i haven't seen up to the final episode. i can only watch the year-old re-runs (the last episode i saw was the one where they don't get their checks and ness doubts the veracity of chopper's new platinum chain). but, the album!! i've had it for a while and it's actually really good and worth buying and has mostly good songs and even though everyone says they didn't sell anything they still outsold joe budden, cassidy and juelz santana combined (they all had shitty sales but still! three of them) (unless i added up the numbers wrong). these are the songs i like from it:

do you know ft. wyclef jean -- it's cool hearing the full versions of the songs you watched them working on. it has a terrible intro thing with screeching sounds and smoke machines and wyclef says, "yall hear the guitars?? wyclef is in the buildinggggggg!!!!!!!!!!! puffy came to get me. i have officially made the band. i'm a rooocckkkk starrrr" but it's got a sweet, cool beat that they sound great on and ness asks babs "so where you from?" and she goes, "where chicks rock air force 1s, belly shirts tied up and our hair stay done... so where you from?" and freddie says he's from where they don't rock air force 1s, they've got air force guns and ness says he's from philadelphia and has his deuce-deuce in his tubesocks and chopper says he's from where guerillas don't mess with cops, you catch go on the run and still hug the block. and a sweet sara chorus and dylan takes it from her halfway and has this beautiful rising thing about the sun rising and everyone else gets half a verse each about how they're going to prove themselves and all of them introducing themselves and explaining their styles over the outro.

go steady -- it's kind of the sara solo track, i guess. it's very smooth and modern and glittery and whatever and has lines like "wear your hat tilted to the side, i get a chill from those pretty brown eyes" and about how she wants a gentleman and she'll make it worth his wait. the ness verse at the very end kind of upset me at first. he's totally not the guy sara's looking for (he's a jerk and not romantic at all and is kind of immature), he's a real asshole for no reason and says that if he's not with her, he'll be fucking other women (but not her sister or her cousin, at least), even though he does sound kind of shy and subdued. (it would be the best song ever with freddie in ness's spot).

tonight -- everyone knows why this is good and it was a way better single than bad boy this and even when i stayed up to watch uncut and they'd play the version that showed more of the bubblebath girls with freddie and more sara inner thigh, my disappointment would be tempered by its whatever makes it so good. (i love freddie's greasy OUR PLANE TO BAHHHHHAAMMMMAS verse so much).

chopped up -- it's chopper's track and it's about driving around new orleans and wearing fancy clothes and having guns and the beat sounds kind of like the ugk song with big gipp and there are lots of sound effects to illustrate the chorus. (there was an eleventh hour play to get chopper to write for gov't names. it fell through but the door's still open if he wants to get at me).

stick up -- i'm not sure. freddie and ness pull up in a car and freddie's telling him how it's going to go down and they cock their guns and run up in a bank or something. freddie's verse starts with MOTHERFUCKER FREEZE, take a seat on the floor. they fill up bags and shoot anyone who moves, sirens, "nobody move, nobody move, one false move put that ass in the dirt, ooohhh, don't me act a fool, real niggas gon do what they have to do" chorus, police tell them to come out with hands up, hostages are taken. i don't want to spoil the ending.

what we gonna do -- the album is kind of split between scary songs about being from new orleans and shipping bricks or fun songs about girls and shit. and um this is just one of the second choices but: trackmasters! spanish guitar thing! bounce! and it's got the best babs action on the whole thing! (it seems like she's on it less than anyone else, even dylan, which seems weird since she was all serious about working and stuff. she has a surprisingly gentle voice that sounds good on everything, though).