Blacc Hollywood
by Wiz Khalifa
  • Record Label: Atlantic
  • Release Date: Aug 19, 2014
Metascore
54

Mixed or average reviews - based on 16 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 11 out of 16
  3. Negative: 2 out of 16
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  1. XXL
    Aug 22, 2014
    60
    The lyrics on this album are more of the same.
  2. HipHopDX
    Aug 18, 2014
    60
    While the misses hold Blacc Hollywood back from being great, Wiz still reminds listeners that regardless of what they’re looking for, he’s capable of providing.
  3. Exclaim
    Aug 15, 2014
    60
    Blacc Hollywood, an LP titled like it might bring some overarching theme, is the audio equivalent of the Transformers quadrilogy: a series of in-your-face, mass-appeal blockbusters that lure crowds and teach them nothing.
  5. NOW Magazine
    Aug 15, 2014
    60
    Wiz has never shied away from top-40-baiting tunes many rappers eschew, and he’s crafted a few more on Blacc Hollywood with varying degrees of success.
  6. The Guardian
    Aug 15, 2014
    60
    Khalifa sounds at his best when he sticks to his formula, instead of trying to tap into the (increasingly lucrative) rapper-with-a-heart-of-gold market.
  7. Pitchfork
    Aug 29, 2014
    56
    Melodies coast, but they don’t always stick; everything’s too mannered, too clean, and the album is marred by a clinicality further punctuated by its bonus tracks.
  8. PopMatters
    Sep 4, 2014
    50
    If you’re in it for the live-it-up-till-morning jams (and they are entertaining), then you’re going to be spinning this record at plenty of house parties. But artistically speaking, the album isn’t a progression of the rapper’s career; it’s content to stay on the same eternally- stoned playing field as 2012’s O.N.I.F.C.
  9. Consequence
    Aug 20, 2014
    50
    Hollywood is an improvement over 2012’s O.N.I.F.C., but it serves an overly similar purpose.
  10. Spin
    Aug 19, 2014
    50
    The record is 13 tracks long, sounds nice sometimes, and features Ty$, Juicy J, Project Pat, Curren$y, Chevy Woods, and Nicki Minaj, so it doesn't overstay its welcome and has decent taste in guests.
  11. New York Daily News (Jim Faber)
    Aug 19, 2014
    40
    Every sign of the street has been gentrified, though the weed references never cease.
  12. Slant Magazine
    Aug 19, 2014
    40
    This sense of puzzled division remains the only really interesting thing about Blacc Hollywood, an album that's remarkable only as a ghostly portrait of a half-formed figure prowling the fringes of success.

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User Score
5.4

Mixed or average reviews- based on 72 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 30 out of 72
  2. Mixed: 23 out of 72
  3. Negative: 19 out of 72
  1. NazAw
    Aug 20, 2014
    4
    Wiz Khalifa seems to be one of the most genuine in the industry, and the positive energy surrounding the music is loving, but the experienceWiz Khalifa seems to be one of the most genuine in the industry, and the positive energy surrounding the music is loving, but the experience itself is just plain boring and repetitive on "Blacc Hollywood".

    From themes to production, to Wiz struggle with bars, it varies as little as Kanye's interviews lately. Though continuing from track "The Sleaze", it leaps higher than ever, serving some fresh and more ear-grabbing hooks and raps than to say.. the two/thirds. But even so, appearing on track nine of an album of thirteen it is not enough when the highlights comes up so late in. And while Wiz probably wont (at this point) top the brilliance and cohesion of "Kush & Orange Juice", on the debut album the following singles, at least showed his charm and some catchy pop tunes.
    "House In The Hills" is wonderful compared to a handful, featuring some afro influenced production and introspective lyrics of his life- lifestyle[s] and characteristics people like to jab on to him. "Promises" is him singing (kind of?), actually doing the better job here than his rapping, almost asking myself "why not more?" when most is rambling of rap-speak, sing-song-rapping with production instead at the end being the more attractive attraction. But the only replay-valued tracks really are the ones left of off the standard LP.
    Wiz has shown that he is capable of making an album, but this time, the rhymes and songs are not memorable, just worn off, literally, as the word itself being thrown into this album.
    The songcrafting is less joyful and more of a hashtag rap on "Blacc Hollywood". The mixtapes prior to this, in my opinion were somewhat enjoyable, fun and original to his sound, the trap/club project "Blacc Hollywood" may not be something already too familiar to Wiz' catalogue, sonically, and that is pretty much the lacking.. Wiz does not sound witty nor smooth nor creative and new over these instrumentals as others already mastering it.
    This is pretty much background music, and it is fine as that so long beats slaps, cause other than that digging deeply in is where you find nothing much.    … Full Review »
  2. TNTTheNextTune
    Aug 19, 2014
    7
    Three months after the release of 28 Grams, Wiz Khalifa releases a new album called Blacc Hollywood

    The album opens up with “Hope”, a nice    Three months after the release of 28 Grams, Wiz Khalifa releases a new album called Blacc Hollywood

    The album opens up with “Hope”, a nice track with Ty Dolla $ign with a very catchy and radio-friendly hook.
    The second track is the already well-known hit “We Dem Boyz”, in my opinion one of the less inspired tracks on this LP.
    “Promises” is the first track with pop influences on the album and as well one of the best songs.
    “KK” is one of the single released from Blacc Hollywood, a stoner-anthem with Project Pat and Juicy J to support him. On the Curren$y-featured “House in the Hills”, Wiz looks back at his career in one of the most introspective songs on the album.
    “Ass Drop” is a great club banger with a not as good hook that slightly ruins the song. “Raw” is a trap song that bites A$AP Ferg style in a non-original way.
    The last tracks are filler and forgettable. I expected more from the collaboration with Nicki Minaj “True Colors”, which sounds off and boring.
    The DJ Mustard-produced bonus track “You and Your Friends” is way catchier and even if it didn’t peak high on the charts, it’s a nice summer anthem.
    Blacc Hollywood has nice but also boring moments and it’s not very cohesive. It sounds like a compilation of hit songs.
    This album flows better than his last projects, if you like Wiz Khalifa, you’ll undoubtedly like this album.

    For more reviews and hip-hop/R&B news, tune on The Next Tune on Facebook    … Full Review »
  3. MaxIndieGames
    Jul 1, 2015
    10
    It's a good album, for someone who "just wants to listen to music" and doesn't care about lyrics.
    And even with the lyrics being bad, Cameron    It's a good album, for someone who "just wants to listen to music" and doesn't care about lyrics.
    And even with the lyrics being bad, Cameron still talks about the things he does, cares/cares not about and enjoys and expresses who he is, what he does, why he does it and so-forth, and isn't that what we want our rappers to do? To be who they are?    … Full Review »
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