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The Naked Truth
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66

Generally favorable reviews - based on 17 Critic Reviews What's this?

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7.4

Generally favorable reviews- based on 57 Ratings

  • Summary: The soon-to-be-incarcerated (for perjury) rapper offers a fourth solo disc. Kanye West and Scott Storch are among the producers.

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Lighters Up
I come from Bed-Stuy Where niggaz either do or they gone die Gotta keep the Ratchett close by Someone murdered Nobody seen, nobody heard it Just... See the rest of the song lyrics
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Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 17
  3. Negative: 3 out of 17
  1. Village Voice
    100
    An easy contender for best rap record of the year.
  2. PopMatters
    90
    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.
  3. Pitchfork
    78
    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.
  4. Entertainment Weekly
    67
    Her 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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  5. Prefix Magazine
    60
    Just as she was becoming irrelevant, Lil’ Kim returns with her hardest, bravest and most exciting album to date.
  6. AllMusic
    40
    A meandering drag.
  7. Stylus Magazine
    16
    One of 2005’s most thudding disappointments.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 17 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 19
  3. Negative: 1 out of 19
  1. oldskoolHipHop
    Nov 12, 2013
    10
    QUEEN OF RAPPPPPPPPP! Her rap flow was VICIOUS! and Lyricism was PERFECT. Kim Expressed so much and you felt what she was feeling. LiterallyQUEEN OF RAPPPPPPPPP! Her rap flow was VICIOUS! and Lyricism was PERFECT. Kim Expressed so much and you felt what she was feeling. Literally she did no wrong in the album. Beyond under-appreciated. Just one of the many things that makes her the reigning queen of hip-hop and rap. No-one can take that away from her!… Expand
  2. DaBlackNight
    Jan 8, 2012
    10
    Lil' Kim is doing her thing. This album is a total classic. You can't get enough of her undeniable lyrics, and production. She really got offLil' Kim is doing her thing. This album is a total classic. You can't get enough of her undeniable lyrics, and production. She really got off about rapping about sex a lot. She's more into money, power, rhymes, and skills on this one. The opening track, "Spell Check" has a good beat thats catchy, and her rhymes are really like a true rapper. "Lighters Up" is one of my favorite tracks. "Quiet" is her borrowing Eminem's flow. Not stealing. She attacks Foxy Brown real good on that one, especially the lines in that song: " She prove you a liar/ Tryn' deny her/ Jackie-O proved you far from a fighter/ Comin' at me **** you playin' with fire/ i could come back at you, but comin' after your ghostwriters"! Thats the queen rapping right there. "Whoa" is an intense, hot nice track. Slippin' has some good lyrical content. The Naked Truth by far is truly a classic by Lil' Kim. Two classics actually, Hard Core.… Expand
  4. DustinP.
    Oct 31, 2005
    10
    Great.
  5. LispectorLTX
    Nov 23, 2017
    10
    The Queen of Rap! In the edge of going to jail, Lil' Kim return with an incredible album, including the hit single and Brooklyn's anthemThe Queen of Rap! In the edge of going to jail, Lil' Kim return with an incredible album, including the hit single and Brooklyn's anthem "Lighters Up". Even if it was a failure on sales, "The Naked Truth" shows ripening on the rapper's rhymes - even though she don't need.… Expand
  6. jod
    Oct 21, 2005
    9
    Wow! Why are so many people giving lil' lim crap about this album it is preety good. The first half is bangin but then it finda inst as Wow! Why are so many people giving lil' lim crap about this album it is preety good. The first half is bangin but then it finda inst as good. It atleast desevres a 8 but i gave it a 9. Hey the public does like lighters up is on the top 40 and peaked at number 6 on the album charts… Expand
  7. Anderson
    Oct 30, 2005
    9
    The critics who reviewed this album and didn't care for it must be idiots. Whether she sampled other artist's flow she still did The critics who reviewed this album and didn't care for it must be idiots. Whether she sampled other artist's flow she still did most of the tracks justice. Which they fail to mention. Lyrically the album is up to par. The only problem is maybe 2 or 3 tracks and the excessive skits. This album is superior to Hardcore and Naked Truth is her most solid work.… Expand
  8. joea
    Nov 18, 2005
    0
    r u niggas on crack? lil kim sucks. If this is music, then Christina Uglylera is Aretha Franklin

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