At first listen can cause this album with so many hip-hop fan who was contaminated over the years of more moderate rap discs as the Wu-Tang Clan, astonishment and incomprehension. Clear, because "No Way Out" is not a perfectly ordinary hip-hop album. It is a perfect mix of cool beats, sometimes indeed very simple texts (for rap but that is not abnormal) and also very philosophical thought processes and real feelings. Puff it manages to combine rap, pop influences, soft R'n'B and even classical elements perfectly, creating thus a very Varied album. Apart from the known single releases like "Been around the World", "Can not Nobody Hold Me Down" and "I'll be missing you" that begins on this disc with a rather haunting classical part and a kind of prayer Puff, convinced the BadBoy with soft, warm beats like in "Pain", harder Hip Hop as in "Young G's" soulful rap with masterful vocal performances as in "Is this the end?" and with perfectly integrated in the Album History Bridges as the outstanding "If I should die tonight" and a very good scene at the end of "Friend". The collaboration with many artists such as The Notorious BIG, The Family, Ginuwine, Foxy Brown and Jay-Z make the album even more fun-and give him the air of a big musical project, it is quite. All in all, we can say that this album is strong, characterized by feelings Puffy's, which of course related to the death of his friend BIG, hence the rather depressive titles like "Pain", "If I should die tonight", "Is this the end? " and just "I'll be missing you". "No Way Out" is a kind of diary Puffy's, where the soft, vulnerable boy comes in many places from the smart traders and Badboy producer for Vorschei. This album raises not only musically but also human a very good picture of Sean "Puffy" Combs.
