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- Summary: The Wu-Tang Clan-member releases his fourth solo album featuring such artists as his fellow Wu-Tang Clan members, Jadakiss, Beanie Sigel, Lyfe Jennings, Styles P, Busta Rhymes, and Slick Rick.
- Record Label: EMI
- Genre(s): Rap
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 19 out of 19
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Mixed: 0 out of 19
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Negative: 0 out of 19
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Everything about Only Built 4 Cuban Linx Pt. II demands worship and solidifies Raekwon as one of history's best with a continuation that exceeds his original debut in every way imaginable.
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Fundamentally, though, the album is a wistful and occasionally melancholic one that is as consistently captivating in its lyrical content as it is wonderfully dark and eerily melodic in its composition and production.
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All hotly (strangely this descriptor seems almost an understatement) anticipated albums should deliver so profoundly.
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The album drags at points; with 22 tracks and a 70-minute runtime, some of this material would have been better off on a mixtape. But that’s a minor flaw in an otherwise superbly-executed gangster epic.
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Raekwon has not made a valid sequel to that classic--but he has quite validly added a couple hundred new bars to that performance.
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It doesn’t reflect a lack of evolution, or even a regression, but rather the completion of a circle--and probably a landing pad, even as the world continues to whiz by.
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Working almost like a glorified mixtape, many of the tracks bleed together or start mid-scene with field recordings of corner action. It adds to the feeling that you’ve dropped in on something important.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 31 out of 32
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Mixed: 0 out of 32
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Negative: 1 out of 32
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DumildeRSep 15, 2009
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Aug 18, 2010
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DeniseDSep 16, 2009Best of 2009 without a doubt.
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JamieJVSep 30, 2009The great album ! the best sequel to first work...the best real hip hop album of the year.
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AlexW.Nov 30, 2009Easily one of the best albums this year. be sure to cop the Wu-Massacre commin out Feb 9th 2010.
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MycroftWOct 7, 2009Deducted one point for the 14-year wait, other than that it's flawless.
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LennyM.Dec 7, 2009
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