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Generally favorable reviews - based on 26 Critics What's this?

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Universal acclaim- based on 4 Ratings

  • Summary: The rap outfit's first album since 1996's 'Stakes Is High' is the first in a planned trilogy.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 22 out of 26
  2. Negative: 1 out of 26
  1. 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. The grooves are righteous and the vibe is right.
  3. The first De La Soul full-length lacking a consistent vibe throughout... [#147, p.81]
  4. 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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Score distribution:
  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
  2. DannyD
    10
    This sh_t is rockin

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