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8.0
82470
8.0 |
All Music
This rough, honest, and ambitious work is like his Raging Bull, taking the listener on a compelling, dirty journey that's also a connectable character study
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8.0
82545
8.0 |
Gig Soup
Weaved within glorious production, mighty worldplay, exotic lifestyle raps and climatic storytelling. Rick Ross puts together one of the best albums of his career to-date
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7.0
82471
7.0 |
Pitchfork
The motivated, slightly weary Ross heard on Black Market is a better fit for the moment than the bulletproof supervillain of old
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6.0
82559
6.0 |
Clash
There's a great Rick Ross album in here somewhere. If only the boss had abstained from some of his extravagant habits and used his editing sheers more cuttingly
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6.0
82892
6.0 |
Spectrum Culture
The more you listen to Black Market, the more the album falls short stylistically, lyrically and musically
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5.0
82517
5.0 |
PopMatters
Strangely, the album’s most glaring flaw is what used to be Ross’s greatest strength: sticking to concept
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5.0
82833
5.0 |
Rolling Stone
Raises doubts about how he'll fare in the era of the confessional, emotionally bare rap superstar
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4.0
82587
4.0 |
Q
Ross here is in danger of slipping into irrelevance. Print edition only
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4.0
82472
4.0 |
Tiny Mix Tapes
Too preoccupied with #RapTwitter and generating YouTube flame wars to capture the imagination of the listener
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4.0
82474
4.0 |
The FT
The songs are sludgy things, the sound of someone moving gingerly into uncertain territory
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