The Renaissance
- Q-Tip
- Band Name: Q-Tip
- Record Label: Universal Motown
- Release Date: Nov 4, 2008
- Summary: Q-Tip returns to release his first solo album in nine years with guests such as D'Angelo, Amanda Diva, Norah Jones, and Raphael Saadiq.
- Record Label: Universal Motown
- Genre(s): Rap
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 23 out of 24
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Mixed: 1 out of 24
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Negative: 0 out of 24
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His music now seems as fresh and necessary an alternative to rap's mainstream as it did when Tribe first arrived. Welcome back, old friend.
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The Renaissance is arguably, the best hip-hop album of the year.
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60The Renaissance offers a compromise between the rootsy East Coast rap he helped to define and the LP you imagine the label wanted. [Jan 2008, p.111]
Score distribution:
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Positive: 16 out of 17
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Mixed: 0 out of 17
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Negative: 1 out of 17
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ClaireF10One of the best albums I have bought in years...immense!
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EricM10This album is magnificent, a great experience
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OwenP3
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