• Record Label: Def Jam
  • Release Date: Feb 4, 2022
Metascore
58

Mixed or average reviews - based on 7 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 7
  2. Negative: 0 out of 7
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  1. Feb 4, 2022
    60
    This record isn’t the return to form that it aims to be, but Chainz is back in his element here.
  2. Feb 4, 2022
    60
    Ideas are left unexplored, while 2Chainz innate abilities – on his day, one of the best MCs around – is clouded by a willingness to pack the tracklisting with guests. If this truly is his last trap project, then perhaps a change is overdue.
  3. Feb 4, 2022
    52
    In attempting to recreate his peak, he offers some familiar flows but mostly unimpressive lyrics that lean more toward grown-up nursery rhymes than his catchy, skillful couplets of days past.
  4. Mar 11, 2022
    50
    2 Chainz simply doesn't sound as inspired as he normally does, as this short set lacks the madcap wit and energy that flow throughout previous albums of much longer duration. A recharge and change of direction clearly seem necessary.
  5. Mar 16, 2022
    45
    The hard truth is that “Dope Don’t Sell Itself” takes a tumble down into the same hole of forgettable 2 Chainz albums that has become home to the likes of “Trapavelli Tre’”, “Pretty Girls Like Trap Music”, “Collegrove” and the like. 2 Chainz seems burnt out.
User Score
6.6

Generally favorable reviews- based on 5 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 5
  2. Negative: 0 out of 5
  1. Feb 6, 2022
    7
    I feel that my enjoyment of this album, and its actual merit as a work of art, are two very different things...

    Dope Don't Sell Itself, is
    I feel that my enjoyment of this album, and its actual merit as a work of art, are two very different things...

    Dope Don't Sell Itself, is sonically pleasing, and the features may as well have been generated by an AI robot... (Predictable, except for the Stove God Feature).

    Its just that, in terms of concept and or any focused direction... I just don't think its here...

    I give it a light 7
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