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- Summary: The fourth album for the Minnesota-based artist features guests David "Stokley" Williams, Chuck D, Freeway, and Joell Ortiz.
- Record Label: Rhymesayers
- Genre(s): Rap
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Positive: 10 out of 12
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Mixed: 2 out of 12
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Negative: 0 out of 12
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This album is so near-flawless it would be easy to go on and on about how you need to hear it as soon as possible.
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On Us, his deeply humane new album, that mad-prophet intensity can be exhausting, exhilarating, and downright transcendent.
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Us is uplifting, thought-provoking, funny, heartbreaking, and bootyshaking.
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There aren’t any questions about the quality of Us, an album filled with exceptional music; it’s a downright excellent release.
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Happiness hasn’t blunted his keen social insight, though, as he empathizes with latchkey teens (“Tight Rope”), reflects on friends trapped in the street life (“Slippin’ Away”), and rues slavery’s consequences (“The Travelers”).
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It's an album that draws its strengths from the simultaneous expression of sympathy toward the people in the songs and anger toward the shit they've gone through.
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As it stands, Us lies at a precarious crossroads of self-help preaching and black history compendium, succeeding at neither and exposing a serious disconnect between lyricist and producer.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 7 out of 8
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Mixed: 1 out of 8
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Negative: 0 out of 8
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BigTyBeatdownsOct 7, 2009
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AnthonyMNov 10, 2009
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ArthurSDec 7, 2009Amazing album. Ali makes lyrics that you really can relate to.
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MycroftWOct 7, 2009
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DaleWOct 30, 2009
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KendoJOct 14, 20098.5 I have precious few rap albums in my collection. Those few are awesome. This is now one of them.
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DawoudAOct 16, 2009
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