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  • Summary: This is Paul White's first full-length project with vocals, which features Nancy Elizabeth, Danny Brown, Homeboy Sandman, Guilty Simpson, Jehst, Marv Won, Moe Pope, and Tranqill.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 11
  2. Negative: 0 out of 11
  1. Aug 31, 2011
    80
    Do not sleep. The lush soundscapes of the vivid and fascinating world of Paul White await.
  2. Aug 31, 2011
    80
    Rapping with Paul White combines a series of moods and ideas and ties them together with quirky skits and a varied palate of samples, all with the charm we've grown to expect from White.
  3. The Wire
    Dec 6, 2011
    80
    What could have ended up sounding like sketches, are now completed pieces,m full of suspense flashback, refrains ad other temporal tricks. [Oct 2011, p.61]
  4. Aug 31, 2011
    70
    Rapping With Paul White is part Afrobeat and/or ambient instrumental hip-hop, part energetic and demented rap, and part scavenger hunt of all the painfully obscure samples that sprinkle through White's beats.
  5. Sep 22, 2011
    67
    Considering how he and White have a past history of collaborating, you'd think that Guilty Simpson and White would be firing on all cylinders by now; instead, the Detroit hardhead unfurls cliché after cliché and drops vague, autobiographical teases that don't reveal much in particular.
  6. Aug 31, 2011
    60
    Sadly there are too many beats and samples that it can be hard to keep up with the ferocious pace, despite the obvious talent and flashes of genius on this record.
  7. Mojo
    Jan 11, 2012
    60
    A trip for questing bohemians of every persuasion. [Dec. 2011 p.96]

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