By Jason Birchmeier Mack 10 scales back his collaborative impulse on The Paper Route, the follow-up to The Recipe(1998), an album on which every song but one was a collaboration. The Paper Route is still laden with guest features, but at least there are a handful of solo performances (four out of 11 songs), so that Mack 10 doesn't seem like a guest on his own album. One of those solo performances, the album-opening "From tha Streetz," is a highlight, with an interpolation of Whodini's "Funky Beat" for its hook. Another, "Hustle Game," is also a highlight, driven by a laidback Easy Mo Bee production.