through Def Jam). With a dozen songs recorded before his incarceration for his role in a 1999 N.Y. shootout, the Brooklyn crime rapper still sounds nice, especially on the Kanye West- produced lead single "More Or Less."

Since Jamal "Shyne" Barrow first entered the public consciousness, in 1998, his career has
been under a series of clouds. At first, he was dismissed as a Notorious B.I.G. sound-alike, a
cheap ploy by Sean "Puffy" Combs to fill the hole left at his label, Bad Boy, by the murder of
his most prominent artist. Later, as the co-defendant in what became known as the Puffy
Trial -- facing multiple charges relating to a shooting in a Manhattan nightclub in 1... More >