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  • Summary: The rap outfit's first album since 1996's 'Stakes Is High' is the first in a planned trilogy.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 22 out of 26
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 26
  3. Negative: 1 out of 26
  1. Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
    91
    The lyrics are intelligent of course, clever and moral and street-conscious and just gnomic enough, but their art is in their beats and flow and tunes too.
  2. Alternative Press
    60
    The first De La Soul full-length lacking a consistent vibe throughout... [#147, p.81]
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  3. The Wire
    30
    Mosaic Thump lives up to its name only too well, displaying a fragmentary mess of rhyming schemes, contributing artists and leaden beats. [#199, p.45]
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  1. Positive: 3 out of 3
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 3
  3. Negative: 0 out of 3
  1. NseE.
    10
    Wow! From 'The art of getting jumped', 'All good', etc, etc, the boys are back showing that they are miles ahead of anything out there. Great stuff. I listen to it over and over and over.… Expand
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  2. DannyD
    10
    This sh_t is rockin
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