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8.1

Universal acclaim- based on 16 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 16
  2. Negative: 2 out of 16

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  1. CliftonE.
    Jul 2, 2008
    5
    Old school hip hop mixtape fodder, mixing is tight, but that alone does not make something "classic". The track with Cronkite reading the news of the Kennedy assassination is TERRIBLE. It is not art, it is turning murder into a song. Horrible. However the disk itself has many funky old school hip hop tracks and mixing, which redeems this collection. There is a reason no U.S. company would Old school hip hop mixtape fodder, mixing is tight, but that alone does not make something "classic". The track with Cronkite reading the news of the Kennedy assassination is TERRIBLE. It is not art, it is turning murder into a song. Horrible. However the disk itself has many funky old school hip hop tracks and mixing, which redeems this collection. There is a reason no U.S. company would release these disks. Poor taste, not art. Expand

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Metascore
86

Universal acclaim - based on 18 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 18
  2. Negative: 0 out of 18
  1. Rap music has rarely gotten more virtuosic and creative than it does here.
  2. Alternative Press
    80
    'The Motorcade Sped On,' a track that chops up funky beats with verteran newscaster Walter Cronkite reporting the death of President John F. Kennedy, is worth the price of admission alone. [July 2008, p.170]
  3. 80
    Not all connect, but a bonus disc, the soon-vanished 2002 full-length Nothing to Fear, compensates. Buy this before it vanishes, too.