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Jul 5, 2017Khaled sticks to what he knows best throughout this LP and that’s creating hits with ease. The 22 songs on Grateful aren’t anything out of the ordinary for Khaled or any of his featured guests but they remain hits nonetheless.
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Jun 29, 2017The first half of the album, Khaled showed precise execution, stacking banger after banger. Had he sliced the album down to 15 or 16 tracks, he could have secured a very special project.
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Jun 27, 2017With so much talent and so much content, it’s frustrating that he couldn’t deliver a higher-quality product.
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Jun 27, 2017This is a star studded line-up with Drake ("To the Max"), Future ("I Can't Even Lie"), Nicki Minaj ("Nobody"), and a few of your "grimy" favorites like Fat Joe and Raekwon ("Billy Ocean"). So are you going to enjoy all 80+ minutes of this double album that COULD have been a single disc? Unless you're not a fan of Migos and Travis Scott, yes.
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Jun 29, 2017Aside from hollering his name or catchphrases--“Another one!”, “Bless up!”, “We The Best Music!”--there’s no doubt Khaled’s formidable connections were the driving force behind Grateful. But, even with a dream team like this assembled, Khaled hasn’t located the ‘major key’ to the masterpiece he desired.
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Jun 27, 2017Sadly, nearly every song is made worse by Khaled’s inane shout outs of “another one” or “we the best music”, making you yearn for a Khaled-free version.
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Jul 10, 2017Many of the songs on the second half slide into each other in a forgettable jumble, but Grateful’s best songs are here, too.
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Jul 7, 2017It can be taken as a full listen, and it rolls along easily enough, but most likely listeners will just queue the songs they like and ignore the rest of the filler.
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Jun 29, 2017The beats are fully outfitted, and several are suitably immense, but they blur into one another as they serve as a spirited if mostly unremarkable summertime backdrop.
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Jun 30, 2017The majority of Grateful is forgettable at best.
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Jun 27, 2017The diversity he curates quickly turns messy, though, as a surplus of talent doesn't guarantee musical versatility.
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User score distribution:
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Positive: 20 out of 87
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Mixed: 21 out of 87
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Negative: 46 out of 87
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