Various Artists - Fast and the Furious

This album is ostensibly the soundtrack to the car-chase flick of the same name, featuring Gotti's own Murder Inc. soldier, Ja Rule. It's chock-full of samples previously utilized to better effect by Tha Alkaholiks, Dr. Dre, and Swizz Beats (who, on the misguided Limp Bizkit/DMX/Redman/Method Man combo, "Rolling," actually reworks one of his own beats). According to the liner notes, the album was "conceived and created by IRV GOTTI" (note the block caps), but it's unclear why Mr. Gotti wishes to take full responsibility for this half-baked mixture of posturing hip-hop and ineffective R&B. The most obvious clunker is the aforementioned "Rolling," which comes off as a wan retread of the Beasties' "What You Want?" Vita's right behind them with a pointless word-for-word cover of Madonna's "Justify My Love." The album's not a complete washout, though. R. Kelly steps in to save the day with the lovely "Take My Time Tonight," and Nate Dogg adds his inimitable brand of L.B. funk to Shade Sheist's "Cali Diseaz." And perhaps most notably, The Fast and the Furious offers a chance to catch Petey Pablo before he really grasps the brass ring. --Rebecca Levine Amazon.com

A lot of filler to say the least...

Yes, many have noted that the music here is not necessarily in the movie itself...but then again that's why there are two soundtracks for this film. This is the rap infused soundtrack that exists mainly because Ja Rule appears in the movie. That said, Ja Rule provides really the only track here that's worth listening to. His `Furious' (which appears on his album under another not so nice name) is the only track I really liked here. The Limp Bizkit remix was never better than the original, and the random tracks by almost every other rapper are just filler at best. Ashanti was nice to see, she's always great, as is Faith Evans, and I found myself starting to like the track by Caddillac Tah, but all in all this is just another compilation of tracks by artists you probably wouldn't listen to had they not been on this soundtrack. January 5, 2007

Stay away from this album

I put one star because it's the minimum, if not, I would've gave it zero stars. This CD can be reviewed in so few words... here are some:
NO!!!
Don't
Bad
Stay Away from it
I told you, NO!!!

In short, no music from the movie is here, and the music that is here... well, it might as well not be here, and it would it be better that way.

Summary: NO!!! don't get this CD, use the money in something else, get a hamburger or something August 5, 2006

ANSWERS FOR SONGS

Ok, so the song playing when Brian goes and we see mia for the first time is a song called "Deep Enough (Urban remix)" by Live. I have the other songs written down, including the one played between the two buildings, so I will find them and tell you. If you all want only the songs that were actually in the movie, rent the dvd, and take about ten minutes to watch the credits and write down the song names and artists. That's how I have only the songs that are in the movie. July 24, 2006

Whats this song called

Whats the song called and who is it sung by when Brian pulls up to the cafe where mia works, its like a little italian/ spanish love song, plz plz tell me i love it an cant find it! July 11, 2006

song help

Does anyone know the song being played when they raid jonny tran's place?? I can't find it anywhere. June 25, 2006

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