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All City
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69

Generally favorable reviews - based on 10 Critic Reviews What's this?

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Mixed or average reviews- based on 6 Ratings

  • Summary: Slapped with the label "the female Beastie Boys" after their 2003 debut, the New York all-girl rap outfit make their major-label debut with 'All City,' which includes collaborations with Har Mar Superstar, ?uestlove and DJ Muggs.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 10
  3. Negative: 0 out of 10
  1. Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
    100
    The music on this feisty, funny rap album isn't new--just irresistible.
  2. Stylus Magazine
    90
    Perhaps All City’s most pleasing triumph, for fans of Northern State’s earlier stuff, is that the colloquial character of the Hesta and co.’s voices is in no way diluted by the more polished music accompanying it.
  3. The A.V. Club
    80
    On All City, Northern State does what visionary rap acts have done throughout the genre's history: It re-creates hip-hop in its own image, molding it into a potent vehicle for singular aspirations, anxieties, and dreams.
  4. AllMusic
    60
    There are occasional lapses in the lyrics department.
  5. Rolling Stone
    60
    Hip-hop for the modern fabulous woman.
  6. Spin
    58
    They're Old Schooled enough to ace history, but the science they drop is strictly C+. [Sep 2004, p.120]
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  7. Alternative Press
    40
    The ladies aren't ready to carry an album by themselves. [Oct 2004, p.146]
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  1. Positive: 1 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 4
  3. Negative: 3 out of 4
  1. Patrick
    Dec 23, 2004
    10
    Unbelieveable. Again rap has been reinvented - and NS is to thank for it. I am SO SICK and tired of the bling-hos-weed-40oz bullshit the Unbelieveable. Again rap has been reinvented - and NS is to thank for it. I am SO SICK and tired of the bling-hos-weed-40oz bullshit the record industry has been cramming down our throats. Kudos for Columbia for signing these wicked white muses. With "All City" they just mad the Rolling Stone "Top 50 albums of 2004" i.e. the other posters with 0 ratings are f**king idiots. They need to go back to smoking meth and shut the hell up. Don't listen to them - listen to the critics - they have a unified voice. Northern State are for real and are the freshest thing to happen to rap since Eminem.… Expand
  2. PunkIsDead
    Aug 11, 2005
    1
    Har Mar Superstar is the only way to make a Northern Star album worse than it already is. They need to change the album title to "All Har Mar Superstar is the only way to make a Northern Star album worse than it already is. They need to change the album title to "All Sh*tty". ...coming to an Urban Outfitters playlist near you!… Expand
  4. DanN
    Oct 20, 2004
    0
    Wow, they stink. Sorry, Sony, you probably wasted a ton of money on a talentless bunch of bitches. They sound like a group that had a little Wow, they stink. Sorry, Sony, you probably wasted a ton of money on a talentless bunch of bitches. They sound like a group that had a little too much fun at a high-school talent show, and ran with it, unfortunatly not realizing all along that everyone was laughing at them, not with them.… Expand
  5. JaneV
    Oct 28, 2004
    0
    These bunch of liberal queens wouldn't know a thing about what the real world- or reality is. They are a product of the rich suburbs. These bunch of liberal queens wouldn't know a thing about what the real world- or reality is. They are a product of the rich suburbs. Get a real job and stop whining about the real world. they are TALENTLESS… Expand

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