DJ Khaled We The Best Forever

I always feel like DJ Khaled's albums should be called something like "DJ Khaled's All-Star Collaborations" because essentially that's what his albums are. The tracks start with a brief intro from Khaled and he handles a large portion of the production, but what he does best is get the biggest stars in Hip-Hop to appear on his albums. The one thing about listening to a Khaled album is that it kinda feels like listening to a Top 40 Rap Station, it's one top hip-hop artist after another Lil Wayne, Drake, Rick Ross, Cee-Lo, The Game, Chris Brown and thats just naming a few of the major stars on this album.

So Khaled stacked the deck full of all-stars but is the music any good? For the most part yes, the singles are really good "I'm on One" and both the original and the remix of "Welcome to my Hood" are quality tracks. A big surprise is even though the song came out over a year or so ago, there is no "All I do is Win" that was Khaled's biggest hit to date, however, it may have been excluded because at this point everyone has heard it so much they might be sick of it.

The singles are quality, but what about the rest of the album. One thing about most of the Khaled albums of the past is once you get past the singles the rest of the album isn't too special, this album however, has some pretty good songs outside of the singles. "Sleep When I'm Done" which has The Game, Cee-Lo, and Busta Rhymes is a great track, and there are plenty of quality tracks, like "Money" which has Ludacris and Jeezy, "I'm Thuggin" which has Ace Hood and Waka Flaka, "My Life" with Akon and B.O.B. and another real standout track is "Future" which has some of hip-hops best young stars on the track like Big Sean, Ace Hood, Meek Mills, and Wale, all of whom kill their verses on the track. The only track on the album which I would say is just terrible is "Legendary" which has some talented artists on it, Ne-Yo, Keisha Cole, and Chris Brown who is arguably the biggest Pop/R&B star right now and it just doesn't work, and not to mention by comparison to the rest of the album this song sounds out of place.

Overall the album is pretty quality, but it's not anything new, basically you could turn your radio to any Top 40 Hip-Hop Station and get the same effect this album delivers, but two really great songs "Sleep When I'm Done" and "I'm On One" are able to elevate this album from somewhat forgettable to really strong, and that's not bad for DJ Khaled and this current group of All-Stars he assembled.