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Hot Sauce Committee, Pt. 2
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Universal acclaim- based on 68 Ratings

  • Artist(s): Mike D, MCA
  • Summary: The Brooklyn-based hip-hop legends return with their eighth studio album.
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Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 38 out of 42
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 42
  3. Negative: 0 out of 42
  1. Los Angeles Times
    May 2, 2011
    100
    The Beasties' irreverence is what made them stand out in the first place; that their willful chaos continues to charm and mutate so many years on is the big surprise.
  2. AllMusic
    May 4, 2011
    90
    All this hurly-burly camouflages the essential truth of The Hot Sauce Committee: that the Beasties could sit on an album for two years to no ill effect to their reputation or the record's quality.
  3. Okayplayer
    May 27, 2011
    85
    While this album definitely has its FFWD moments, the Beasties' lighthearted approach still manages to hand the smack down to crab rappers and school the bratty new kids on the block in one fell swoop.
  4. Rolling Stone
    May 2, 2011
    80
    We get the sound of master musicians in their comfort zone, doing everything their own way. Nobody would want to hear the Beasties try anything else.
  5. HipHopDX
    May 3, 2011
    80
    The Beasties feel permanently young again having crafted an album that is just as consistent, unhinged and enjoyable as Check Your Head.
  6. Chicago Tribune
    Apr 29, 2011
    75
    The Beasties fling boasts and nonsense with verve: MCA's raspy brio, Mike D's fine whine, Ad-Rock's comical incisiveness. All heritage acts should age with this much humor.
  7. The Independent (UK)
    Apr 29, 2011
    40
    Sadly, this is about as deep as their politics go on Hot Sauce Committee Part Two, the more articulate sentiments of To the 5 Boroughs having been largely abandoned in favour of fairly standard bring-the-noise, boast'n'diss hip-hop pablum.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 18 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 19
  3. Negative: 1 out of 19
  1. BIGREESE
    May 8, 2011
    10
    wow. everything about this album is great. its up there with licence to ill, if notwow. everything about this album is great. its up there with licence to ill, if not better..........................................................................................................................… Expand
  2. ZUL
    May 5, 2011
    10
    Very very good album with flavors of all their greatest. Fight For Your Right (Revisited) is absolute genius and is truly a must see. AnotherVery very good album with flavors of all their greatest. Fight For Your Right (Revisited) is absolute genius and is truly a must see. Another top effort from the legends that are the Beasties.… Expand
  4. martyd
    Dec 4, 2011
    10
    another great album from my all time favorite group!!!!!!!! Old school sound with modern hip-hop. The Beasties still have it. Totally whiteanother great album from my all time favorite group!!!!!!!! Old school sound with modern hip-hop. The Beasties still have it. Totally white boy rap with all the hip-hop sounds. They just keep getting better with age.… Expand
  5. mekaindy
    May 6, 2011
    9
    Another album which keeps the listener on its toes with something interesting coming round the corner. Hip Hop at its consistent best, if thisAnother album which keeps the listener on its toes with something interesting coming round the corner. Hip Hop at its consistent best, if this is the result of a disrupted work imagine the next treat they dish up.… Expand
  6. zmleslie
    Dec 30, 2011
    9
    After years of understandable delays, it seemed that the highly anticipated album would never escape development hell. Nevertheless, Hot SauceAfter years of understandable delays, it seemed that the highly anticipated album would never escape development hell. Nevertheless, Hot Sauce Committee Part Two was well worth the wait, and although the production values and mixing may be noticeably flawed at times, it is one of their best albums released and one of the best hip-hop records I've had the pleasure of listening to in years, and an optimistic sign of what is yet to come from their fabled Part One entry. Long live the Beastie Boys!… Expand
  7. Sinews
    Apr 12, 2020
    8
    Incidentally, Hot Sauce Committee, Pt. 2 is the perfect conclusion to a career as pivotal and bulletproof as the Beastie Boys had - nothingIncidentally, Hot Sauce Committee, Pt. 2 is the perfect conclusion to a career as pivotal and bulletproof as the Beastie Boys had - nothing somber, no attempts to pose as cutting-edge, no hopeful look into the future, just one final, excellent album to reaffirm what you were and what you'll always be.

    Of course, it was, in theory, only because of Adam Yauch's untimely death that this was the final Beastie Boys effort. Of course, it was intended to be part of multi-album project, but the first, ever-elusive Hot Sauce Committee, Pt. 1 was scrapped long before MCA's death. And besides, Beastie Boys would've never been so sentimental as to ever actually plan a finale. In essence, there isn't much one can say about Hot Sauce Committee, Pt. 2 that couldn't be said for the best of the Beastie Boys' works - it hits hard and it hits fast with uncompromising attitude, crisp, weird, sci-fi beats, and the immutable chemistry of three boys who loved each other and knew how to play off each-other's strengths. It doesn't have any pretense of being anything but a really, really good Beastie Boys record - it doesn't so much turn a cold shoulder to the trends of its time, as much as it charges forward doing its own thing, never noticing the trends it tramples over carelessly.    … Expand
  8. gertrude121
    May 25, 2011
    1
    Hard to listen to. The lyrics are amateurish and seem unfinished and this weakness is disguised with lots of vocal effects. Impossible toHard to listen to. The lyrics are amateurish and seem unfinished and this weakness is disguised with lots of vocal effects. Impossible to listen to this CD all the way through. "We come together like peanut butter and sandwiches", "I cuss, and grab my nuts", and "Suckers sniffing on socks, chewing on rocks" are as good as the lyrics get. The jokes aren't funny and the music is not on the level it should be. The only listenable song is the Make Some Noise single, and even that is not very good. (See the review by the Badger Herald which is suspiciously absent from the Metacrtic ranking.)… Expand

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