** 1/2 Flesh-N-Bone, “5th Dog Let Loose,” Mo Thugs/KOCH.

With his signature, seemingly paradoxical mix of spirituality and shootouts, this Bone Thugs-N-Harmony affiliate battles good and evil throughout his second album. The velvet-voiced rapper, who was sentenced last month in Los Angeles to an 11-year prison term for threatening a man with an assault rifle, employs a rapid-fire delivery that works well with the serene music accompanying him on most of the cuts. Stronger beats would have made for more satisfying result.

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