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The WireFeb 28, 2013Keef [has] formidable talent for writing hooks (and tracks) that are both naggingly catchy and strangely joyless. [Feb 2013, p.61]
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Dec 20, 2012He's proven he can assimilate into the world of mainstream rap while still retaining his singularity.
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Dec 18, 2012Finally Rich benefits from some professional tweaks in the mix, but otherwise leaves Keef's sound untouched. And in addition to succeeding on its own terms, it proves that Keef has a lot of potential-- much more than his detractors might have hoped.
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Dec 18, 2012The 17-year-old Chicago thug offers infectious odes to nihilism and tirades against haters that are as simple-minded and catchy as they are brutal.
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The SourceFeb 21, 2013Production from the likes of Young Chop, Mike Will Made It, and Lex Luger propel Finally Rich since it's evident that Chief Keef cares just as much about precise lyricism as he does about keeping the peace on the Southside of Chicago. [Feb-Mar 2013, p.91]
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Jan 7, 2013It's distressing, elementary and samey yet utterly unignorable.
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Jan 3, 2013Portentous, monochrome synths, staccato beats and torpid tempos provide a backdrop of cheap grandeur; Keef doesn't so much ride the beat as pace suspiciously alongside it (sometimes, it's more like plodding).
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Dec 31, 2012Rapping with his affectless slur and bricklayer's tempo over rolling, mid-speed beats, Keef (who was criticized for mocking a murder victim, his rival, on Twitter) seems unshakably confident but profoundly directionless.
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Dec 18, 2012On Finally Rich he continues to execute a his niche sound, and at a high level.
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Jan 8, 2013Most poeple probably have those two tracks ["Love Sosa" and "I Don't Like"], and there isn't anything else on here that warrants buying this or taking the time to find a torrent of it.
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Dec 19, 2012No amount of street cred can make up for this mostly middling, only intermittently marvellous record.
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Dec 18, 2012There's also a joyless and dispiriting quality to the music, something soul crushing in how the most backward elements of rap culture have coalesced into one hardened teenager.
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Dec 18, 2012Keef is a remote presence on his major-label debut.
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Dec 18, 2012When Finally Rich works (and it often does), it's thanks to everyone other than Chief Keef.
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Dec 18, 2012Ultimately, Finally Rich exposes the limits of Keef's chosen lane and, worse, doesn't point toward a more optimal route.
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Dec 18, 2012Though French Montana fits well on "Diamonds," his presence distracts from the youngster's appeal with similarly dull results stemming from rivals Young Jeezy & Rick Ross on "Understand Me" and an updated "3Hunna" respectively. These flaws along with the senseless experimental delivery of "Laughin' To The Bank" water down an otherwise exciting listen for anyone willing to humor Keef's madness.
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Jan 24, 2013A hardened, firsthand account of the preordained dire straits of the American underclass, and Waka Flocka Flame-indebted boast talk minus the charisma.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 52 out of 102
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Mixed: 14 out of 102
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Negative: 36 out of 102
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Jan 4, 2013
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Dec 18, 2012
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Feb 3, 2013