This set of "13 new songs"—that's what the sticker Ruthless put on initial pressings declared—is filled with titles that are familiar to Bone-loving message-board trollers and Internet traders, but somewhere along the way from leak to official release, the beats changed, often for the worse.

Take the amateurish beat on "Sweet Jane," which is a serious step down from the leaked version, or "Wildin'," where the music and lyrics just refuse to connect.

Steve 'Flash' Juon of RapReviews gave the album 7 and a half stars out of 10, stating "In the end what's going on here is perfectly obvious after adding all these clues up and listening to songs on T.H.U.G.S.

Quite simply this is a desperate Ruthless Records attempting to cash in on all of the available Bone Thugs material they have they could dig up out the vaults or remix to release.

As such it's probably not entirely ethical to support an album like T.H.U.G.S., especially as it's likely none of the rappers involved will ever see a dime from it, and yet songs like the DJ Uneek produced "Everyday Thugs" and Rick Rock's "Not That Nigga" are the kind of classic smooth Bone shit fans have come to know and love, and for nostalgia's sake it is good to hear Bizzy reunited with his comrades.