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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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    • 52 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    5.0
    If you're willing to put up with the headaches of finding and acquiring the right version though, 5.0 is a worthy follow-up to "Brass Knuckles" that should keep his millions of fans well satisfied.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    In My Mind
    He'll never win any of those freestyle battles but he can damn sure make a record that you'll enjoy listening to multiple times.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Rebelution
    Rebelution will leave you shaken, but not stirred.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 45 Critic Score
    The Fifth
    Not so much a victim of his own success, but an unwillingness to take risks in the name of music.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Todd Smith
    Make no mistake about it, this is a formulaic album.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    I Am Not a Human Being II
    I Am Not a Human Being II flashes moments of brilliance, but it's far from his best work.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 45 Critic Score
    A Moving Picture
    Amalgamating these with pop choruses makes the listening experience too scattered and ultimately leads A Moving Picture to stutter from frame to frame, and it doesn't help that the experience bows down to every chart formula around.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Come Home the Kids Miss You
    Jack Harlow’s attempts at grandiose appeal ultimately fall short on “Come Home The Kids Miss You”. The young rapper fails to inspire or interest and his attempts at grand standing charm are without merit.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Who You Are
    Quite honestly, Ke$ha is just more fun to listen to, even though Jessie J may ultimately have more career longevity. It's a decent enough album for the teenage dance set though.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Rotten Apple
    G-Unit fans and Lloyd Banks fans in particular will be satisfied with "Rotten Apple."
    • 50 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Lost And Found
    The flow is intact, the rhymes are well written, and even though Smith hasn't crossed that line from pop friendly into hardcore gangsta... he's definitely a bit more rugged this time out.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Tha Carter VI
    An album that feels more akin to an oddly shaped misfire of a satirical take than it does the latest installation of an ultra-successful series of rap albums.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Revival
    At least a third of the tracks are songs I could do without. The other two-thirds show that whether you love or hate the modern day Marshall Mathers, he's still as relevant as he ever was.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Eminem Presents: The Re-Up
    This one won't dissapoint Eminem, Shady or G-Unit fans, but it also won't blow them away.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Shock Value II
    The sound's still high quality on "Shock Value II," it's just not 100% his own any more - maybe 50%, maybe 75%, all depending on what the co-credits really mean.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Bridge: Concept of a Culture
    Flash and his collaborators provide good beats and rhymes so if this is what a "studio album" is for Flash in 2009 let's just hope there are plenty more on the way.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Hotel California
    Hotel California fails to deliver on any of the hype it had leading up to its release.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    #willpower
    It's hip, it's slick, it's polished, and it's an utter waste of time.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Guilt
    Despite having all of the right elements, this album seems far more forgettable than the aforementioned "The Last Kiss."
    • 48 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The King & I
    The danger though is that The King & I turns into a new version of the "Duets" album, simply rebranded as a Faith Evans album featuring snippets of her late husband. This is exacerbated on the second half of the album by one rap all-star cameo after another.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Monkey Business
    You'll keep looking for songs with more depth than "Ba Bump," only to find that they're basically all at that level.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    JACKBOYS 2
    “JackBoys 2” isn’t a bad JackBoys album or a bad Travis Scott album — it’s just repetitive and monotonous.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Brooklyn's Don Diva
    Foxy's ability to be honest about her trials and tribulations is refreshing, and the album is mostly successful regardless of her extra-long absence from store shelves.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Sorry for Party Rocking
    Where a lack of rhymes fail them, the hip-rock-electronica music carries them forward into music that's passable even when it's not profound. So long as you get it, LMFAO may not change the world, but it's a fun way to kill time. Just don't drink like they do or you'll kill brain cells too.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Fan of a Fan: The Album
    It's nothing we've not heard before.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce)
    It’s evident that his pen game remains sharp, but the aforementioned polarization causes Eminem to also remain as an acquired taste even now: You either like him or you don’t.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Authentic
    Despite his years away acting, LL hasn't really lost his touch rapping. What he has lost is a sense of focus and direction.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 35 Critic Score
    NAV
    The result is simply not up to par.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    True Magic [First Version]
    The beautiful mess of Mos Def makes for a bumpy listen.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Growing Up in Public
    We get predictable rock-rap joints like "I Need Church" and "Dead Man's Shoes"; embarrassing skits involving Robbie Williams; abysmal jokes at other celebrity targets; saccharin singles like "Lullaby" (which retreads most of "Read All About It") and "Little Secrets"; getting outshone on your own song by the Rizzle Kicks ("Name In Lights"); ripping off The Streets' old shit ("Fast Life"); a surprisingly soulful joint that clearly ended up on the wrong album ("Not Your Man"); the sound of a rapper all but giving up ("Shadow of the Sun") and subsequently ruining dope instrumentals like the title track.
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