提到Hiphop圈中最好的两人组合，你不得不把Redman和Method Man这两个实则单干却又惺惺相惜的说唱怪才也算在其中，无论你想到他们给大麻爱好者创作的“How High”，还是他们高质量的合作专辑《Blackout!》，亦或是他们两人出众的现场感染力，这些都是说唱迷始终对于这两位艺人宠爱有加的原因，这也可以解释2009年年初当人们听说Redman和Method Man会带来《Blackout!第二季》时的激动心情。不过怀旧不代表一切，10年对于Hiphop世界来说恍如隔世，当时流行的音乐是否还能在如今掀起狂潮是放在Redman和Method Man面前的一个大大的问号。 　　不过这对Funky狂人显然不在乎时光的变迁，他们依然做自己的音乐，正如人们所预料的那样，《Blackout!第二季》中的音乐延续了上一季的风格，更形象点说，《Blackout 2》就像是对如今商业化Hiphop音乐竖起的中指。“We can ship gold, f**k one million”是两人在开场曲“B.O.2 (Intro)”中的宣言，也为专辑定下了不羁的基调。Keith Murray助阵的“Errbody Scream”让人想起了Def Squad时期的歌曲；“Dis Iz 4 All My Smokers”从标题里就能一目了然的看出这是“How High”的后续，也是Redman和Method Man的专辑中必收的曲目： With each having individual obligations all over the place, it took ten years for Method Man and Redman to record a follow-up to 1999's beloved Blackout!, but one listen and you'd think it had only been ten days. Interplay during the intro proves that none of the chemistry is lost, then the slow-grinding "I'm Dope Ni**a" declares that happy and horribly high days are here again, with mentions of Club Nouveau plus Tango & Cash putting a date stamp on the duo. Their fine vintage is displayed two tracks later when "Dangerous MCees" spits "Even Herbie Hancock know where to Rockit" over a beat that's identifiably Erick Sermon. It's topped by the Phyllis Hyman loop Pete Rock cuts for the preceding track, "A-Yo," a superior weekend anthem featuring Saukrates from Redman's Gilla House group. With the sound of the South having exploded since the first Blackout!, the hypnotic highlight "City Lights" with guest Bun B plus a UGK sample is identifiable as post-2000. Also of its time is the dreaded Auto-Tune device, which corrects some pitch here and there, although its polish is negated on "I Know Sumptn" by the very Redman lyric "Check my bowel baby/This is the mother load." Mentions of riding jet skis on land and all sorts of other absurdities sit next to innovative viewpoints on sleaze, then "Dis Iz 4 All My Smokers" does the weed song right as the blunt brothers roll over a DJ Scratch track that sounds heavily influenced by RZA. Speaking of Wu-Tang members, Raekwon and Ghostface appear on the key cut "Four Minutes to Lock Down," an intense barrage of Shaolin lyrics that helps anchor an album that's often just a party on wax. The original deserves the top spot, but think of this as the Godfather Part II of reckless boom-bap rap and you've got an idea of how well this Blackout! satisfies.