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83 out of 100

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8.8 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 20 Ratings

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  • Summary: The fourth album for the Minnesota-based artist features guests David "Stokley" Williams, Chuck D, Freeway, and Joell Ortiz.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 12
  3. Negative: 0 out of 12
  1. PopMatters
    100
    This album is so near-flawless it would be easy to go on and on about how you need to hear it as soon as possible.
  2. The A.V. Club
    91
    On Us, his deeply humane new album, that mad-prophet intensity can be exhausting, exhilarating, and downright transcendent.
  3. Rolling Stone
    60
    Us sounds great, with Ali's sensitive, stentorian voice plowing through sleek jazz and blues loops from producer Ant. But the album ends up blandly heavy, weighed down with dark street dramas and lessons about how "the same color blood just pass through our veins."

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 8
  3. Negative: 0 out of 8
  1. ArthurS
    10
    Amazing album. Ali makes lyrics that you really can relate to.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  2. AnthonyM
    10
    This is hot. In all seriousness, I don't think there's a better rapper out there. There may be a couple who are just as good, but no one is better.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  3. DawoudA
    4
    I don't understand why everyone is giving this goofball a free ride. The wince-worthy sincerity of his lyrics is the kind of sincerity that only a profound self-deception can engender. I think he's in that magical category where only people that are feeling what he's doing are reviewing him, and he gets this magical skew that propels his Metascore beyond hip hop albums that clearly eclipse this effort. I mean, I guess it's okay and all. He's not an incompetent artist or anything. But folks, really, a white black Muslim? Nobody's going to say anything? Seriously?… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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