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Aug 21, 2014Blacc Hollywood makes you want to come along for the ride.
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Aug 21, 2014It feels like Wiz is mostly coasting through this album, giving his already loyal fans exactly what they'd expect from him and not much else.
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Aug 19, 2014Clamping down and checking out rarely sounded as good as it does on Blacc Hollywood, and sometimes it's even Greta-Garbo-"I want to be alone" good.
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Aug 22, 2014The lyrics on this album are more of the same.
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Aug 18, 2014While the misses hold Blacc Hollywood back from being great, Wiz still reminds listeners that regardless of what they’re looking for, he’s capable of providing.
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Aug 15, 2014Blacc Hollywood, an LP titled like it might bring some overarching theme, is the audio equivalent of the Transformers quadrilogy: a series of in-your-face, mass-appeal blockbusters that lure crowds and teach them nothing.
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Aug 15, 2014Wiz has never shied away from top-40-baiting tunes many rappers eschew, and he’s crafted a few more on Blacc Hollywood with varying degrees of success.
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Aug 15, 2014Khalifa sounds at his best when he sticks to his formula, instead of trying to tap into the (increasingly lucrative) rapper-with-a-heart-of-gold market.
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Aug 29, 2014Melodies coast, but they don’t always stick; everything’s too mannered, too clean, and the album is marred by a clinicality further punctuated by its bonus tracks.
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Sep 4, 2014If you’re in it for the live-it-up-till-morning jams (and they are entertaining), then you’re going to be spinning this record at plenty of house parties. But artistically speaking, the album isn’t a progression of the rapper’s career; it’s content to stay on the same eternally- stoned playing field as 2012’s O.N.I.F.C.
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Aug 20, 2014Hollywood is an improvement over 2012’s O.N.I.F.C., but it serves an overly similar purpose.
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Aug 19, 2014The record is 13 tracks long, sounds nice sometimes, and features Ty$, Juicy J, Project Pat, Curren$y, Chevy Woods, and Nicki Minaj, so it doesn't overstay its welcome and has decent taste in guests.
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Aug 19, 2014Every sign of the street has been gentrified, though the weed references never cease.
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Aug 19, 2014This sense of puzzled division remains the only really interesting thing about Blacc Hollywood, an album that's remarkable only as a ghostly portrait of a half-formed figure prowling the fringes of success.
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Aug 19, 2014The popular rapper’s fifth record is an alarming regression and a head-shaking misfire.
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Aug 19, 2014Khalifa’s 2011 breakthrough, Rolling Papers, compensated for his bland rapping with sticky pop hooks, and even his 2012 snoozer, O.N.I.F.C., offered some varied production to offset the tedium, but there are no such respites on Blacc Hollywood, an album every bit as vacant and unappealing as the artist who made it.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 30 out of 72
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Mixed: 23 out of 72
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Negative: 19 out of 72
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