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82

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8.5

Universal acclaim- based on 12 Ratings

  • Summary: The latest full-length release for the Washington, D.C. rapper features guest appearances from Maleek Berry, Bibi Bourelly, Haile of WSTRN Khalid, Lil Nei, Ari PenSmith, Jay Prince, Pusha T, Lola Rae, Tyler, The Creator, Jackson Wang, and WizKid.
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  1. Jul 11, 2019
    84
    Listeners will find themselves going back to the top of the tracklist and letting the album roll through the variety of worldly sounding tracks. A true GoldLink summer vacation. A true summer diaspora.
  2. Jun 28, 2019
    80
    An album as wide ranging, far flung, eclectic, and richly satisfying as its name implies.
  3. Jun 28, 2019
    80
    GoldLink refuses to be one-dimensional here, offering up his dynamic and improved flow, as well as the vulnerability and edgy appeal that bubbles up throughout this project.
  4. Jun 28, 2019
    80
    It’s GoldLink’s ability to seem at home in any space that makes Diaspora so coherent, and so specific to him, despite pulling music from all over. He is the anchor.
  5. Q Magazine
    Jul 2, 2019
    80
    Welcoming in the wider world as Goldlink's laid-back delivery flows with deceptive ease over Joke Ting's sinuous, tropical R&B, the Afrobeats-like bounce of Zulu Screams and Yard's captivating Caribbean riddim. [Aug 2019, p.111]
  6. Jun 28, 2019
    60
    He remains a confident and commanding rapper, full of agile double-time flows and verses that skip from biographical vignettes and life lessons to boasting. But, given he rarely has more than one verse per song, Diaspora gives us a fragmented window into his thoughts.
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