This soundtrack album for the Martin Lawrence cop comedy is a consistently good party disc. In addition to providing Jay-Z with yet another anthemic 1999 smash, Blue Streak brings forth more than solid work from hit-or-miss artists such as Kelly Price and introduces a couple of names to watch. Among the latter, Rehab's cold-eyed dissection of ghetto fabulousness, "Gimme My Money," is more down-to-earth than most such songs. In fact, much of the CD stands as a multivoice critique of the gangsta life and its effects on male-female relationships; Price's "While You Were Gone" could be an answer to Wyclef Jean's dealer apologia "Gone Till November." Blue Streak is a smart, significant compilation.

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