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The best hip-hop album of 2006.
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Hell Hath No Fury is as lyrically kaleidoscopic as it is conceptually monochrome. Track after track flays the central theme, but with such consistently inventive language it seems almost churlish to dwell on its moral bankruptcy.
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There's not an ounce of fat here. What's left reaffirms the Neptunes' credentials as fearless sonic innovators - eradicating the memory of Pharrell Williams' underwhelming recent solo album at a stroke - and fast-tracks Clipse into the pantheon of great rap lyricists.
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MSN Consumer Guide (Robert Christgau)They're unflinchingly unsensationalistic. But it's the beats that turn this into noir worthy of Jim Thompson. [Feb/Mar 2007]
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An album that's sonically deep, dark, and one of 2006's finest.
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Fury is a twelve step sequence of poisonous, caustic, and lithe rap.
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These clattering and clear-eyed tracks add up to something singular. [27 Nov 2006]
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It's impossible to guess what kind of album would've turned out had this seen the light of day two years ago, when it was originally expected. Chances are, though, we wouldn't be talking about intensity or hunger or survival with the same emotion in our voices.
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Make no mistake: Hell Hath No Fury is a major event.
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"Hell Hath No Fury" has nearly redefined its genre; it takes the coke trade's dead eyes and empty hearts, found from penthouse to pavement, and turns them into music.
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A lean, furious, cold-blooded album that is vividly to-the-point.
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One listen is all that is needed to convince you that the Clipse have dropped one of the best rap albums of the year.
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The hype was (gulp) correct. Hell Hath No Fury is hot. Dirtily, nastily, pipingly hot. Not Best Rap Album of the Year hot; Best Rap Album in a Few Years hot.
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Fury is as lean and mean sonically as it is lyrically.
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BlenderIt's ghetto viciousness as literary exercise--an episode of The Wire with a better soundtrack. [Nov 2006, p.142]
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VibeTogether, they paint devastating emotional portraits, and they sidestep tedium by remaining rap's most lyrically inventive group. [Nov 2006, p.155]
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BillboardAt first the beats are jarring. But like the Clipse's debut smash, "Grindin'," once it all clicks, it's unstoppable. [2 Dec 2006]
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Hell Hath No Fury stands as one of the most entertaining releases of the year, patched with glorious lyrical play, blinging exercises in fantasy and a jaunty half-seriousness.
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SpinOn Hell Hath No Fury, Clipse transform cliches into poetry. [Nov 2006, p.105]
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So why is it one of the best hip-hop albums of the year? For one, nobody gets the beats -- dry, hard and evil -- that Clipse get from Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo.
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The Neptunes' pitch-perfect production allied with Pusha-T and Malice's vicious, witty rhymes make Hell Hath No Fury one of the records of the year.
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If you didn't like the casual misogyny, glorification of crack dealing and unapologetic thuggery of the debut then stop reading now, because "Hell Hath No Fury" makes it sound like "Meat Is Murder" by The Smiths.
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This time, believe the hype.
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UncutConcise at 12 tracks, the stylistic coherence seldom fails to engage. [Feb 2007, p.73]
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New Musical Express (NME)Listen to the beats and you'll find The Neptunes' best work in years. [27 Jan 2007, p.31]
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Q MagazinePusha T and Malice are deft wordsmiths who deliver lean, whip-smart couplets. [Mar 2007, p.111]
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There's a cold efficiency in how the Clipse delivers songs built on street-corner cockiness and billfold bluster. It's all shamelessly amoral, but the Clipse wouldn't be such savvy hustlers if they didn't know how to sling with style.
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Hell Hath No Fury isn't as well-assembled as Lord Willin' or as spontaneous as Clipse's lauded mix-CDs from 2005 but it is coldly efficient in knocking out 12 songs backed with superbly dark and sparse tracks by the Neptunes.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 160 out of 192
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Mixed: 18 out of 192
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Negative: 14 out of 192
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