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- Summary: The debut album for the Miami-based artist features Lil Wayne, Nas and Rick Ross as guests.
- Record Label: Cash Money
- Genre(s): Pop, Rap
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Top Track
| Let It Rock | |
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| I see your dirty face High behind your collar What is done in vain Truth is hard to swallow So you pray to God To justify the way you live a lie Live... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Positive: 1 out of 9
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Mixed: 7 out of 9
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Negative: 1 out of 9
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Like Timbaland and the Neptunes before him, though, Rudolf's behind-the-scenes work only whetted his limelight appetite, so here he steps out with a weirdly infectious debut that mixes his rap-track know-how with his love of guitar-god theatrics.
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In the City offers good production, excellent melodies, and - of course - the same song, idea(s), and kinds of guest appearances many times over.
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Q MagazineRudolf's sound is his own on an album full of scarf-waving choruses, insistent hooks and surprisingly reflective lyrics. [Mar 2009, p.104]
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In the City gets by on hooks and hugeness, like an irony-free Andrew W.K., Timbaland working with Aerosmith, or a jaded version of the Jonas Brothers now willing to drop the F-bomb.
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Pop and R&B backroom boy steps into the spotlight.
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The rest of Rudolf's self-produced debut is a middling rock record dressed up in sleek digital clothes.
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In the City is proof that you can co-opt the most retarded aspects of 80s corporate rock and still not be any fun.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 1 out of 1
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Mixed: 0 out of 1
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Negative: 0 out of 1
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EdijsG.Feb 8, 2009
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