Reviewed by Steve Hayes

T-Bone brings renowned west coast/Latino flavours (eg, "Ride Wit Me" with a Snoop Dog flava and "Blazin Mics"). He also brings his classic rap double-timing ("Wipe Your Tears"). On this, his latest project, T-Bone serves up some old and new beats in a west-coast laid-back rider of an album. 'Bone-Appetit' is a showcase of T-Bone over the last six years and a glimpse into the future too. We find tracks from previous albums, brought together to give an all-round mix of T-Bone's lyrical skills and vibes. We start with the bassy and momentous "Follow T" which sets the tone for the album and drops a crunky club banger as T-Bone represents and leaves his calling card. Various issues are confronted, along with personal cries such as "Can I Live". T-Bone features some new tracks, including the outstanding hip-hop worship tune, "Sing Your Praise", mixing up various world influences in a Caribbean, Arabic and Latino fusion. This comes in English and Spanish versions, for completion. One of my favourite tracks is the downtempo "Wipe Your Tears" which really spoke to me and provides another hip-hop worship track. There are the usual great assortment of club bangers, such as "Let That Thang Go" and the more dirty south styled "Shake Ya Body". We even have humour with "Pentecostal Horse Racing". A clever touch (reminiscent of KJ-52?) is the excellent "Name Droppin" with T-Bone cramming dozens of Christian artists into a rap guaranteed to get Christian radio play.

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