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RHYMEFEST "Blue Collar" Reviews
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AZRating: 8.2
Users rating: 7.7 |
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Release: 11 Jul 2006
Label: J-Records
Genre: Hip-Hop
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| AV Club |
Rating: 10.0 |
Blue Collar is more like a pound of taffy so delicious that it's easy to forget medicine is even involved.
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| BellaOnline |
Rating: 10.0 |
The best hip-hop CD of the year.
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| Popmatters |
Rating: 8.0 |
His voice is a uniquely expressive instrument, alternately energetic and tired, cracking around the edges and dripping weary charisma; when he turns this to deeper tracks, which he does fairly often on Blue Collar, it makes for a powerful punch.
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| Slant Magazine |
Rating: 8.0 |
Many of Blue Collar's tracks are simple genre pieces, stories about the lives of everyday Americans dealing with whatever tribulations come down the pike, but Fest's gift for honesty - real honesty, not that tired "keeping it real" crap - elevates them to powerful portraits of suffering.
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| AllHipHop.com |
Rating: 8.0 |
With Blue Collar (Allido/J), 'Fest successfully uses his major label debut to get Hip-Hop purists' heads nodding, club goers moving and everyone facing strife feeling a little better about life.
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| XXL Magazine |
Rating: 8.0 |
With Blue Collar, Rhymefest sidesteps thug life for real life and proves that image is nothing when it comes to making good music.
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| NobodySmiling.com |
Rating: 8.0 |
The album is like life, there are some plain fun track and there are some serious tracks and somehow Che from the south side ties it all together to a uniform album.
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| LA Daily News |
Rating: 7.5 |
A thought-provoking opus to the working class.
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| Giant Magazine |
Rating: 6.0 |
The most refreshing rap album of 2006.
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Users comments
| Noname |
Rating: 10.0 |
This album was the best "Hip-Hop" Album of the year I put hip-hop in qoutations because hip-hop is Dead as Nas state |
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