Looking at sin as an addiction and seeing the seven-step recovery program as a path to God, Christian rapper Swoope gets conceptual on his sophomore release, and all the ambition does him good. Sinema isn't an overwritten album, even when the rapper has been busier with his pen, filling this story of empty success and forgotten friends with long verses and less hooky choruses. Still, standout numbers like "LSD" -- which stands for love, sex, death -- stick to the bones more than the songs on his debut, while "Before Goodnight" is one of the most complex songs in the man's songbook, and also one of his best. Check "Beauty and the Beast " for that debut album excitement, then get ready to gasp at the rest while dropping an occasional "my, how he's grown." Tedashii, Christon Gray, Sho Baraka, and other fine guests contribute to this movie on wax/CD/digital whatnot.