These Days...
by Ab-Soul
  • Record Label: Top Dawg
  • Release Date: Jun 24, 2014
User Score
7.0

Generally favorable reviews- based on 58 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 42 out of 58
  2. Mixed: 13 out of 58
  3. Negative: 3 out of 58
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  1. Bleat0124
    Jul 28, 2014
    0
    (My reviews focus largely on the writing of the album, with minor considerations towards beats and performances)

    There are three explanation to what happen on these days. 1. Ab Soul may have been trying to appeal to mainstream fan. 2. Ab soul may have been poking fun at mainstream rap 3. Ab Soul is done. Regardless of the explanation, this is one of the worst albums I've    (My reviews focus largely on the writing of the album, with minor considerations towards beats and performances)

    There are three explanation to what happen on these days.

    1. Ab Soul may have been trying to appeal to mainstream fan.

    2. Ab soul may have been poking fun at mainstream rap

    3. Ab Soul is done.

    Regardless of the explanation, this is one of the worst albums I've heard in any music genre this year especially in comparison"Control System" which was an almost classic.    … Expand

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Metascore
70

Generally favorable reviews - based on 17 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 17
  3. Negative: 0 out of 17
  1. Boston Globe
    Jul 25, 2014
    70
    Instead of another Black Hippy declaration, These Days... sounds very of-the-moment.
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  2. CMJ
    Jul 25, 2014
    60
    Ab-Soul puts out a solid release here, helped along by some big name features and big performances from his TDE labelmates, but at times These Days feels too generic or just flat out stale, ultimately failing to carry the Black Hippy torch in the ways that good kid m.A.A.d city and Oxymoron did for the crew.
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  3. NOW Magazine
    Jul 25, 2014
    80
    Ab-Soul is still the third man up in the stacked TDE crew (behind Kendrick Lamar and Schoolboy Q), but this album establishes him as the group’s most reliable Swiss Army knife: deft in a wide variety of sonic and thematic situations.
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