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- Summary: The Canadian artist's sixth full length album.
- Record Label: Strangefamousrecords
- Genre(s): Rap
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| 1957 | |
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| I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed. Devoid of conviction, conflicted, annoyed. Kicked at and worn down. 6 6 6. Beat. Looking for the... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 11 out of 21
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Mixed: 10 out of 21
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Negative: 0 out of 21
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Timelag-wise, the 1957 concept is as if some '60s songpoet had conceived an album about Armistice Day, influenza, the Palmer raids and Mary Pickford. Only that would have been a milestone and this isn't, which you can blame on heightened aesthetic expectations rather than the potency of this Canadian rapper's literary mojo.
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Buck keeps things relatively stripped down, embroidering vintage-sounding boom-bap beats with just enough detail to keep your ear engaged between his wordy verses, which he values far more than catchy choruses.
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It's consistently great stuff--this is among the best hip-hop albums of the year by my reckoning.
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Favoring the easy gravity of images and ideas over well-crafted sounds and stories, Situation finally drowns in its nostalgia.
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Under The RadarHe's still not the smoothest MC in the world, continuing to hurt his flow by cramming too many words into his verses, but his rhymes are sharp and his references prove he did his homeowrk. [Fall 2007, p.87]
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His ambition’s got the better of him this time, though: it’s tough to care about the overarching (and admittedly interesting) theme when the component songs aren’t satisfying themselves.
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There are isolated moments of beauty--the spare piano loop of 'Ho-Boys,' though nothing new, is evocative and effective--but little sticks in the mind or stimulates the emotions.
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Positive: 3 out of 3
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Mixed: 0 out of 3
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Negative: 0 out of 3
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LaceaC.Feb 1, 2008Maturity, that's about it.
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CarlS.Dec 3, 2007
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JohnG.Nov 9, 2007Fantastic lyrics and beats. Old-school in it's rawness. Buck 65 is one of a kind.
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