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Apr 26, 2011Golden Era, the smartest, funniest, most urgent hip hop joint of '11 by far.
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Apr 26, 2011Coming off the digital releases of Funk Man, and Automatik Statik comes Golden Era, the last third of the trilogy, which is, frankly, more of the same. But with Del, that's a good thing.
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Apr 26, 2011Just two-and-a-half hours and 34 tracks (including two hidden bonuses at the end of the third disc) of solid rhyming and beatmaking, most of them excellent, some of them brilliant, a handful of them merely good. That's quite a batting average.
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Apr 26, 2011In sum, Golden Era is an extremely tight, solid package, clocking in at less than 40 minutes through ten tracks.
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Apr 29, 2011Yes, the three discs of Golden Era are a zone of throwback pleasures. It's a chance to listen to one of rap's best voices run on, with breathless speed and breathtaking control, over the kind of effortlessly funky beats that sadly don't get much attention in certain quarters these days.
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Apr 26, 2011Golden Era is hit or miss, but thankfully it's more of the former than the latter.
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Jul 13, 2011Regardless of if you were hoping for more from Del in his latest offering, Golden Era is a good summer album and a reminder of all of the things you loved about hip-hop growing up.
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Apr 26, 2011Del takes a trip down memory lane on Golden Era, but it's never as special or profound the second time around.