Seventeen years after Slick Rick taught us to 'Treat Her Like a Prostitute,' rap grows ever more morally suspect, style has petrified into disinterested affect, and wit has been ground down to a nub. Noxious morality, sure, but Halloween is also bravura filmmaking, exacting its dubious judgments with style and wit. Roger Ebert once opined, 'Content is neutral until shaped by approach and style.' Ebert has praised Halloween, for instance, which initiated the slasher-flick motif that sluts must die and good girls live. It was certified Gold by the RIAA with over 934,000 copies sold. It features the singles 'Time's Up' (with Nate Dogg), followed by the political and world issue crossover hit 'Why' (with Anthony Hamilton), 'U Make Me Wanna' (with Mariah Carey) and ''Welcome to D-Block'' (with Eminem and D-Block). Kiss Of Death was a popular album among many rap fans. 'Kiss of Death' was released in the US on the 22nd of June and reached #1 on both the Billboard 200 and the Rap Albums charts. It is the follow up to his 2001 gold selling debut album ''Kiss Tha Game Goodbye''.

Despite what the haters say, this is another missed opportunity for Jadakiss, a man whose best work never lands on the high-profile releases.''Kiss of Death'' is the 2004 album by rapper Jadakiss. That's a first, but 'What If' isn't a first at all, using the exact same structure as Kiss of Death's Nas collaboration 'Why.' One of the more interesting cuts, the heartfelt 'Letter to B.I.G.,' already appeared on the Notorious soundtrack, and the album's title is nonsense, as Jada had already declared his intention to keep going. So many prime street cuts have been given away to comps, mixtapes, and soundtracks in the five years since Kiss of Death was released that only the slick, polished numbers remain, save the misleading kickoff 'Pain & Torture.' Two tracks later he's singing the silly 'If you're real and you know it/Clap your hands' over an unsurprising Swizz Beats production, but it's 'Grind Hard' that really disappoints, with the Mary J. This problematic arrival shows too in the final product, but the problem may not be the much maligned rapper's ability or inspiration but the constant mishandling of his material.

In a genre where albums frequently miss their street date, Jadakiss' The Last Kiss is an especially late hip-hop release, having been pushed back, retitled, and retooled numerous times.

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