The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living
by The Streets
Metascore
72

Generally favorable reviews - based on 36 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 26 out of 36
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 36
  3. Negative: 1 out of 36
  1. Stylus Magazine
    25
    The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living is an exercise in empty nothingness. But it’s not Bacchanalian coked-out excess nothingness, it's the joyless hollow-eyed actions of a man who is waiting for the next fix and doesn't care what bullshit has to come out of his lips in order to get paid.

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User Score
7.2

Generally favorable reviews- based on 31 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 22 out of 31
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 31
  3. Negative: 4 out of 31
  1. brockcheese
    Apr 14, 2015
    7
    I like this album by The Streets, but not nearly as much as their 2 previous albums, which in my opinion are amazing. I just don't think thisI like this album by The Streets, but not nearly as much as their 2 previous albums, which in my opinion are amazing. I just don't think this album is as introspective as their previous work and feels kind of like fluff.… Full Review »
  2. AViewAM
    Oct 30, 2006
    7
    When I heard "Grand" (yes, I started with the second album first) I thought I was hearing a whole new phase of hip-hop blowing out of my When I heard "Grand" (yes, I started with the second album first) I thought I was hearing a whole new phase of hip-hop blowing out of my speakers. Turns out I was partly right. Not as energetically powerful as OPM or as flowing lyrical as Grand, Hardest Way still manages to deliver the goods with even higher prod. values than before. Anyone who gives this album lower than a 6 has obviously come down with a nastly case of brain death.… Full Review »
  3. Duncan
    Aug 3, 2006
    10
    Brilliant. His best album yet.
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