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- Summary: Brooklyn-based rapper returns with his fourth album of raw emotion and dark, heavy beats.
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- Record Label: Anticon
- Genre(s): Rap
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Positive: 9 out of 15
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Mixed: 6 out of 15
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Feb 14, 2011While casual listeners may be left scratching their heads a time too often for their liking, connoisseurs of pure MCing will find plenty to admire in Beans' craftsmanship, and long time fans of the Consortium will likely add this project to their collections with no regrets.
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Feb 15, 2011Ambitious, and brilliant, fourth LP from the New York MC.
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Feb 15, 2011It's a prickly landscape as off-kilter sounds meet off-kilter ideas, all as Beans does the relentless, stern delivery thing, kicking it poetry slam style and giving listeners no easy hook to hold onto as the avant whirlwind spins.
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Feb 11, 2011Beans' avalanche of verbiage can obscure his nuances, but a cast of collaborators--disco evangelist In Flagranti, electro-hop eccentric Tobacco, psychedelic beat guru Four Tet, even Interpol's Sam Fogarino--burnish his rhyme schemes into high-tech funk.
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Mar 17, 2011It's a handful, but like fellow acrobat Doom's recent efforts, Beans'll keep you on your toes.
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Q MagazineMar 29, 2011Beans is also in eclectic mood, delivering word association freestyles over a dizzying array of instrumental backdrops. [Mar 2011, p.101]
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Feb 28, 2011While all the productions presented on End It All show real depth and attention to detail – like most releases associated with Anti-Pop Consortium – the words leave a bitter taste and the faint suggestion that Beans is way better with APC than without.
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May 12, 2011
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