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Sep 10, 20132 Chainz is still a punch-line rapper at heart, but B.O.A.T.S. II adds some Bootsy Collins charisma and ambitious ringleader style to his discography. Pick the sequel over the original and get ready for some stinky, dank, and fun me time.
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Sep 10, 20132 Chainz forges deeper emotional connections, but that surface is as entrancing as ever. B.O.A.T.S II ups the production values like a true sequel should.
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Sep 18, 2013He has done his best to deliver the kind of care-free, gaudy rap album that will be blaring from the speakers of house parties everywhere for months to come, and B.O.A.T.S. II #METIME readily delivers on that promise.
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Entertainment WeeklySep 18, 2013One minute of Chainz' absurdist couplets is gold, but the longer he coasts on his own, the more the shine fades. [20/27 Sep 2013, p.152]
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The SourceNov 26, 2013While there might be a few missteps her and there--particularly in the strength of some of the verses--most of the album works really well. [Nov 2013, p.93]
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Nov 15, 2013There is certainly a lot of dumb going on across #METIME‘s hour, but its seamless transition from absurdity to a more pathos-oriented final third creates a dimension that acknowledges 2 Chainz doesn’t have to be a jester to entertain us. He just enjoys the ride.
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Sep 10, 20132 Chainz’s fixations are the same: money, women , clothes, drugs, and lots of trap beats. Still, things come off more polished.
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Sep 10, 2013His second LP further displays his knack for playfully hollering about money like he's the first guy who ever had so much paper he couldn't fold it.
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Sep 18, 2013B.O.A.T.S. II is an album that feels happy just to exist, a rejection of the modern idea that album releases are serious events and all the tracks that sound like they were fun to make get relegated to bonus cuts or mixtapes.
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The WireDec 11, 20132 Chainz moves around the sort of eclectic brat selection that Lil Wayne was devouring in the mid-2000s. [Nov 2013, p.66]
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Oct 14, 2013BOATS II is your standard 2013 Southern hip-hop record, complete with ticking beats (‘Extra’), Auto-Tune (‘So We Can Live’) and eye-rollingly explicit lyrics (‘Where U Been?’).
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Sep 12, 20132 Chainz likes to offset the raunchy with the heartfelt, but when the tone shifts to earnestly autobiographical, he sounds derivative.
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Sep 11, 2013He’s perfected his lane, but he hasn’t pushed anything forward or changed anything significantly.
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Sep 18, 2013Lyrically, let us not sugar coat the situation and pretend that he's some sort of Pulitzer prize winner in waiting. But in conjunction with the upgraded music, 2 Chainz has definitely put more work into his punchlines and it is most welcome.
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Sep 11, 2013Loyal 2 Chainz supporters and casual fans may enjoy B.O.A.T.S. II: #MeTime as functional, turn up music. But listeners that don’t fall into either of those categories would do well picking up more uniform offerings from similar artists.
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Sep 10, 2013By the end of Me Time, the down-to-Earth, around-the-block-and-back 2 Chainz bores.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 31 out of 64
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Mixed: 9 out of 64
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Negative: 24 out of 64
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