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For 859 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 62% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 33% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 73
Highest review score: 100 The Iceberg
Lowest review score: 15 Excuse My French
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 697 out of 859
  2. Mixed: 142 out of 859
  3. Negative: 20 out of 859
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Brandon Banks
    There’s a clarity in thought behind his bars that makes him stand out. He’s not content to drink cough syrup, AutoTune his vocals, and make up a bunch of nonsense that makes no damn sense but sounds catchy as hell. In fact if I was actually to pinpoint a shortcoming about Kream it would be that he makes “songs” instead of “singles” and that makes it hard for someone with a solid reputation from mixtapes to break out mainstream.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Charm
    There's a noticeably muted tone to his delivery and a bit of his defiant "proud to be country" attitude has faded away.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    I Heard It Today
    I Heard it Today makes me a less reluctant Lif fan since I've come to terms with his vocal style, but I still yearn for the collaborative efforts of Perceptionist days gone by which had incredible rhymes and incredible beats all at the same time.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Music Scene
    The Music Scene is a good album, but one that is hard to get excited about.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Press Play
    While it's far from the most important record in hip-hop in 2006, let alone in Diddy's career, it's one that does at least keep your interest the whole way through and is worth listening to more than once.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Don't Be Scared
    Vadim manages to mix hip-hop, dancehall, dubstep, soul, and electronic dance music into a concoction that works.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    2093
    Aside from leaning too hard into the baller and misogynistic cliches “2093” is a solid listen.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Look What You Made Me
    The problem here is that the near single-mindedness of his subject matter on Look What You Made Me shows EXACTLY what he's been made by one too many music videos with jiggling booty and coochie--a nymphomaniac.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Distortion
    I cautiously recommend "Distortion" to Run-D.M.C. fans as being a lot better than their unceremonious disaster of a final album "Crown Royal" while openly admitting anybody younger than 18 may not relate to it and pass right on by to something else.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Recovery
    This will hold a bizarre position in his catalogue--Recovery is not his best, nor his worst, but either people will listen incessantly or barely at all. There is no middle ground.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Evolution
    Evolution may not be a cutting edge advancement of hip-hop, but it's no embarrassment to Baatin and Dilla's legacy either. It's a solid album you wouldn't be ashamed to pledge a few dollars toward for a copy.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Watch the Throne
    It's certainly an enjoyable listen, with a few great songs – and at least it actually happened – but with the combined power, money and talent that Carter and West continually brag about, you can't help but feel that Watch the Throne could and should have been better.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Inspiration
    Jeezy has a competent flow, good breath control, plenty of hot beats and all-star guests, and yet this album really is a sequel to "101" in all but name because it picks up where the last one left off without even trying to differentiate between the two.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Allegory
    While handling all of the production himself is a valiant effort, it’s evident that Royce had a wobbly experience with it in that it isn’t fully consistent. Even so, “The Allegory” is another solid effort from the Detroit rhyme sayer.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Goon Affiliated
    There's no mistaking or denying what you get on this CD--the same thing you got each time out before.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Kool Herc: Fertile Crescent [EP]
    Kool Herc: Fertile Crescent succeeds because it manages to balance Homeboy Sandman's unique delivery with fun, free-wheeling production.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Bridge: Concept of a Culture
    Flash and his collaborators provide good beats and rhymes so if this is what a "studio album" is for Flash in 2009 let's just hope there are plenty more on the way.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Hot Sauce Committee, Pt. 2
    Don't go looking for the hidden meaning behind Hot Sauce Committee Part Two -- the Beastie Boys are just here to fight for their right to party.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Southsiders
    It's lines like [in "Flicker" that] keep me coming back to Atmosphere's music, and make Southsiders another solid entry into the Atmosphere catalogue, warts and all.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Hokey Fright
    I'm not even sure I like it, but I do respect that it's exactly the unusual artistic vision these collaborators conceived.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Love & Danger
    With so many albums in his volumnious catalogue, it's neither the best nor the worst, but a passable experience with intriguing beats and rhymes is all anybody can ask for from this eclectic eccentric of hip-hop.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Rodeo
    Somewhere beneath all the hype and production he does shine through.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Imani, Vol. 1
    Gift of Gab remains a fire-spitter but his flow has withered slightly since the immaculately delivered rhymes crafted in the early 2000s, but it's not always noticeable. Musically, there's some jarring moments that hold this back from being one of their best works.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    MAYA
    Favoring melody over raucous beats is a risky strategy, but she just about pulls it off.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Music Is My Savior
    These may be simple tales, but Mims' flow is a smooth Manhattan flow clearly influenced by the likes of New York greats like Jay-Z while still vocally unique enough to entice a listener to pay attention.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Dr. Dooom 2
    It's counter-productive to analyze Keith's verses too carefully, because at some point they're just well constructed and well delivered jabberwocky.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Voir Dire
    Overall, “Voir Dire” isn’t bad. But to speak the truth, in the spirit of the album, both men have had more superior output. Plus, The Alchemist’s beats are usually better suited for rappers with gangsta motifs, because it sounds more like shared vision then.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Blackout! 2
    Whilst this album is by no means a classic, and musically the latter parts perhaps not faring as well with repeat listens, it is lifted up by superb lyrics and effortless charisma from the rappers.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    KIRK
    An ambitious album that takes chance that mostly succeed and only occasionally miss the mark.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Bleeds
    As disappointing as Bleeds is at points, it is still a Roots Manuva album. The man can weave an intricate rhyme like few others, and his message of searching for righteousness and forgiveness is one that resonates.
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