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- Summary: The Brooklyn-born hip-hop artist's third album features such guests as UGK, Justin Timberlake and Norah Jones.
- Record Label: Warner Bros/Wea
- Genre(s): Rap
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Yeah, special dedication I'm sending this one out to you And you and you and you I said to you and you and you She cold blooded, I love how we... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Positive: 14 out of 22
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Mixed: 8 out of 22
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Entertainment WeeklyA procession of sharp cuts. [24 Aug 2007, p.133]
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Talib Kweli has made the career-defining work that his fans have been expecting for nearly a decade.
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The production work throughout provides a head-bobbing, arm-waving backdrop to Kweli’s lyrical genius, exactly as it should.
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There are enough different feels and flows to dazzle listeners with Kweli's dexterity, but some judicious editing could have produced something perhaps even more impressive.
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Kweli's collaborative work has set the bar so high that his solo efforts routinely fail to meet these exalted expectations.
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He's back on his own terms, those of the earnest hyper-intelligent bookworm who won the plaudits of Jay-Z and 50 Cent, and sounding a lot more comfortable, with 'Hostile Gospel' and 'Say Something' re-staking a claim for the hip hop high ground over beats that are soulful and sonically coherent.
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Ear Drum is his sprawling, messy 2007 manifesto, loaded with rhymes that take weeks to unpack, to say nothing of the bizarre diversity of producers and guests.
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Positive: 10 out of 10
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Mixed: 0 out of 10
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KyleZ.Sep 11, 2007Album of the year. Hands down. Production from long time partner Hi-Tek on More or Less is phenomenal. The quintessential Hip-Hop album.
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moem.Aug 27, 2007Classic record.
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EdwardHSep 11, 2007
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TroyMAug 22, 2007
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spookyxAug 23, 2007Solid from begining to end
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[Anonymous]Aug 23, 2007A huge step up from his last 'legit' album, The Beautiful Struggle, although not quite at Reflection Eternal level.
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BrandonAug 26, 2007Refreshing. If you're tired of the same ol' same ol'....get this album.
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