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Generally favorable reviews- based on 766 Ratings
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Positive: 625 out of 766
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Mixed: 71 out of 766
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Negative: 70 out of 766
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Jun 29, 2012
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Aug 27, 2011I'm not a fan of the "I'm so rich and powerful" lyrics that spew from even the most self proclaimed greatest rappers alive. JAy Z is a great artist and Kanye West is a great producer. But together they managed to put out a boring, fart of the mouth with lyrics that mimic any rapper out there today. In short this album is not very good.
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Aug 15, 2011
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Aug 31, 2011
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Aug 12, 2011So....The long anticipated, excessively hyped WTT from rap duos(Ye and Jay) is finally out....Here is a quick review.
Is WTT a classic ? No. A near classic ? No
A Game Changer? No
A Good Album ? Just a recommendation.
Jay And Ye, Are they good duos? No, they inspire nothing out of each other.
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Aug 30, 2011Although far from being the strongest contender of best hip hop albumm this year, Watch The Throne has its gems, its golden moment where we as the peasant are allowed to hear the sensitive side of modern rhyming king. Too bad that these moments are often ruined by the throne itself who tries too hard to be a bad king by showing off their power too much.
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Aug 31, 2011
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Oct 7, 2011It's definitely a grower. Sounds decent, but only after a dozen of listens. It's better than Jay's 'Blueprint 3', buy it doesn't sound as good as Kanye's 'My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy'. But that doesn't mean it's a bad album and that doesn't mean it's a good album either. Jay-z's flow is slow and that's the thing that's bothering me. I think that critics overreacted a little bit.
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Dec 12, 2011
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Feb 20, 2012It nearly strikes where it should but this collaboration album does not take off far enough from ground covered by both artists to be considered anything more than an experiment. Sure there are standout tracks a plenty, but there is also a large amount of filler that renders this as more of a great B-Side compilation than anything else...
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Feb 16, 2013
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Jul 1, 2022Watch the Throne is more notable for its general lack of impact. Neither as compulsively neurotic as Eminem, as languidly characterful as Snoop Dogg, nor as furiously articulate as Nas, the raps here represent a pretty mediocre, cardboard kind of throne, truth be told
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Jan 10, 2022Este álbum me parece algo repetitivo y parece que sobran canciones.
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Mar 4, 2022The first half is amazing then after Otis the quality of the songs drop a lot, murder in excellence the only good song of the second half
Awards & Rankings
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MagnetNov 11, 2011They turn out to be pretty good influences on one another. Jay sounds generally reinvigorated: good-humored, full of nimble, intricate wit and atypically emotionally revealing, and if Kanye's rhymes occasionally remain as clumsy and crass as his personal life choices, he drops far fewer boners than usual. [#81, p. 56]
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Q MagazineSep 21, 2011Hip hop heavy weights stop squabbling for long enough to justify their star billing. [Oct 2011, p.116]
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Sep 12, 2011That Jay and 'Ye have the courtesy to stop rapping about their money and start attacking real issues--black-on-black crime in "Murder to Excellence," raising children on "New Day"--is icing on a very expensive cake.