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Czarface Meets Metal Face
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 39 Ratings

  • Summary: The first full-length collaboration between Czarface [Wu-Tang Clan's Inspectah Deck and 7L & Esoteric] and MF Doom features guest appearances from Kendra Morris, Open Mike Eagle and Vinnie Paz.
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 9
  3. Negative: 0 out of 9
  1. HipHopDX
    Mar 30, 2018
    86
    This isn’t a simple listen. The lyrical punches fly faster than a speeding bullet, making it impossible to digest the staggering amount of content in a single sitting. It requires an acute attention to detail and several run-throughs to truly capture the brilliance of the project.
  2. RapReviews.com
    Jul 3, 2018
    85
    Yes true believers these villains are definitely up to no good, but they're just the anti-heroes you've been looking for. With beats and rhymes more punishing than Frank Castle, Czarface Meets Metal Face is the hip-hop for everyone who's had it up to here with mumble mouthed singing emcees.
  3. The Wire
    Jul 12, 2018
    80
    This is music strapped for battle, the beats tooled up and live-sounding, the loops and details kept to a brute minimum by Doom so that the lines, and guest spots from Vinnie Paz and Open Mike Eagle, can really punch through. [May 2018, p.63]
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  4. AllMusic
    Mar 30, 2018
    70
    Skits like "Close Talker" draw out a conflict between Czarface and Doom, but the former seems to be a bit more aggressive--Doom doesn't really seem to fight back, he's just doing his thing, talking sharp and candid like always. In any case, the album is still a whole lot of fun, and shouldn't disappoint fans of either act.
  5. The A.V. Club
    Mar 30, 2018
    67
    The late-album highlight “Captain Brunch” is a little weirder and more characterful, a hint at what a bolder, tighter collaboration between all these immensely talented artists could sound like. The rest is fine, but for fans only.
  6. The 405
    Apr 4, 2018
    65
    While the group’s mutual wit and sense of lyrical structure could elevate the flattest of records, the kineticism and gleeful weirdness of their individual work is bafflingly absent. Czarface Meets Metal Face is polished but never makes good on the thrills promised by their teasing enterprise ‘Ka-Bang’ off Czarface’s 2015 record Every Hero Needs A Villain.
  7. New Musical Express (NME)
    Mar 30, 2018
    60
    For the most part, though, you’ll need to look elsewhere for your protest music. This is escapist rap, as outlandish and oversized as a gaudy Spiderman comic--and, at times, just as much absurdist fun.

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  2. Mixed: 1 out of 6
  3. Negative: 0 out of 6
  1. gwtl
    Apr 5, 2018
    10
    You know if this is for you. Excellent boom bap production, colorful samples, tight lyrics and cadences. Support this type of hip hop - it'sYou know if this is for you. Excellent boom bap production, colorful samples, tight lyrics and cadences. Support this type of hip hop - it's getting more and more rare!… Expand
  2. childofthe90s
    Apr 1, 2018
    10
    This album is fire from start to finish. there's not a single that i didn't like at all. Czarface and Doom is the antidote. i could listen toThis album is fire from start to finish. there's not a single that i didn't like at all. Czarface and Doom is the antidote. i could listen to this project from front to back.… Expand
  4. Thefish45
    Apr 3, 2018
    10
    Doom fans, Wu Tang fans, and Czarface followers rejoice! This album is fire from start to finish. Conscious and creative.
  5. cholland134
    Apr 7, 2018
    9
    This another great MF Doom project. I havent listened to Czarface before but will have to go check them out now. Overall Esoteric, InspectahThis another great MF Doom project. I havent listened to Czarface before but will have to go check them out now. Overall Esoteric, Inspectah Deck, and MF rip these tracks with tightly constructed flows and bars. The production is also pretty great but not as good as it could have been. Still a great listen for anyone who loves top line lyricism and character play.… Expand
  6. Whiskeyclone
    Apr 12, 2018
    8
    To call this Doom's best album in over a decade may be a bit generous - not because it doesn't smoke every full release he's been in on sinceTo call this Doom's best album in over a decade may be a bit generous - not because it doesn't smoke every full release he's been in on since before the '09 self-titled album (oh, how it does!), but because Czarface does the heaviest lifting here as far as MC-ing goes. But it nails what a Doom album should sound like, he still is in more or less late-period form, and both Czarface and 7L are on absolute fire throughout. The album is non-stop funny and clever, not to mention just fun. Should it end after "MF Czar"? Sure, but what a run it is before those last two filler tracks.… Expand
  7. spenceryang8
    Feb 22, 2019
    5
    Czarface Meets Ghostface finds everyone besides 7L punching below their weight.

    FAV TRACKS: FACE OFF, IRON CLAW, MORNING RITUAL LEAST    Czarface Meets Ghostface finds everyone besides 7L punching below their weight.

    FAV TRACKS: FACE OFF, IRON CLAW, MORNING RITUAL

    LEAST FAV TRACK: CZARRCADE '87    … Expand

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