Let Me Explain

Usually when a standup comedy concert film comes with a soundtrack it's a direct rip of the comedian's performance, but not so with Kevin Hart's Let Me Explain. There's just the littlest bit of Hart's concert performance, and it's mostly the bit that transfers the theater audience from backstage party to the stage, but past that, this is a collection of Hart's recent favorite hip-hop tracks, a perfectly acceptable thing to do in a world of "music from and inspired by the film" soundtracks. Think of him as a street-level, younger, and more forward-thinking version of Tyler Perry and the whole thing plays out as a compilation with Hart's great taste in control. The opening title track/posse cut is pleasingly golden age with the killer trio of Snoop Dogg, Erick Sermon, and Method Man proving they still know how to party, while later there's the veteran rapper Krayzie Bone, bringing that Bone Thugs quickness to the aptly titled Southern-flavored stomper "I'm a Monster." Most everything els