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Mixed or average reviews- based on 370 Ratings
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Positive: 183 out of 370
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Mixed: 120 out of 370
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Negative: 67 out of 370
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Jul 17, 2013
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Jul 8, 2013
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Jul 9, 2013It's just not very good. I keep seeing mentions of how this was knocked out in 2 weeks. Yeah, you can tell when you listen to it. It's not nearly on par with any of his previous work, sounds half hearted, and frankly the content is just dull and boring.
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Jul 10, 2013
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Jul 5, 2013An overrated album with nothing special. Songs are garbage. Lyrics are pathetic. The man has no talent and needs to learn how to rap. Not worth buying.
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Jul 22, 2013T of Toilette, R of Rigg, A of Astonish, S of Sucker and H of Horrible. This album is a perfect T-R-A-S-H, fans shoulda deal with it. Kiss kiss I'm leavin'.
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Jul 7, 2013The beats are semi decent, but the lyrics are some of the dumbest Hov' has ever done. My favorite song has to be the Holy Grail one specifically because of JT who kills it. However Jigga still fails to even try to one up any of the features on this. This would be an okay album, but I will not accept this from an artist who released The Blueprint and Reasonable Doubt.
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Aug 1, 2013Oh how the mighty have fallen. By far jayz worst album. I couldn't even get through it. All you jayz fans who give this a good album rating need to relisten to reasonable doubt and the blueprint and remember jay at his finest moments. Because there is one or two songs that don't make me wanna vomit ill give it a one
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Jul 20, 2013
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Aug 1, 2013Ok. The first few songs were listenable. Then he kept the same verse scheme. "blah blah (hustler) blah...(pause)...blah blah blah-blah" through the whole album. He even had Nas do it for a few bars. It was bad...real bad.
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Jul 19, 2013The album producers are widely recognized. but this time fail to capture the public, is a bad album, I'm definitely with The Blue Print 3.I think the next time they will need to do much more
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Jan 16, 2014
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Aug 4, 2014Easily the most disappointing rap release of the past decade. Jay-Z may have not always been as innovative as artists like Kanye, but he knew how to throw together a solid beat, and back it with his signature flow. Everything he tries on this album pretty much falls completely flat.
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Jan 16, 2015A horrible album one of the worst JAY Z Albums I have ever heard with only a few moments then and their it shows that JAY Z needs to rely on better production and needs to not use Timbaland beats and go back to the route he took on Blueprint III
Awards & Rankings
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The SourceDec 19, 2013Despite lackluster showings on the title track, and the anti-climactic first two verses of "Picasso Baby," a track presence that has stood the test of time for almost two decades eventually shines though. The second half of the aforementioned "Picasso Baby" shows off Jay-Z at his peak. [Sep 2013, p.97]
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Q MagazineAug 20, 2013Magna Carta... Holy Grail isn't a dreadful record but it's a redundant one. [Sep 2013, p.103]
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Aug 13, 2013Give it up to the one where Beyonce pledges gangsta devotion and, best of all, the one where the "billionaire" (he says) looks back at the betrayals of his own departed head of family with something that feels like dread.