NOT one for the feint-hearted, The Best of N.E.R.D will certainly get your pulse racing.

Pharrell Williams, Chad Hugo and Shae Haley lay down some cracking beats that will pump you up for anything.

Truth or Dare was my favourite of the album. It runs along the same vein as Three Lions On a Shirt or Eminem’s Lose Yourself - the kind of song you can imagine being played before a football match to motivate yourself into giving a great performance.

I also remember buying the Fly or Die album in 2004, so I was already a massive fan of Maybe and Fly or Die.

My only problem is that this ‘Best Of’ is the accumulation of only two other albums and two B-sides - I always think that nobody should release a CD like this unless they’ve had at least four or five big albums.

The language is coarse in places, but if you’re a fan of the hip hop, pop, funk stars then I think that is to be expected.