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Universal acclaim- based on 11 Ratings
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MarkoOct 14, 2009Another example why pitchfork should never review anything outside of their hipster comfort level.
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Apr 20, 2016different 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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Feb 23, 2011Buried 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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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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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.