“After 1999's lackluster *Immobilarity*, Raekwon's third and latest full-length has a lot of making up to do. However, the lack of name producers (one of the record's contributors disparagingly calls himself Crummie Beats) and the absence of RZA from the album credits seemingly dooms *The Lex Diamond Story* to mediocrity from the start. Good news, though: Raekwon thankfully swerves around the R&B; ”
