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Dec 8, 2015This rough, honest, and ambitious work is like his Raging Bull, taking the listener on a compelling, dirty journey that's also a connectable character study.
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Dec 8, 2015It doesn’t hit as hard as some previous albums, but it surely proves just how good Rick Ross can be as a songwriter and collaborator. It also proves how sharp he has become as a rapper.
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Dec 10, 2015He's at his most effective when he dials back the Rick Ross character, so the album’s standouts feature him laying bawse insight over slow-burners.
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Dec 8, 2015Rick Ross is an entertainer and Black Market is for the most part an entertaining album.
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Dec 21, 2015There's a great Rick Ross album in here somewhere. If only the boss had abstained from some of his extravagant habits and used his editing sheers more cuttingly.
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Jan 15, 2016Ross' eighth album, though, raises doubts about how he'll fare in the era of the confessional, emotionally bare rap superstar. The man who once boasted 10-car garages and uncollected favors from dictators is now trafficking in the same honesty that made Future a critical smash and J. Cole a commercial one.
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Dec 18, 2015It’s populated with misguided love songs (“Sorry”, “Can’t Say No”) and paranoid musings (“Crocodile Python”) that on previous Ross albums would’ve instead been replaced by devoted brag fests.
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Q MagazineJan 12, 2016His once winning formula now sounds wanly formulaic. [Feb 2016, p.112]
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Dec 8, 2015Musically, the album mines its entire aesthetic from a bargain bin of classicist hip-hop clichés.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 15 out of 23
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Mixed: 4 out of 23
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Negative: 4 out of 23
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