• Record Label: Def Jam
  • Release Date: May 28, 2021
User Score
7.1

Generally favorable reviews- based on 21 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 21
  2. Negative: 2 out of 21
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  1. May 29, 2021
    1
    Swizz’s producing resembles a little boy with his first soundboard/beat-pad thats loaded with DMX samples. One, maybe two tracks from this would make it on to a DMX Greatest Hits album. Everyone else reviewing just eats what they’re fed, I’m here to call it what it is, and thats trash.
  2. Jun 1, 2021
    3
    A total cash grab. This album sounds absolutely NOTHING like a DMX album. You mean to tell me X only does 2 hooks on a studio album?? This thing is a compilation album featuring DMX. What a terrible job Swizz did here.
Metascore
71

Generally favorable reviews - based on 11 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 11
  2. Negative: 0 out of 11
  1. Jun 3, 2021
    60
    A solid collection, but the shadow cast over the project by DMX's death highlights some of the inconsistencies and adds a heaviness and sense of unfinishedness that's palpable throughout.
  2. Jun 3, 2021
    82
    While the boastful rapitty raps are par for the course for an artist of DMX’s tenure, he shines even brighter on the more broodingly beautiful “Walking In The Rain,” which features another appearance from Nas.
  3. Jun 2, 2021
    65
    Though Swizz did vary the sound of the production, the album’s overall sound could’ve benefitted from a P.K. or Dame Grease beat. “Exodus” isn’t DMX’s worst album, but for a comeback album, a now-posthumous one at that, it should’ve been better.