Rap + rock + pop + R'n'B = thug shit ??

Sure, of course we all mourn for the old Ja Rule, whose "Venni, Vetti, Vecci" so so cool and thugged was out. One should as a rap fan but also not only see the half-empty glass: Hardcore acts are in HipHop a dime a dozen, and everyone wants to be the most extreme and harshest ever. Besides Yes dares hardly a, sometimes publish a danceable love song - which could lose its realness by! All the better that he craps out with a bordering on genius arrogance. One could spend hours arguing about whether it is now dealing with Rap, R'n'B, or even Pop, but no matter, eventually it's still high quality music.
On the latest album can be found with the produced by the Neptunes' Pop N **** s "after all, still a really hard track. This contrasts with the single "Thug Lovin '" on the Yes and Bobby Brown complement each other great. Then the Dream Team Rule / Ashanti delivers with "Mesmerize" a wonderful smoothen club hit, but at the same breeding ground for all Ja Rule haters. What the hell? The compensation for carried out with the remix of "The Pledge", which suggests the original thanks to a guest appearance by Nas by far. Overall, highly commendable that the tracks with each other as opposed to the previous album listen very different (funky old-school beats on the title track "Last Temptation", electric guitars on "Rock Star"). This is probably because this time next Irv Gotti also multitalented Chink Santana in the production had their fingers in the game, because that can not only sing like Nate Dogg, but also has a quite own view of G-Funk (listening to the strong sounding to West Coast Track "Connected"). The only misstep is "Emerica", now his third (!) Track on Ecstasy, on the same trumpet is used as in a certain overheating of Eminem ... Somehow unimaginative.
Nevertheless, a total of a bomb and thus the second best Ja Rule album right after "Venni, Vetti, Vecci".