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An easy contender for best rap record of the year.
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VibeTruth validates the Queen Bee's position as the definitive rap vixen. [Dec 2005, p.210]
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All in all, The Naked Truth is a great musical and lyrical effort, as well as a timely response to the media and the peanut gallery.
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BlenderEasily Kim's strongest work since her pheromone-thick 1996 debut. [Nov 2005, p.136]
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The Naked Truth may be better than 80% of the other rap albums to be released in 2005, but that don't make it another Ready to Die.
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Though hardly in the running for rap album of the year, there's plenty to recommend "The Naked Truth". Yet equally, there's an abundance of wearing phone skits, phoned-in guest performances and shameless fillers to get in the way.
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The Naked Truth could benefit from judicious cutting, but for its superior first half at least, it boasts the intimacy of a diary entry and the urgency of a kite sent straight out the penitentiary.
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New Musical Express (NME)A bit less front and slightly more of her crazed, talon-nailed, plastic surgery-enhanced Bratz doll-persona would've made for a classic. [12 Nov 2005, p.41]
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Entertainment WeeklyHer very-real-life drama has inspired some of her most focused work... and also some of her worst. [21 Oct 2005, p.75]
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The vulnerability behind that mask is what's missing here; if she could articulate it, she might have a true classic.
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Just as she was becoming irrelevant, Lil’ Kim returns with her hardest, bravest and most exciting album to date.
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The preemptively defensive album's biggest problem is that it's surely nowhere near as interesting as its yet-to-be-recorded post-slammer follow-up will be.
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A meandering drag.
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UncutThings go downhill as petty vindictiveness and insignificant beefs become the preferred themes. [Jan 2006, p.114]
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This album is as fake as Kim’s physique, as vapid as the fashion she flaunts, as undeservedly praised as her entire career.
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The New York TimesA surprisingly dull album. [26 Sep 2005]
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One of 2005’s most thudding disappointments.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 42 out of 57
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Mixed: 3 out of 57
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Negative: 12 out of 57
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Nov 12, 2013
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Mar 4, 2018This álbum is sooo god i just love it, this album sold 2,7 millions worldwide with any promo, and 1 million in US. I LOVE IT
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Nov 23, 2017