Godfather Buried Alive (2004)

Bad Boy artist Shyne is currently serving a 10-year sentence from a 1999 felony shooting charge, Shyne recorded Godfather Buried Alive in the months leading up to his incarceration -- though the disc's highlight, the seething ''For the Record,'' sounds like it was captured via phone from his cellblock: ''This jail only made me much more ruthless,'' he spits. Shyne's Tupac-esque reflections on honor and mortality are penetrating, and suggest there are greater meditations yet to be unleashed.