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Feb 8, 2017It’s a supremely listenable album, loaded with comfort-food hip-hop fit for booming club sound systems and earbuds on the subway alike. It’s also Sean’s most cohesive, personal work to date.
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Feb 8, 2017Is it going to be the album of the year? No. But it’s a very high quality, and very enjoyable.
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Feb 13, 2017Big Sean rises to the occasion on I Decided., arguably the best album of his career, and one that secures his spot as one of the top five artists in hip-hop today.
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Feb 14, 2017While it's undoubtedly a solid addition to Sean's catalogue, at the end of I Decided. it's the flows and instrumentals that are left with the listener, having upstaged what Sean is actually trying to say.
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Feb 8, 2017Big Sean exhibits growth and wisdom on I Decided., and that's definitely worth a listen. This is a solid effort.
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Feb 7, 2017While I Decided. may not light up the club like his past efforts, it shines a different, more nurturing light onto deeper parts of his soul.
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Feb 8, 2017I Decided. is a fresh statement that proves Big Sean is continuing to evolve.
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Feb 7, 2017On his fourth studio album I Decided, he positions himself as hip-hop’s poster-boy for all of these qualities [hard work, sacrifice, persistence, gratitude], but in rapping about such unassailable ideas, he comes away with uninteresting results.
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Feb 9, 2017hile he become incrementally more skilled over the years, not much else has changed. Throughout I Decided., Sean conflates the passing of time with growth and progress. Nothing on I Decided., however, suggests that he has gained perspective worth sharing or to which he should devote a whole album.
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Apr 24, 2017His technique has a strong propensity towards predictable stream-of-consciousness rhyming.
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Feb 13, 2017Without an adequate treatment or storyboard, [I Decided] feels listless and wanting immediate predicate. It lacks a ready place on the shelf.
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Feb 7, 2017More often than not, however, he gets swallowed by the larger-than-life brands and presences of those he surrounds himself with, like Eminem who steals Sean's thunder with the quality, agility and fire of his guest verse on "No Favors."
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Feb 21, 2017So while tastemakers are spinning his records and partygoers are responding (though it should be noted, that the biggest response, unsurprisingly, came to “Bad and Boujee”), the actual act of getting through Big Sean’s latest album is a tiring one.
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User score distribution:
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Positive: 77 out of 114
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Mixed: 31 out of 114
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Negative: 6 out of 114
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