
For most of 2010, Last Train To Paris felt like a...well, train wreck waiting to happen. With some questionable leakages, flop singles and numerous push-backs of the album's release, it felt like the album would never come out, let alone be one anyone wanted to actually listen to (was anybody really looking forward to an Auto-Tuned Diddy's own version of 8082s & Heartbreak ?). And don't even get us started on the name change from Dirty Money to the clunky Diddy-Dirty Money . Upon [...]

I had a strong suspicion that Puff’s latest wasn’t going to wind up being as bad as everyone hopes. In fact from my first couple spins I can say, without gritting my teeth, that it is decent, at worst. But as not-terrible as the Diddy-Dirty Money collabs are, my real guilty pleasure is admittedly, the Bugatti Boyz collabs, because the good 'ol constable is making a real shot at 2010’s Most Improved Player award. His verse on this album is only serves to prove my point. Though, of course, as usual, the real judgment of Paree’s [...]