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THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G. "Duets: The Final Chapter" Reviews
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AZRating: 4.0
Users rating: 7.8 |
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Release: 20 Dec 2005
Label: Bad Boy
Genre: Hip-Hop
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| StylusMagazine |
Rating: 6.7 |
Any album of this sort is largely gonna rise or fall on the quality of its producers, and this one's got 'em like you want.
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| Jam! |
Rating: 6.0 |
There's nothing you could consider a classic here.
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| PitchFork |
Rating: 4.2 |
This attempted resuscitation, this half-assed memory-stirrer, is a project of the crassest order.
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| E!Online |
Rating: 4.2 |
Thanks to barrel-scraping releases like this, dead rappers seem to be the only rappers with long-term careers.
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| RollingStone |
Rating: 4.0 |
Unlike the bottomless well of posthumous 2Pac vocals, there obviously wasn't much left in Biggie's vault when he died at age twenty-four in 1997.
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| Popmatters |
Rating: 3.0 |
There's a reason why most of Biggie's verses were left on the cutting room floor: you can tell they're not up to his standards.
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| PrefixMag |
Rating: 2.0 |
Duets offers nothing new or of value to the Biggie fan.
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| Dotmusic |
Rating: 2.0 |
For the younger audience who know Biggie mostly by reputation, it's the equivalent of watching the coverage of a celebrity funeral just to see who shows up.
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Users comments
| Me |
Rating: 9.0 |
Yall must be dumb. These songs are from biggie and it shows. F*** yall motherf***ers (thug life) |
| Hip-Hop |
Rating: 5.0 |
This album don't do B.I.G. no justice. Its just another way for Diddy to make money off of B.I.G. all the songs seems half-assed. For example "Spit Your Game" sucks compared to "Notorous Thugs" off of Life After Death. Another is "Beef." This song's exactly the same as "What's Beef" besides the extra verse by Mobb Deep and plus the beat is worse than the original. Besides all the songs sounding worse than the original, some songs B.I.G. isn't even on (Ex: It Has Been Said, I'm With Whateva). So i give this album a 5 out of 10 because some songs are actually good (Ex: Livin' In Pain, 1970 Somethin', and Hold Ya Head). Overall this album will dissapoint B.I.G.'s loyal fans, and make new listeners wonder why hip-hop heads love him. |
| Robert |
Rating: 6.0 |
The album is all right. The Notorious B.I.G. is quite an incredible man and will never be forgotten. |
| Brown |
Rating: 7.0 |
This is just Ready To Die and Life After Death, but with different clothes. More recent clothes if you ask me. The songs have been put into a new, more to date, jacket. Thanks to 'Duets', I got to know B.I.G. and made me buy RTD and LAD. Look at it as The Notorious B.I.G going more mainstream. But that doesn't make it a bad CD. My love for B.I.G. is everlasting. |
| t! |
Rating: 8.0 |
This album is one of the best from a man who went through a whole shit load of stuff an he raps like hes dead an thats how he is now. and he has some serious shit written in this album if you read hold ya head |
| Rob |
Rating: 10.0 |
This album was one of a kind and should never be put to rest |
| Kamo |
Rating: 8.0 |
This is a dead rapper flowin' through from heaven i can't help it but rather ask myself where will BIGGIE be now togetha wit PAC. Thanks P.DIddy keep bringin' mo'. |
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