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- Summary: The debut full-length studio release for the Brooklyn rapper features guest appearances from Action Bronson, BJ The Chicago Kid, Chronixx, Kiesza, Dyemond Lewis, Raury, Maverick Sabre, and Elle Varner.
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- Record Label: Relentless
- Genre(s): Rap
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Positive: 22 out of 27
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Mixed: 5 out of 27
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Negative: 0 out of 27
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Jan 27, 2015B4.DA.$$ is a step in the right direction in New York hip-hop getting the attention and validation its long been denied.
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Jan 21, 2015The album is strikingly similar in tone to the mixtapes; he’s not trying anything different, but rather continuing what’s worked well for him. But everything is more refined and better expressed; there are also songs that stand out more as anthems.
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MojoFeb 2, 2015Bada$$ proves a natural born rhymer on a deeply rewarding showcase of advanced level lyricalism. [Feb 2015, p.89]
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Jan 20, 2015With B4.DA.$$, Joey Bada$$ finally lives up to the expectations that have been thrust upon him, delivering a confident debut steeped in the history of hip-hop and simultaneously engaged with the current cultural climate.
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UncutFeb 3, 2015The album's hard-slapping boom bap, laced with confident social realist flow, could only ever have come from New York. [Mar 2015, p.71]
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Jan 20, 2015Despite a few kinks and unnecessary tracks, B4.Da.$$ is a great album that revisits classic '90s boom-bap signifiers: the production, the delivery and cadences.
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Jan 15, 2015Once the novelty wears off, though, you’re left with an album that is too often set at the middling pace of a Fugees B-side, and a rapper whose technical abilities are nowhere close to those old timers he seeks to emulate.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 25 out of 27
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Mixed: 2 out of 27
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Negative: 0 out of 27
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