Cookie: The Anthropological Mix Tape - Me'Shell NdegéOcello
Metascore
82 out of 100

Universal acclaim - based on 14 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 14
  3. Negative: 0 out of 14
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  1. Entertainment Weekly
    100
    Another set of songs that are political and unflinchingly personal, but still manage to entertain. [7 June 2002, p. 76]
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  2. Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
    91
    Without resorting to anything so obvious as a hook she manages to maintain continuity and interest over an hour-plus of poetry-with-funk.
  3. E! Online
    91
    Cookie drips with R&B, hip-hop, Latin grooves, experimental jazz, blues and techno tidbits for yummy multilayered goodness.
  4. The A.V. Club
    90
    Cookie is so frequently brilliant that its periodic missteps feel like integral parts of a grand design.

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User Score
9.2 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 5 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 3
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 3
  3. Negative: 0 out of 3
  1. SethB
    10
    Easily the best Urban record this year: If you like tight, deep lyrics or innovative bumpin' beats and jams then this record has it all! I disagree with the Rolling Stone critic about, "this is the record Prince keeps trying to make" but it has the same incredible feel of Sign Of The Times without sounding anything like Prince. … Full Review »
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