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Universal acclaim- based on 175 Ratings
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Positive: 154 out of 175
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Mixed: 9 out of 175
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Negative: 12 out of 175
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JamalS.Feb 16, 2007
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Awards & Rankings
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Hip Hop Is Dead is a lot like Nas himself: impossible not to admire, but hard to love.
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Here’s the thing about Nas’s old-fashioned approach to hip-hop: It still works.
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More than Illmatic, it represents the real Nas-- not the ideal-- the MC with all the skill, all the rhymes, and all the insight who sabotaged himself with bad decisions.