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For 155 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 74% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 24% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.3 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 75
Highest review score: 100 Good Kid, M.A.A.D City
Lowest review score: 40 Paula
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 132 out of 155
  2. Mixed: 23 out of 155
  3. Negative: 0 out of 155
155 music reviews
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Compton
    It’s ambitious, it’s diverse, it’s exciting and when you hear you hear what made Dre a legend in the first place. No matter what the era, stream, CD or vinyl, Dr. Dre is just on another level.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dreams Worth More Than Money
    Meek understands his audience, they expect a monumental introduction, summer ready hits, sincerity and more hits. He does this all, with a bit of style and an abundance of swagger.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Summertime '06
    Vince sounds more alive on this album, that coldhearted monotone has found a bit of hope.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Love Story
    It may have been a little long for my liking, but that's a small price to pay for listening to something this remarkably unique.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Touch Down 2 Cause Hell
    A listen will be worth your time.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    I Don't Like Shit: I Don't Go Outside
    Not only does it reinforce that Earl is a capable lyricist, but that he’s growing his legs as a producer. It’s also an album where you can tell the artist found his voice, finally overcoming the pressures of expectation.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dark Sky Paradise
    Ultimately, only time will tell if Dark Sky Paradise becomes the first Big Sean album that I like more than his mixtapes, but this one probably has the best chance yet.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    If You're Reading This It's Too Late [Mixtape]
    The "album" feels like a bunch of random songs, some quality songs mind you, but still just a bunch of songs that don't add up to anything larger.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    B4.DA.$$
    This is a good album by all accounts, but it's just not enough to free Joey from rap purgatory.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    My Garden
    Kat Dahlia's My Garden is good music. Period.
    • 95 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Black Messiah
    The music on Black Messiah is quietly powerful, which is the most powerful form of power.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Pinkprint
    There's frankly very little chance I'd ever listen to this album again if I wasn't obligated to revisit it in a month via "1 Listen" rules, but Nicki's got her own lane and it's not a lane I'm going to roadblock.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    2014 Forest Hills Drive
    Forest Hills Drive has enough twists and turns to inspire an almost schizophrenic stream of reactions.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Cadillactica
    This isn't a great rap album, it's just a great album. Period.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Under Pressure
    This has the feel of a full, complete body of work, one embedded with nuances, themes and a larger, interwoven framework that nobody could digest in one listen.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    RTJ2
    From "Jeopardy" on, Run the Jewels 2 is uppercut after uppercut.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Paperwork
    Paperwork is at its most compelling when it feels like he’s being the most autobiographical.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    X
    There aren't many singers who have both the vocal ability and range of delivery to traverse a musical landscape that vast, but Brown does it all while impressively managing to maintain a real cohesion throughout X.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Seen It All: The Autobiography
    On the whole though, while it might not be a classic, Seen It All will go down in hip-hop history as yet another dope album from an artist who's had an enormous (although under-rated) impact on rap.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Blacc Hollywood
    It feels like Wiz is mostly coasting through this album, giving his already loyal fans exactly what they'd expect from him and not much else.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    These Days...
    These days, Soul’s money tree has blossomed and with it, expectations have grown and relationships and trust are harder to come by. But for now at least, Soul is in control.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Nobody's Smiling
    For the most part, Common's been an almost staggeringly consistent presence in music for years, and then fittingly, his new album Nobody's Smiling, is as good as anything he's done.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Animal Ambition: An Untamed Desire to Win
    The animal spin on Get Rich or Die Tryin’. 50 Cent attacks with that mindset on his 5th album, and it’s a solid entry in a very up and down career (in music at least).
    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    RetroHash
    The album is fun, enjoyable, and well-done.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Z [EP]
    Z is a mood piece, 10 homogenous tracks that breeze by and flow on a winning combination of sweet vocals, sweeter hooks, and the sweetest of melodies and instrumentals.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Honest
    Future’s influence might not ever reach the same height as that famous duo’s, but efforts like Honest certainly dispel his consistent-hit-man-of-little-substance status (a la T-Pain).
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Mastermind
    The album might not be nearly good enough to launch him into any "classic" conversation, but it also not nearly bad enough to be viewed as a sign of his impending demise.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Oxymoron
    While his darker material seems unchanged by fame, it’s really his lighter, more radio-friendly material that gets taken to the next level on Oxymoron.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Cilvia: Demo [EP]
    A well-produced, collective backdrop is the foundation of Cilvia’s creative world, but it is Rashad’s poetically penned, energetically delivered raps that gently tip the scale towards a point of well-rounded balance.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Lord Steppington
    The album’s content is narrow, and while there are certainly no duds here, things do get a bit predictable as the album progresses. However, the constant non-sequiturs and familiar production doesn’t take a whole lot away from the overall value of the collection.
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