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Entertainment WeeklyMar 27, 2014YG's storm cloud is more inviting than most rappers' clear skies. [28 Mar 2014, p.63]
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Mar 20, 2014Boldly, My Krazy Life is in the vein of Kendrick Lamar's good kid, m.A.A.d city, with a developed, knotty and, ultimately, deeply moral narrative.
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Apr 10, 2014For such an expansive, detailed album, it can be hard to forget this is just his debut record.
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Mar 24, 2014My Krazy Life is in essence a retooling of GKMC, and YG comes out, unexpectedly, as a talented and believable vessel for the story that the album tells to express itself.
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Mar 26, 2014YG and DJ Mustard have been dress rehearsing for nationwide stardom all along, but My Krazy Life is ratchet music’s Technicolor reveal.
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The SourceApr 18, 2014My Krazy Life is a solid debut. [Apr/May 2014, p.81]
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Mar 26, 2014This is the beauty of My Krazy Life, which manages to break the homogenous mould of the majors by retaining an unshakeable sense of local identity.
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Mar 20, 2014YG may just want to party, but the layered storytelling displayed here proves he could be the next transcendent, endlessly original West Coast superstar.
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Mar 19, 2014YG has grown mightily as a rapper, and because DJ Mustard, who produced more than half of the album, has found a way to make his sketches theatrical without sacrificing their urgency.
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Mar 18, 2014There’s no desire to transcend West Coast inner-city values, and YG does traverse the hyphy and nighttime sounds with aplomb. But the thrills do have a comedown at some point. For the album as a whole, it’s the potentially ephemeral replay value because of its on-the-nose focus on 20-somethings mayhem.
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Mar 19, 2014My Krazy Life dampens many of its heavy questions with refreshing musical forms.
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Apr 2, 2014My Krazy Life is a successful debut album that achieves most of what it sets out to achieve.
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Mar 19, 2014While My Krazy Life is YG’s debut, it feels more like an album-length celebration of Mustard’s ratchet revolution, a sound distilled from LA G-Funk, Atlanta snap and Bay Area hyphy.
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Mar 18, 2014Think of 50 Cent's Get Rich or Die Tryin' delivered by an inspired rapper in a post-Nicki Minaj world and you're close to the thrill of this inspired debut.
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Mar 18, 2014Though he doesn't quite have the narrative zeal of Kendrick Lamar or Ice Cube, YG rides beats with a singsong flow that's instantly winning.
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Mar 18, 2014With the exception of “Me & My Bitch” (a tale of two way infidelity) wedged in between a festive midsection, the Pushaz Ink crew has pieced together a well sequenced and cohesive package with My Krazy Life, but this aspect and his street credibility aren’t enough to win over naysayers expecting an overall greater performance.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 89 out of 101
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Mixed: 6 out of 101
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Negative: 6 out of 101
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Mar 22, 2014
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Mar 19, 2014