In Brief

Various artists, “Jason’s Lyric” soundtrack, Mercury * 1/2 . Weed out the routine rap and corny R&B; ballads and there’s not much good music left on this 20-tune soundtrack. Nearly all the quality songs are done by the biggest stars--Scarface, Oleta Adams, LL Cool J and Ahmad. But an unknown--the vocal group B.M.U.--takes best song honors with the foot-stompin’ R&B;/gospel tune “U Will Know.”

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