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For 194 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 58% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 40% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.6 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 69
Highest review score:
Undun
Critic Score 100
Lowest review score:
5.0
Critic Score 30
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 134 out of 194
  2. Mixed: 59 out of 194
  3. Negative: 1 out of 194
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    • Metascore: 88
    • Critic Score 100
    Undun
    This is a work to prove that they could do it, and they've done it tenfold.
    • Metascore: 94
    • Critic Score 90
    My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
    From nine-minute douchebag manifestos, to enlisting an A-list Grammy ensemble to piece-mealing his album out to the masses every Friday, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy defies logic and it ignores convention.
    • Metascore: 89
    • Critic Score 90
    Charity Starts at Home
    With its substantial subject matter, solid production and tightly-woven sequencing, Charity Starts At Home does exactly what a solo debut should: showcases the artist's skill set and personality all at once.
    • Metascore: 74
    • Critic Score 90
    The Dreamer/The Believer
    Every song on The Dreamer/The Believer succeeds off the strength of Common and No I.D.'s seasoned chemistry.
    • Metascore: 85
    • Critic Score 90
    R.A.P. Music
    There's no doubt--R.A.P. Music is the best Southern Rap album since Big Boi's Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty.
    • Metascore: 83
    • Critic Score 90
    Control System
    The project furthers Top Dawg Entertainment's winning streak and marks the formal arrival of a cornerstone for this organization, an interestingly deep thinker whose determination and expanding consciousness seek to uplift and shape the world around him.
    • Metascore: 78
    • Critic Score 90
    Live from the Underground
    The album is brimming with peerless content and an enlivened ambience that is manifested from his spoken word introduction to his grandmother's parting words on the closing track.
    • Metascore: 76
    • Critic Score 90
    Russian Roulette
    Although it feels druggy and improvisational at times, the outcome is soberingly great.
    • Metascore: 70
    • Critic Score 90
    Welcome To: Our House
    With welcome to: OUR HOUSE, Slaughterhouse has somehow managed to improve upon its already-absurd skill set.
    • Metascore: 91
    • Critic Score 90
    Good Kid, M.A.A.D City
    With Good Kid, m.A.A.d. City, Compton's flag bearer unveils a group of songs equally potent individually and collectively, meeting the mainstream and rabid fans in the middle, improbably touching that thinnest slice between mass appeal and mass respect.
    • Metascore: 82
    • Critic Score 90
    A Love Surreal
    By co-opting the title of John Coltrane’s 1965 classic, A Love Supreme, Bilal is at least hinting at lofty expectations. For the most part he exceeds them.
    • Metascore: 84
    • Critic Score 90
    Kool Herc: Fertile Crescent [EP]
    Kool Herc: Fertile Crescent is at its root empowering, challenging and subversive, most strikingly, it’s simply an incredibly rewarding listen.