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Aug 7, 2012While some tracks may feel more like Bay and Ratner, Ross more often than not hits his mark.
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Jul 30, 2012All 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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Aug 16, 2012God 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 1, 2012God Forgives is consistently, pleasantly underwhelming: the plodding R&B-rooted efforts aside, there's nothing much to complain about.
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Jul 31, 2012While not as electrifying as "Teflon Don," this 70-minute set deftly mixes grandiose gestures and ominous bravado.
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Aug 1, 2012With 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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Jul 31, 2012God Forgives is the first album that really feels like it was made by a boss.
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Jul 31, 2012Skip 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, 2012Bold 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, 2012The 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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Aug 21, 2012It's thrilling. It's pantomime. It's what Ross does best.
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Aug 2, 2012The album's production work is predictable, and its high-concept narratives (Hold Me Back, Diced Pineapples) are painfully over thought.
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Jul 30, 2012There is still some great music on God Forgives, but it is somewhat overshadowed by higher-profile misfires.
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Aug 8, 2012It'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, 2012All 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 13, 2012God Forgives, I Don't is slick, large, and sounds like wealth.
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Jul 31, 2012This album [is] unabashedly fun and very easy to listen to.
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Jul 30, 2012There are times when God Forgives is as engrossing and surprising as rap can be.
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Jul 30, 2012The beats are huge, varied enough that they don't become tedious, and the guest talent is deep and broadly selected.
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Aug 10, 2012God Forgives is a comedown--sporadically introspective, occasionally rousing, and sort of without purpose.
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Aug 7, 2012Though 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 1, 2012Even 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.
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The WireDec 5, 2012Lyrically 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 1, 2012If 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.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 38 out of 72
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Mixed: 17 out of 72
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Negative: 17 out of 72
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