Kamaal The Abstract
by Q-Tip
  • Record Label: Battery
  • Release Date: Sep 15, 2009
User Score
8.6

Universal acclaim- based on 11 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 11
  3. Negative: 1 out of 11

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  1. Marko
    Oct 14, 2009
    10
    Another example why pitchfork should never review anything outside of their hipster comfort level.
  2. BIGMAN22
    Apr 20, 2016
    10
    different and unique. Q tips lyricism and production on here is topnotch, like his past album this is yet another superb piece of work by him. classic.

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Metascore
78

Generally favorable reviews - based on 13 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 13
  3. Negative: 0 out of 13
  1. MSN Consumer Guide (Robert Christgau)
    Feb 23, 2011
    67
    Buried at Track 7, the developed rhyme, unkiltered time, unsettling keyboards, and Kenny Garrett sax coda of "Abstractionisms" deliver what the flowery "Caring" and the endless "Do You Dig U?" emphatically do not: the "brand new sound" the finale only brags about.
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  2. AllMusic
    90
    This wasn't the kind of record that lights up the charts--which could account for the reason it didn't appear on the shelves in late April 2002, as expected, and only earned an official release in 2009--but in many ways it's superior to the released Amplified.
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  3. Billboard
    80
    Soulful and organic, with roots in jazz and funk, Kamaal the Abstract finds Q-Tip not only rhyming in his trademark nasal cadence, but also singing--and surprisingly well to boot.
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