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Universal acclaim- based on 325 Ratings
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Positive: 288 out of 325
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Mixed: 14 out of 325
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Negative: 23 out of 325
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1fastdogAug 30, 2007
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RickWSep 3, 2007A few good tracks but tottally overated.
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GmanSep 13, 2007
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JoseHApr 13, 2008Too inconsistent to be rated more highly. Songs very from great to pretty bad - no song is as good as it might be. Original and catchy, sure, but great?
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mikes.Aug 19, 2007
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Awards & Rankings
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Although there are a couple of failed tracks--like the tediously slow 'The Turn'--most of this stuff is groundbreaking.
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There are the terrible lyrics and more than a few moments where her one-style-fits-all MCing grates, but there's also the politics that no one else would touch, an intelligence, colour and humour, and the added benefit of centrifugally heavy production. Skip a couple, and you're in for a treat.
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Q MagazineEverything here is a fantastic hybrid, M.I.A. and her platoon of producers thieving fashionable street sounds from Baltimore hip hop to Brazil's baile funk. [Sep 2007, p.89]