the new DE is tight, got some tight shit on it, so does the mic c and hollow and everything else mentioned. track #2 on gangsta reese is bangin!!! but no one is mentioning the new Messy Marv? i know that Messy got a few recycled verses in there but still not 1 person mentioned it, cuz i thought it was tight. but if i had to go with the best album out so far i'd have to go with NE4. northern expozure 1 was amazingly tight, and when NE2 dropped i expected the same calibur cd, but it wasn't. so i was expecting NE4 to be on that Level when it was clearly above that, so my best purchase of the year has to go to NE4, with the unexpected coming in at a close 2nd. =)