User Score
6.8

Generally favorable reviews- based on 25 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 16 out of 25
  2. Negative: 3 out of 25

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  1. bigmike
    Jul 4, 2006
    5
    after a 4 year wait,this album was disappointing. the touch it track was incredible leading me to believe the big bang was going to have my head nodding like the previous records. the album is slow as hell and too many guest appearances. many hot tracks left off the album. stevie wonder a great artist along with rick james but a waste of tracks on a busta rhymes album. no wild enthusiasm. after a 4 year wait,this album was disappointing. the touch it track was incredible leading me to believe the big bang was going to have my head nodding like the previous records. the album is slow as hell and too many guest appearances. many hot tracks left off the album. stevie wonder a great artist along with rick james but a waste of tracks on a busta rhymes album. no wild enthusiasm. i understand there may never be another ele album but after the first two songs and the nas track i was uninterested. 3 out of 15. Expand
  2. danielk
    Jun 14, 2006
    4
    weak
  3. Apr 21, 2016
    6
    not among his strongest like his past work, but not his weakest either. few good gems off here i liked, but the rest were average. production was ok on some.
Metascore
64

Generally favorable reviews - based on 17 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 17
  2. Negative: 2 out of 17
  1. The album features a swaggering, minimalist confidence that's virtually impossible to ignore.
  2. On this album, then, the bad news is the same as the good news: Busta Rhymes is still Busta Rhymes. Which means that this CD contains about a half-dozen songs so infectious that they obliterate all the rest.
  3. "The Big Bang" successfully treads the line of commercialism, with palatable mainstream singles and solid street tracks.