Golden Era - Del the Funky Homosapien
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  • Summary: The Oakland, California-born rapper's latest album is the conclusion of a trilogy that included 2009's Funk Man and Automatic Statik.

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  1. Positive: 6 out of 8
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  1. Dusted Magazine
    Apr 26, 2011
    90
    Golden Era, the smartest, funniest, most urgent hip hop joint of '11 by far.
  2. HipHopDX
    Apr 26, 2011
    80
    In sum, Golden Era is an extremely tight, solid package, clocking in at less than 40 minutes through ten tracks.
  3. All Music Guide
    Apr 26, 2011
    80
    Just two-and-a-half hours and 34 tracks (including two hidden bonuses at the end of the third disc) of solid rhyming and beatmaking, most of them excellent, some of them brilliant, a handful of them merely good. That's quite a batting average.
  4. PopMatters
    Jul 13, 2011
    60
    Regardless of if you were hoping for more from Del in his latest offering, Golden Era is a good summer album and a reminder of all of the things you loved about hip-hop growing up.

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  1. GottFaust
    10
    Del does it again. He continues to amaze with his mastery of complex rhyming schemes and how effortlessly he flows between multiple schemes in each track. The production is what we've come to expect from his last few albums: low-fi and heavy, but funky and fitting. With an genre currently filled with poor rhymes, bad beats, and even worse subject matter ("look how big my house is, how many blood diamonds I can plaster all over my body, and how much I can spend on a single pair of shoes.") I respect Del for doing nothing less than "keeping it real."… Collapse

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