The soundtrack album to the 2002 film about a hip-hop-centered romance has 15 songs by a wide variety of the music´s veterans and more recently emerged talents. Mary J. Blige, Erykah Badu, and Eric B. Rakim are some of the better-known contributors on a compilation that mixes neo-soul and harder hip-hop styles. In the neo-soul bag, there´s Jill Scott, whose romantic "Easy Conversation" is one of the better selections. Jazz/R&B crossover singer Cassandra Wilson covers Cyndi Lauper´s "Time After Time," while the Roots offer some of the harder beats and scratching on the remix of "Act Too (Love of My Life)." On the whole it´s an adequate sampler of some early 21st century hip-hop sounds, leaning toward the more pop-accessible segment of the genre.