Playing With Fire
by Kevin Federline
User Score
2.1

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 398 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 81 out of 398
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 398
  3. Negative: 311 out of 398

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  1. JudyH
    Dec 6, 2006
    0
    without comments
  2. AnnH
    Dec 6, 2006
    0
    "Borat" . . . I laughed out loud at that comment. Rap is seldom quality music, making this album the lowest of the low.
  3. BobK
    Dec 6, 2006
    0
    Takes the most commercialized forms of rap music and slaps them all together, then tops it all off with his pretentious, self-absorbed lyricisms that clearly exaggerate his proposed "greatness." Awful CD
  4. FlavaFlav
    Dec 3, 2006
    0
    No booooyyeeee!!
  5. Skullhead
    Dec 2, 2006
    0
    I haven't listened to this cuz i know this album sucks big time and k-fed is a big loser
  6. DaGreatWhatItDo
    Dec 2, 2006
    0
    WACK. Hey Kevvy - Pull your d1ck out of Brittney and work a little more on your rhymes before you press them in plastic...
  7. Stan
    Nov 29, 2006
    0
    move aside John Edward - this guy is now the biggest douche in the universe, with mister B (see his review here) as a close second.
  8. MannyZ
    Nov 29, 2006
    0
    Man you suck. I can cough up better rhymes when I take a shit (No Lie, I'm serious)
  9. danderson
    Nov 29, 2006
    0
    this guy shouldve shot himself for even considerin releasin dat damn album
  10. CameronC
    Nov 27, 2006
    0
    Worst rap cd i've ever heard. quite an accomplishment
  11. Ian
    Nov 27, 2006
    0
    Well, after having the bravery to listen to one track while occupied, the other two I could not get through. The beats sounded like garbage and his lyrical flow was like mixing molasses and oil with water. He should be banned from trying to rap.....PERMANENTLY!
  12. BiddyfromDonegal
    Nov 27, 2006
    0
    K-Fed made me so wet I slipped on the new tiles and put out my hip
  13. KurtC
    Nov 26, 2006
    0
    MY EARS! MY EARS! AAAAAH!
  14. RudyL
    Nov 26, 2006
    0
    Here's my one word review: CRAP.
  15. emmanuel
    Nov 26, 2006
    0
    a disaster...music like this should be illegal
  16. JoeBlow
    Nov 25, 2006
    0
    Worst. Album. Ever.
  17. AdrianR
    Nov 25, 2006
    0
    The fact that this CD can get ratings greater than 5/10 from more than just fluke and drunkenness is statistical proof that one can never trust what any human critic says ever again.
  18. BritneyS.
    Nov 24, 2006
    0
    lol gg moron. No more poon for you.
  19. SteveL
    Nov 24, 2006
    0
    I didn't listen to this.
  20. NickY
    Nov 23, 2006
    0
    Those positive user reviews sound so sincere and heartfelt...not. It's sad that anyone would even bother paying people to astroturf for this pathetic record.
  21. bobp
    Nov 22, 2006
    1
    Not that bad - I give it a 1. It's got a moment or two in there... It's a phenomenon of sorts.. but, really Britney's cR@p got produced - why not his?
  22. RuiS
    Nov 22, 2006
    0
    what happens when you play with fire? horrible.
  23. ColinB
    Nov 20, 2006
    0
    On what day did God create Kevin Federline, and couldn't he have rested on that day too?
  24. Nick
    Nov 20, 2006
    0
    if i were britney i would kill myself or him or at least never EVER go out in public again.. like is he even serious? how couldnt he even know that he sucks soooooo bad?.. does he just think ppl will think hes cool and buy the album bc hes married brittney?
  25. BruceR
    Nov 20, 2006
    0
    Fed Ex over and out.
  26. honestpolicy
    Nov 20, 2006
    0
    so bad that no one should ever have to suffer through this garbage. if you are EVEN considering it- death will be more fun... and cooler.
  27. John
    Nov 20, 2006
    0
    It's just so stupid. Period. So very stupid. Embarassing for him, I'm sure.
  28. MadelineH
    Nov 18, 2006
    0
    K-Fed??? HaHa. I coulndt believe it when i saw lose control debut on The Teen Choice Awards. I still can't.
  29. josema
    Nov 18, 2006
    0
    i can't believe this guy got a record deal. This is a true example about how music has hit rock bottom nowadays. i hope mr. federline reconsiders about trying to become a ''rapper''. give us a break!
  30. David
    Nov 18, 2006
    0
    Like anyone other than a mental midget would give it a higher rating
  31. B.Bauls
    Nov 17, 2006
    0
    This is the first time an album has actually made me laugh so hard I woke up sore the next day. Doctors should prescribe this album to people suffering from clinical depression. Then again, it just might make you want to kill yourself.
  32. RickR
    Nov 17, 2006
    3
    Well... it's not that bad. Not that's it's any good either. Kind of enjoyable but the novelty quickly wears off. Looking for dumb celebrity music? Might as well try Paris Hilton's album which is a whole lot better and nicer to listen to.
  33. JamesT.Kirk
    Nov 16, 2006
    0
    Captain's log, stardate 9522.6: I've never trusted white boy rappers, and I never will. I could never forgive them for the death of my culture. It seems to me our mission to listen to halfway decent rap while escorting the Chancellor of the Klingon High Council to a peace summit is problematic at best. Spock says this could be an historic occasion, and I'd like to believe Captain's log, stardate 9522.6: I've never trusted white boy rappers, and I never will. I could never forgive them for the death of my culture. It seems to me our mission to listen to halfway decent rap while escorting the Chancellor of the Klingon High Council to a peace summit is problematic at best. Spock says this could be an historic occasion, and I'd like to believe him, but how on Earth can a redneck this awful at everything he does release an album and get to Brittany before me?… Expand
  34. grega
    Nov 16, 2006
    0
    Such a letdown sadly.
  35. TruthBeTold
    Nov 15, 2006
    0
    Garbage, pure and simple. This is a mockery of everyone in the music business.
  36. haydesigner
    Nov 15, 2006
    1
    You'd think it couldn't be that bad... that eveyone was just piling on because of who he is. Well it is that bad. Really, really bad.
  37. m898
    Nov 15, 2006
    1
    Haha. the 2 people below me are serious? i didn't know that middle america manifest was about hard times like "smokin' marijuana", or ''10 G's in my pocket, 5 in my hand...'' and ''fill[ing] the Lamborghini up with shopping bags,'' oh i feel soo bad for him! he seems to be reallly strugling. Talentless guys like this show that if you Haha. the 2 people below me are serious? i didn't know that middle america manifest was about hard times like "smokin' marijuana", or ''10 G's in my pocket, 5 in my hand...'' and ''fill[ing] the Lamborghini up with shopping bags,'' oh i feel soo bad for him! he seems to be reallly strugling. Talentless guys like this show that if you have money, you can get anything. and that bands and groups with actual talent have to work even harder to get a major label. thank GOD britney dumped him. hopefully he'll run out of money and we'll never see his face on an album cover again!… Expand
  38. kfed
    Nov 14, 2006
    0
    yo this is a sick album.
  39. [Anonymous]
    Nov 13, 2006
    0
    Congratualtions Limp Bizkit you no longer have the worst album of this decade.
  40. W0nder
    Nov 13, 2006
    0
    Please Democrats, let your first action in power be the prohibition of this CD...
  41. ToddW
    Nov 13, 2006
    0
    I guess I'll add my score to the Legions of Zeroes. This guy is the human representation of everything that is wrong with our popular culture. A total no-talent, and I'm being kind, the only reason he got in the door of a recording studio was because of his ex-wife, another staggering waste of oxygen. Our airwaves are no longer priveleged for the talented and deserving. I guess I'll add my score to the Legions of Zeroes. This guy is the human representation of everything that is wrong with our popular culture. A total no-talent, and I'm being kind, the only reason he got in the door of a recording studio was because of his ex-wife, another staggering waste of oxygen. Our airwaves are no longer priveleged for the talented and deserving. They've become the sanctuary of the sheep who exalt the refuse of American Idol Nation, and this guy doesn't even qualify on that account. To even define what he does as "music" is to truly play with fire. Maybe some clueless music industry executive will wake up long enough from reading the stock page to smell just how bad the Sewerstream stinks and pull this slug's recording contract. Then he or she might focus on doing to Brittany what she did to this Warholian nightmare. Like lawyers at the bottom of the ocean, it would be a good start.… Expand
  42. FargoH
    Nov 12, 2006
    0
    Wow. This was craptacular.
  43. CedricJ
    Nov 12, 2006
    0
    The best album from a KFC assistant manager turned back-up dancer turned husband to white trash turned rapper turned WWF star you'll hear this year!
  44. AlexB
    Nov 12, 2006
    0
    If it wasn't for Britney's money, would we even be rating this album? Even when her talentless career is in hiatus, she still finds a way to ensure that America is subjected to awful "music". Pitiful.
  45. ChrisW
    Nov 12, 2006
    0
    Terrible... as bad as Diddy's new album. All right maybe that's not fair to K-Fed... as bad as Flavor Flav's is more like it.
  46. JohnD
    Nov 11, 2006
    0
    Should stand as an achievement alongside OK Computer, Kid A, Dark Side of the Moon, It Takes A Nation Of Millions To...ah, fuck it.
  47. Joe
    Nov 11, 2006
    0
    Well, you know what they say...when you play with fire, you're bound to get burned. In other words, if you listen to this album, your soul will suffer third-degree burns. Congratulations, KFed. You've made the worst album these ears have ever heard. Compared to this guy, Fred Durst is Tupac and Vanilla Ice is Biggie Smalls.
  48. MattD.
    Nov 11, 2006
    0
    What Eminem did for white rappers, Federline sets them back just as much.
  49. K.Young
    Nov 11, 2006
    0
    Simply Awful.
  50. NathanS
    Nov 11, 2006
    0
    Fed-ex (as he is now appropriately being called), is a waste of everyone's time. Please people, make him flop, stop talking about him, and perhaps, just maybe, he'll go away. This isn't even intriguingly bad; it's not even laughable. I think the worst part of an album like this is how he casually utters blasphemy in the lines of "Like Jesus in every way/I'm Fed-ex (as he is now appropriately being called), is a waste of everyone's time. Please people, make him flop, stop talking about him, and perhaps, just maybe, he'll go away. This isn't even intriguingly bad; it's not even laughable. I think the worst part of an album like this is how he casually utters blasphemy in the lines of "Like Jesus in every way/I'm crucified every day" in a way that he seems so oblivious to the importance of Jesus as anything more than simply being crucified at some point. Horrible, I wish I could put it into the negative.… Expand
  51. JeffS
    Nov 11, 2006
    0
    This has to be the worst album of the decade. KFed needs another occupation because he cannot cut it in the music industry.
  52. Dr.F.A.Chuck
    Nov 11, 2006
    0
    This is what happens when a random, white, American dumbass gets lucky. Kfed, you had your big chance, a one in a million chance, to create art and have it available to the masses. And this is what you produce? Sure, no one (and deep down inside you know this too) was surprised by how terrible a musician you are. What is tragic is that Britney could have married one of millions and This is what happens when a random, white, American dumbass gets lucky. Kfed, you had your big chance, a one in a million chance, to create art and have it available to the masses. And this is what you produce? Sure, no one (and deep down inside you know this too) was surprised by how terrible a musician you are. What is tragic is that Britney could have married one of millions and millions of talented yet poor musicians all over American. But she married you, o mighty juggernaught of suck, o grand prince of lame. It's just not fair. At the very least, you have reminded us all of that sad fact. Life is just not fair.… Expand
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#7 Most Discussed Album of 2006
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#19 Most Shared Album of 2006

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Metascore
15

Overwhelming dislike - based on 7 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 7
  3. Negative: 7 out of 7
  1. AllMusic
    20
    The worst thing about Playing with Fire is that it's too stale and inept to inspire laughter: it can only elicit weary groans.
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  2. Billboard
    30
    In general, Federline enunciates well. [11 Nov 2006]
  3. Entertainment Weekly
    0
    Other rappers might hesitate to brag about marrying into bling, but Federline isn't self-conscious about it.
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