Shoot For The Stars Aim For The Moon
by Pop Smoke
User Score
6.6

Generally favorable reviews- based on 51 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 34 out of 51
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 51
  3. Negative: 8 out of 51
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  1. clem666
    Dec 7, 2021
    6
    I was very surprised by the amount of material Pop Smoke left behind. 'Shoot For The Stars Aim For The Moon' obviously had however the unavoidable need to be paved with many and many featurings. Some quite decent and appropriate, others totally irrelevant and money-directed. Some even dramatically overshadow Smoke's presence.

    Surprisingly, it feels much better to hear Pop Smoke explore    I was very surprised by the amount of material Pop Smoke left behind. 'Shoot For The Stars Aim For The Moon' obviously had however the unavoidable need to be paved with many and many featurings. Some quite decent and appropriate, others totally irrelevant and money-directed. Some even dramatically overshadow Smoke's presence.

    Surprisingly, it feels much better to hear Pop Smoke explore other genres than his classic drill approach. Even if the producers couldn't help but push Smoke into its less original and more superficial tendencies in order to satisfy an audience that is content with mind-numbing repetition. Some (few) punchlines are highly interesting and depict a part of the artist we didn't know much about but the rest is just composed of simple and widely common rap themes. There is a notable imbalance between bangers and slow jams all along the album. I was appalled by the amount of love and mellow songs. It is sad to admit that only his voice will remain as the most outstanding element of Pop Smoke's success.    … Expand
  2. thenapster005
    Jul 31, 2020
    5
    Average album. Not great, but not terrible......................................

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Metascore
70

Generally favorable reviews - based on 13 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 13
  3. Negative: 0 out of 13
  1. HipHopDX
    Jul 16, 2020
    82
    Shoot For The Stars Aim For The Moon offers a fleeting peek into the artist Pop would become—beyond Drill, beyond Brooklyn, beyond even the United States.
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  2. Consequence
    Jul 14, 2020
    67
    Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon neither blights nor burnishes Pop Smoke’s legacy. It’s fine. Better to remember Smoke as the dark-horse MVP candidate for summer 2019.
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  3. AllMusic
    Jul 13, 2020
    40
    Though the first two volumes of Meet the Woo lacked the bombast of Smoke's iconic singles, they demonstrated candor in their representation of the drill heavyweight; SFTSAFTM, by contrast, tarnishes the rapper's visionary style with predatory glitz as everyone jumps for a piece of the pie.
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