534 (2005)

You know a rapper's future is in trouble when he gets arrested for a bar brawl two weeks before his CD drops, and hardly anyone notices — or cares. The only thing more embarrassing for Brooklyn's Memphis Bleek on 534 is that he's absent from his fourth CD's finest track, ''Dear Summer,'' a Just Blaze-produced hip-hop/soul jam that finds Jay-Z passing the torch to his consistently unimaginative apprentice before leaving him to limp across an uneven mix of contrived party songs and well-produced yet lyrically insipid street tales.