God Forgives, I Don't
- Rick Ross
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Jul 31, 201291God Forgives is the first album that really feels like it was made by a boss.
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Aug 7, 201280While some tracks may feel more like Bay and Ratner, Ross more often than not hits his mark.
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Aug 1, 201280With its share of both musical indulgence and serious self-reflection, it's an album as big and sturdy as the man behind it.
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Aug 1, 201280If Teflon Don was a buffet-style feast with deluxe entrées laid out for the listeners, God Forgives, I Don't is a full-course dinner that starts with a plate of bruschetta and ends with a zeppole.
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Jul 31, 201280This album [is] unabashedly fun and very easy to listen to.
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Jul 30, 201280The beats are huge, varied enough that they don't become tedious, and the guest talent is deep and broadly selected.
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Jul 30, 201280All of it works, there's plenty of ambition with little over-reaching, and the most striking bits of the album are striking for unexpected reasons.
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Jul 30, 201280There are times when God Forgives is as engrossing and surprising as rap can be.
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Jul 30, 201280Bold and indulgent, God Forgives, I Don't embodies why Rick Ross has become a fixture that listeners can depend on, as well as an executive who can strategize success for not only himself but others around him.
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Jul 31, 201275The rapper's midair brush with death only intensified his hunger. On this commanding, complicated album, he wants more out of more.
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Dec 5, 201270Lyrically it is all shamelessly hollow, but Ross's album is seductively swish, its production sophisticated and strings and saxophone abound. [Oct 2012, p.75]
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Aug 16, 201270God Forgives' best moments... are fine examples of how big-budget rap can skilfully avoid crass clichés, and even convey no little emotion.
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Aug 10, 201270God Forgives is a comedown--sporadically introspective, occasionally rousing, and sort of without purpose.
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Jul 31, 201270While not as electrifying as "Teflon Don," this 70-minute set deftly mixes grandiose gestures and ominous bravado.
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Jul 31, 201270Skip the umpteenth "BMF" re-treads and the album's soggy R&B bottom quarter and there's much to savour.
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Jul 30, 201268There is still some great music on God Forgives, but it is somewhat overshadowed by higher-profile misfires.
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Aug 7, 201267Though it's solid enough to maintain Ross' reputation as one of commercial rap's most reliable album artists, God Forgives rarely feels like an event, and by the standards of a rapper who once threw a press conference in his own honor, that makes it a minor disappointment.
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Aug 13, 201265God Forgives, I Don't is slick, large, and sounds like wealth.
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Aug 21, 201260It's thrilling. It's pantomime. It's what Ross does best.
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Aug 1, 201260God Forgives is consistently, pleasantly underwhelming: the plodding R&B-rooted efforts aside, there's nothing much to complain about.
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Aug 8, 201250It's definitely a disappointment that Ross seems to be coasting through most of this hour-long production since a coasting Ross is generally not a Ross you'd want to be around.
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Aug 8, 201250All the grandiose songs are clumped together in the album's first half, while "Hold Me Back", "911" (an ode to Porsche, not emergency workers) and lead single "So Sophisticated" represent the trap sound that propelled Rich Forever into redundancy.
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Aug 2, 201240The album's production work is predictable, and its high-concept narratives (Hold Me Back, Diced Pineapples) are painfully over thought.
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Aug 1, 201240Even though Mr. Ross's rapping is prime, it isn't enough to carry this album. Just at the moment that he's finally not underrated, he has underdelivered.