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Metascore
79

Generally favorable reviews - based on 8 Critic Reviews What's this?

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7.8

Generally favorable reviews- based on 5 Ratings

  • Summary: This is the debut full-length release for the New York-born rapper/producer.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 8
  2. Negative: 0 out of 8
  1. Jul 25, 2012
    80
    Raw Money Raps is an exciting audible adventure into progressive hip-hop.
  2. Uncut
    Jul 25, 2012
    80
    An LP that reaffirms your faith in hip-hop. [Aug 2012, p.75]
  3. Q Magazine
    Jul 27, 2012
    80
    There's a significant talent emerging here. [Aug 2012, p.100]
  4. Aug 2, 2012
    70
    Raw Money Raps plays out like an exhaustive thesis work on how to expertly handle the art of hip-hop sampling. It's really a treat that an artist like Jae is wise enough to spend most of his energy figuring out how to manipulate different sounds instead of writing himself up as the next cool, swaggering martyr.
  5. Aug 10, 2012
    68
    Raw Money Raps is immaculately constructed as identity crises go, and there's an uncontrived honesty that feels more like someone working through a multifaceted outlook on life than testing his options for which crowd to play to.
  6. Jul 27, 2012
    65
    Raw Money Raps is fascinating and inventive, though not the game-changer many were hoping for.
  7. Jul 25, 2012
    50
    The album wants to be eccentric, but it severely lacks personality.

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