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8.5
48068
8.5 |
The Quietus
An exhilarating, uneven, thought-provoking, over-egged, over-long, lucid, barnstorming, soul-infused hip-hop album of a type that, as I may have mentioned once or twice or five times, you just don't get any more
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7.5
46942
7.5 |
A.V. Club
Returns Fiasco to the hard social commentary of his first records
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7.0
46791
7.0 |
All Music
The lyrical value (clever, cerebral) is far greater than the musical value (sluggish, meandering)
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7.0
46787
7.0 |
Pop Matters
This is a fine collection of socially inquisitive rap music that would have probably even served as a competent swan song, had Fiasco actually decided to call it quits for good
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7.0
47079
7.0 |
Paste Magazine
He’s out of the creative wilderness that’s plagued him over the last few years. Fiasco is focused, and results may vary. We’re glad to have him back
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7.0
47658
7.0 |
Tone Deaf
Until he develops the sampling, beat-making and production skills (or works with someone who has them) that are required to make a truly great hip hop album, he will remain outside the upper echelons of great American rap
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6.8
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6.8 |
Pitchfork
Save for the usual nu-metal hard-rock vocalizing on many of the choruses, it is his most relaxed, rewarding effort in a while, and at its best, it feels like a re-introduction to a promising artist who spent some time in the wilderness
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6.0
47077
6.0 |
Spin
Food & Liquor II is fine and good. It's just not The Great American Rap Album
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6.0
46788
6.0 |
Rolling Stone
What other chart-topping star packs his songs full of radical politics, black-history lessons and sci-fi visions of environmental catastrophe?
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6.0
46789
6.0 |
The Observer
The tunes are pugnaciously mass-market, with debts to Kanye West
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6.0
47453
6.0 |
Consequence Of Sound
Some of these tracks give Lupe the room to triumph
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6.0
48692
6.0 |
Entertainment.ie
Typically ego-fuelled (consider the indulgence of the entirely black cover art), he avoids preachy moralising, but his missteps render the album merely tepid
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4.0
46790
4.0 |
The Guardian
Fiasco is not without skills or beliefs, but neither are as refined as his self-regard
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