• Record Label: SLANG
  • Release Date: Mar 28, 2025
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 7 Critic Reviews

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  1. Positive: 0 out of 7
  2. Negative: 2 out of 7
  1. Apr 16, 2025
    55
    In Bad Boys, Smith was cool. In Hitch he was funny. In Twelve Pounds, he was vulnerable. He doesn’t seem to retain any of these qualities in his raps, instead opting for a smorgasbord of soundscapes designed to mask what could have been a revealing, emotionally interesting rap album.
  2. Apr 15, 2025
    24
    There are a lot of choir fills, growling electric guitars, and stomping drums, but the bombast is hollow. “Bulletproof” sounds like a “Wild Wild West” outtake, its country-and-western elements way overdone.
  3. 40
    It’s not a hilarious disaster, it’s not a tabloid tell-all or, you know, actually good. It’s Smith’s late career in a nutshell, just about getting over the line thanks to his star wattage, and all the weirder for its smoothed-out polish.