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Feb 8, 2017It’s a supremely listenable album, loaded with comfort-food hip-hop fit for booming club sound systems and earbuds on the subway alike. It’s also Sean’s most cohesive, personal work to date.
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Feb 8, 2017Is it going to be the album of the year? No. But it’s a very high quality, and very enjoyable.
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Feb 13, 2017Big Sean rises to the occasion on I Decided., arguably the best album of his career, and one that secures his spot as one of the top five artists in hip-hop today.
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Feb 14, 2017While it's undoubtedly a solid addition to Sean's catalogue, at the end of I Decided. it's the flows and instrumentals that are left with the listener, having upstaged what Sean is actually trying to say.
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Feb 8, 2017Big Sean exhibits growth and wisdom on I Decided., and that's definitely worth a listen. This is a solid effort.
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Feb 7, 2017While I Decided. may not light up the club like his past efforts, it shines a different, more nurturing light onto deeper parts of his soul.
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Feb 8, 2017I Decided. is a fresh statement that proves Big Sean is continuing to evolve.
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Feb 7, 2017On his fourth studio album I Decided, he positions himself as hip-hop’s poster-boy for all of these qualities [hard work, sacrifice, persistence, gratitude], but in rapping about such unassailable ideas, he comes away with uninteresting results.
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Feb 9, 2017hile he become incrementally more skilled over the years, not much else has changed. Throughout I Decided., Sean conflates the passing of time with growth and progress. Nothing on I Decided., however, suggests that he has gained perspective worth sharing or to which he should devote a whole album.
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User score distribution:
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Positive: 77 out of 114
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Mixed: 31 out of 114
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Negative: 6 out of 114
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