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For 888 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 62% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 33% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 73
Highest review score: 100 The Iceberg
Lowest review score: 15 Excuse My French
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 716 out of 888
  2. Mixed: 151 out of 888
  3. Negative: 21 out of 888
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    • 55 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Purple Naked Ladies
    The problem is that it's just too light on hip-hop, and too close to the other experimental work they've already done in other side projects.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Only 1 Flo, Pt. 1
    If this was pop music with terrible lyrics and shitty beats that hurt my ears, you know I'd tell you so (see Soulja Boy) but nothing on Only One Flo (Part 1) would make me want to change the station if I heard it on the radio.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    Full Speed
    The problem with Full Speed is that Kid Ink is often lost within his own album, as the listener anticipates the next song that's defined by its guest feature.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    WHAM
    It’s the definition of “it’s fine.”
    • 55 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Wolfpack Party
    If you can focus more on the beats and not so much on the words the overall experience improves, but even then it still tends to be monotonous.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Based on a T.R.U. Story
    This is, quite handily, so much of precisely "what is wrong with hip hop today"--tidily sequenced into an hour of mind numbing idiocy.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Look What You Made Me
    The problem here is that the near single-mindedness of his subject matter on Look What You Made Me shows EXACTLY what he's been made by one too many music videos with jiggling booty and coochie--a nymphomaniac.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Bad Vibes Forever
    It’s a good album. ... Emo rappers often tend to release short albums with even shorter tracks, and this one is suspiciously long and incredibly overloaded with talent.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Set The Tone (Guns & Roses)
    All of these guests can be distracting, but Ghostface’s performances are as you’d expect. It’s not quite as precise with the abstract vocabulary, a bit diet-Ghost if you will, but his flow remains sharp and his energy levels are high for a 54-year-old. .... The frustrating thing about “Set the Tone” is I have no idea who it is even aimed at.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Blood Money
    In terms of their long career of certified bangers it comes as a slight disappointment.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Goon Affiliated
    There's no mistaking or denying what you get on this CD--the same thing you got each time out before.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 15 Critic Score
    Excuse My French
    Littered with ignorance, braggadocio and uninspired production, French Montana's debut release is less about him and more about the guests that his label have brought in to help hide his lack of skills.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Timbaland Presents Shock Value
    What may be the most shocking about "Shock Value" is how Timbaland continually manages to stay one step ahead of the competition.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Wild Ones
    Buy it, enjoy it, and forget it. It's a fun bit of fluff.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Unleashed
    Hurricane Chris built on the strengths of "51/50 Ratchet" and did not repeat his previous mistakes, thus improving musically and lyrically as an artist.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Mail On Sunday
    He's a little bit Twista, a little bit Trick Daddy, and a whole lot Nelly. None of those things are negative, but the fact he can't distinguish himself from any of them isn't a positive.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Godfather Buried Alive
    Godfather Buried Alive is a worthy listen, showcasing Shyne's unfiltered honesty in its uncompromising form.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    At Your Inconvenience
    But make no mistake, it's an album that displays growth, maturity and improvement in almost every respect - he's certainly becoming a versatile and engaging artist.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Hood Billionaire
    It's the beats, the cameos and the sheer momentum of Maybach Music that propels Hood Billionaire forward.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    ADL
    The album is too long and too filled with tired tropes, but through the layers of sediment and rock I can still see specks of gold splashing around in the pan.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Jesus Is King
    As with every Kanye album, there’s some magnificent production on a majority of “Jesus Is King” courtesy of Pi’erre Bourne, Timbaland and Boogz, among others. ... Kanye just seems like he’s in his own world; disregarding what’s going on around him. Other times, Ye’s writing delves into eyerolling contradictions and ego-driven intentions.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    In The City
    In the City offers good production, excellent melodies, and - of course - the same song, idea(s), and kinds of guest appearances many times over.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    souljaboytellem.Com
    Boy tries to stretch his simple repetitive beat production style across an entire album and it fails miserably.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Reincarnated
    As it stands, the album has some decent songs but doesn't hold together as an album.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Faith
    It’s too slick and polished for a posthumous album.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 45 Critic Score
    For All The Dogs
    In nearly every way, it is downright unremarkable. The Toronto superstar has once again delivered a tiresome and inflated LP composed of 23 tracks, the bulk of which are only successful thanks to the guest features that aid them.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Voice
    Even though The Voice starts off a little slow with 'Swagger Right' and 'Houston Oilers,' once the album hits a groove it keeps it all the way through to the Mike Dean produced 'Grandma II' finale.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    Animal Ambition: An Untamed Desire to Win
    Despite being billed as his fifth album, it's nowhere near the level of his strong, yet largely overrated debut "Get Rich or Die Tryin'".
    • 53 Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    Universal Mind Control
    [comon] managed to record a whole ten scenes, I mean tracks, over the course of the year, and at least three of them are listenable.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 45 Critic Score
    Blockbusta
    Of the nineteen tracks on offer here, there are just too many skippables for a Busta Rhymes album. It may not be a proper Busta album, and it may be Busta’s way of sharing the flame, rather than passing the torch (as he so eloquently describes it), but in the context of Busta’s catalog, and the rest of 2023’s hip-hop releases, it frequently disappoints.
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