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- Summary: The rapper's eighth album features Pharrell Williams, Cee-Lo Green, and Kanye West as guests.
- Record Label: Geffen
- Genre(s): Rap
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Sex 4 Sugar | |
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Girl, you're been touch by the forces of the nature I'm just tryin' to motivate ya Electricity is definitely there I got shot when I touch your... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 5 out of 26
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Mixed: 18 out of 26
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Negative: 3 out of 26
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UncutTough and determinedly sexed-up, here you'll find talk of beefs, booty and bitches, rather than brotherhood. Producers Neptunes and OutKast's Mr DJ oversee this exercise in alluringly moderne hip hop. [Oct 2008, p.83]
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While we're used to Common in the role of poetic prophet or self-righteous rhyme slayer, Universal Mind Control is primarily a rhythmic celebration, paying tribute to Afrika Bambaataa and Jonzun Crew jams.
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As was the case with John Legend, who beamed into the club on his latest, the initial effect is jarring, even in its star's capable hands. But it also settles in nicely.
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Universal Mind Control seems to move Common backward instead of forward, which for a lyricist of his caliber is truly disappointing.
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It’s a blatant mismatch, Mr. Williams’s blunt-force id with Common’s casual gravity. The Neptunes, who produce seven of the 10 songs here, treat Common as an obstacle to be worked around, which, in fairness, he is.
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The MC turns largely to the Neptunes for music, and their lithe, bombastic space-porno sonatas provide a vitality and playfulness he’s still capable of matching. But a string of increasingly awkward and thoroughly ludicrous sex jams finds him slapping asses, and may leave his devotees smacking their foreheads.
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Universal Mind Control is a painful misstep from a talented rapper who's decided to be as nasty as he wants to be--which turns out to be much, much nastier than we'd like.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 6 out of 11
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Mixed: 3 out of 11
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Negative: 2 out of 11
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markDec 9, 2008
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FrantzL.Dec 10, 2008
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PeterFJul 10, 2009
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LawrenceH.Dec 9, 2008Universal Mind Control is generally a fun album to listen to if you can get past Common's mediocre punchlines and lyrics.
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JimmyPDec 9, 2008
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May 17, 2021
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Jun 3, 2011
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