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| n/a by Popmatters |
Illmatic was stylistically brilliant and incalculably influential, but Untitled is a more mature, emotionally-driven, and philosophically-complex piece of work. Its also a masterpiece. |
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| n/a by Billboard |
From Project Roach, where Nas says that the NAACP's burial of n*gger was pointless, to Untitled, which discusses Louis Farrakhan's role in America, the Queens MC impresses his listener while provoking social and political thought. |
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| n/a by www.slantmagazine.com |
The lyrics are all terrific; the beats, not so much. |
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| n/a by www.calendarlive.com |
More often than not, though, Nas offers windy whines instead of innovative ideas. |
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| n/a by www.sputnikmusic.com |
Untitled is far from terrible, but it's still a deflating, disappointing, infuriating listen. |
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| n/a by www.ew.com |
It's refreshing to hear a complicated record that doesn't shy from grown-up ambition. |
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| n/a by www.boston.com |
The new album, immersed in a soul-funk sound with guest spots from the Stylistics and the Last Poets, is contradictory at times, but the idea of building hope through about an hour's worth of music supersedes any effort to brew controversy. |
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| n/a by Pitchfork Media |
On Untitled you get to decide whether you prefer Nas thoroughly exploring half-assed concepts or half-assedly exploring thorough concepts. |
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| n/a by www.avclub.com |
Nas finds a wonderful groove in its final third, as the rapper takes a break from heady theorizing to rap allegorically from the perspective of a cockroach and pens a love song to fried chicken. |
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| n/a by www.villagevoice.com |
Controversy aside, without any truly addictive tracks, you can't consider Nas's latest among his greatest. But it's hard not to appreciate the effort. |
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| n/a by www.nowtoronto.com |
Taking a tip from William Coopers conspiracy theory tracts, Nas deftly delivers attention-grabbing rhymes with a sickly slick flow yet offers little backup for his inflammatory insinuations in the way of persuasive substance. |
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| n/a by Rolling Stone |
This is a sprawling, furious, deeply ambivalent theme album about institutional racism, the failures of black leadership and the pathologies and promise of early-21st-century African-American life. |
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| n/a by www.tinymixtapes.com |
Ultimately, Nas decision to sacrifice lyrical and aesthetic sensibility for controversy, hype, and pop-appeal exposes the commodification and hollowness of his artistic voice and vision. |
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| n/a by uk.launch.yahoo.com |
Brilliantly sequenced, the album reaches a euphoric climax with the Yes, we can change the world hook of 'Black President,' a close cousin of Lupe Fiasco's 'Superstar.' |
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| n/a by www.cokemachineglow.com |
Like a professor spewing a semi-clever lecture on civil rights and contemporary left politics where hes pretty good at rhyming his facts but acts like rhyming is all the sinew that his presentation needs to connect the bones of his argument. |
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