Since he stopped recording with Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Bizzy Bone has led a hectic release schedule, releasing solo albums, group albums, underground releases, mixtapes, and side projects every three months or so. With Layzie Bone and his former group having similar schedules, buying Bone-related releases has practically become a monthly activity for fans such as myself. "A Song For You" is his best album in a while, though. It's clear that there is more budget and effort behind this release than his past independent albums, because there are high profile guest appearances and the production is much cleaner. Much of "A Song For You" showcases Bizzy at his finest, and reminds me why Bizzy Bone has always appealed to me so much. Many of the songs are motivational, inspirational, and insightfully spiritual. He is frequently personal and emotional, but also balances these songs with some harder streets-oriented tracks. The beats are effective, smooth, and polished, and tehse piano-laced, contemplative beats are the kind Bizzy shines over. Longtime fans should note that "A Song For You" contains no dark or mystical material like he recorded earlier in his career. While some of his verses are underwhelming and he does have a few missteps, his unique singing voice and ability to use so many different flows is impressive here, and overall "A Song For You" is a huge step in the right direction, an LP that should win back skeptic fans.

The LP opens with the deep title track, a nice DMX & Chris Notez collabo. The beat is classy and appealing, with piano and acoustic guitar, and an inspired performance from all three parties. "I'm the One" is an okay rock song with Good Charlotte's Joel Madden. I love "Muddy Waters," which has Bizzy at his sentimental best. Over slow and contemplative production, Bizzy tells sad tales in a second-person narrative but provides hope to the listener. "Money" is unimaginative, but Twista provides an ever-impressive guest verse. The dramatic, emotional "What Have I Learned" is great, as is the sunny "Mercy Mary," where he happily and thankfully praises the virgin mother in triple-tongue rhymes. "I Truly Believe" continues the spiritual vibe with another catchy, polished track. Jim Jones' unlikely guest contributes to the fine "Ballin'," and the nostalgic yearning of "I Need You" is reminiscent of doo-wop, lyrically and musically. The good "Hard Times" precedes the great "Memories," where he talks about the Bone Thugs situation and gives more religious insight. The disc closes with the excellent "Real (Freestyle)" and the outro.

Bizzy has let down some fans recently with underfunded releases, but "A Song For You" is a level above any of his recent solo albums. Here, I again see the Bizzy who has inspired me so much over years past. Although it's not a perfect album by any means, and he doesn't do any music like he's never done before, he does the type of songs he is best at, and in that it is quite enjoyable. Bizzy Bone is a one-of-a-kind artist, and those fans of his past work before he began releasing albums by the truckload should love this. What I'd really like to see is instead of pumping out albums by the month with a few great tracks and some filler, Bizzy actually take the time to make the classic album we know he's capable of. Until then, "A Song For You" is a keeper.

I knew this was going to be quality but whether or not it was going to be good was question. I myself was surprised by the level of maturity in the album. Sound and content. It still has a couple of good ol' thug songs in it but Bizzy sacrifices the mainstream antics here and makes it for from and for the heart. This rivals Heavenz Movie in terms of quality. All though I feel The Gift held the most emotion and just purity this one just holds itself well. I honestly see that Bizzy has found his niche and perfected his style. After Bone Thugs released Strength and Loyalty I was very interested to see what Bizzy had to give with a larger label. Well these guys need to reunite soon for at least one more before hip hop completely drowns itself and drags down the living legends with it. Please support this album. Respectful, honest and REAL music.

With a solid debut in "Heaven'z Movie" and decent 2nd album, "The Gift", Bizzy Bone left the group and went throguh his time, he put out a few sub-par releases ("Alpha & Omega" & "Speaking in Tongues"), which made me pass up on some of his other albums ("Midwest Cowboy", "Trials & Tribulations", "Thugz Revenge" and "Ruthless"). After he came back strong with 3 collabo-albums with Layzie Bone I decided to check this one out, and WOW was I blown away, This is his best album (better than his 4.5 star "Heaven'z Movie") and is solid from start to finish. With 12 songs, you get 2 classics, 1 ok song, the other 9 are good, most being real good songs. Guests are minimal, rapping on 3 songs and doing the hook on a few others. Production is great as well. F. Romero does 8 songs, Mr. Lee, dead Executives, and A. Jones each do 1 song. A must have album and one that will make me go back and check out some of his that I passed up.

#2 - 8 (f/ DMX & Chris Notez)

#3 - 9 (f/ Good Charlotte)

#4 - 10 (CLASSIC - deep song)

#5 - 10 (CLASSIC - f/ Twista)

#6 - 9

#7 - 9 (some of the fastest rapping I've heard from Biz in awhile)

#8 - 8.5 (f/ Krys Ivory)

#9 - 9 (f/ Jim Jones)

#10 - 7.5

#11 - 8 (f/ Chris Notez)

#12 - 9 (deeper song about old time with Bone Thugs)

#13 - 8.5 (f/ Krys Ivory)

Bryon Anthony McCane -- 9/12/76 -- b. Columbus, OH moved to Cleveland, OH

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This album reminds me of heaven'z movie, but much better.

1.Prelude(intro)(Skit)

2.A song for you-(10/10) feat-Dmx & chris notes Great Song

3. I'm The One-(8.5/10) **Pretty good**

4. Muddy waters-(10/10)**beautiful song** Love it!!

5. Money-(9.5/10) feat twista **Amazing**

6. what have I learned-(9/10)

7. Mercy Mary-(9.5/10)**Tight Track**

8. I Truly Believe-(10/10)**another Beautiful song on this album!!**

9. Ballin'-(9.5/10)feat-jim jones **tight song**

10.I Need You-(9/10)

11.Hard Times-(10/10)

12.Memories-(10/10)

13.Real (freestyle)-(9.5/10)

14.crossroads (outro)-(10/10)

This was ok but i wish he did more aggressive tracks like Bizzy used to do. Still good if your a Biz fan though he has mad skills.