Only God Can Judge Me

Only God Can Judge Me is yet another lousy-sounding, all but bassless offering from the No Limit cartel. With lyrics consisting of every gangsta clich© and catchphrase Master P and his cohorts can conjure, this disc will appeal only to those starving for lowest-common-denominator rap and Southern hip-hop chauvinists. Vowing to stay ghetto fabulous forever, Master P invokes his clips from Fortune (not to mention his movies, celebrated in a line that compares him, favorably, to Spielberg). When not boasting of his riches and his crew loyalty, the P slows the beat down for "Ghetto in the Sky," a rank imitation of Tupac's more thoughtful moments, and "Ghetto Prayer," a typically overdramatic meld of the gospel and wholly hollow playa "regrets." One or two more CDs as awful as this one, and Master P's stock is sure to drop as hard and fast as Puffy's did. --Rickey Wright