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Curtis

METACRITIC REVIEW 64%

Slant Magazine
50 doesn't fare any better on the softer side: 'Amusement Park' proves he's one of the worst lyricists alive.... It's not just the metaphors, though, it's the execution.

Stylus Magazine
There isn’t an ounce of life in Curtis.

NOW Magazine
50 is back with his larger-than-life persona and even bigger Mack 11, remaking his classic first album for the second time, with tiresome results.

Prefix Magazine
What's missing where these lame boasts exist in Curtis is the vulnerability of moments on The Massacre (especially 'A Baltimore Love Thing') or any of the rich narrative that graced his first album, not to mention any of the goofy, sing-along catchiness that previously made his singles chart events. Musically 50's collaborators don't feel like they've brought anything near their best to the table.

Pitchfork
50's new album is a blatant rehash--a bottom-line sequel that insults the same audience it mindlessly panders to.

Billboard
Though the album is good, for an artist of 50 Cent's caliber, it's not great.

Rolling Stone
The I-need-love pop tunes are not getting any better, even with Timbaland and Justin Timberlake in the stripper ditty 'AYO Technology.' 'Follow My Lead” is an inexplicable Robin Thicke duet and 'Amusement Park' is even sillier. Much better is 'All of Me,' with Mary J. Blige. Wailing, "I got a feeling like I'm fiending on crack," Blige steals the show without even trying.

RapReviews.com
It's a solid performance, that is both better and worse than it could have been.


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Graduation

METACRITIC REVIEW 80%

Stylus Magazine
Musically, at least, it’s the most accomplished thing he’s ever done.

Los Angeles Times
The bliss that does surface on Graduation is all in the grooves, which range further than West has ever gone before.

Prefix Magazine
West's writing and delivery has improved since "The College Dropout," though they're still marked by both a cleverness and a clumsiness.

Billboard
An impressively creative hip-hop album that will hopefully inspire West's peers to try new sonic avenues.

NOW Magazine
West delivers another failsafe collection of sharp, soulful songs, exposing his new affinity for synths and electronic drums while adding new lyrical ground to that campus-sized ego.

New Musical Express
Despite its five or six great tracks, Graduation feels more and more like the work of a follower, not a leader.

Tiny Mix Tapes
Like a good term paper, much of Graduation sounds great in theory but flounders in its execution.

Pitchfork
While it might not be as substantial a record as we're used to hearing from him, it is his greatest leap forward, and further proof that few are as skilled at tracing out the complicated contours of pride, success and ambition as he is.

WuTangClan127

curtis was garbage....

JordanKingIV

Old shit .

240KA

sure was. it was the massacre part two

LONGBEACHSFINEST

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Hakaroodi

nah man they hatin' on Fif a lot.. Curtis couldda been better a lil i agree... but it wasn't garbage..

look at I Get Money, Curtis 187, Come n Go, Touch The Sky, I'll Still Kill, My Gun and Man Down as the gangsta shit..

and Fire, All Of Me, Follow My Lead, Peep Show and Smile as the soulful shit...


thats 12 records out of the 17 (discludin' the Intro)... and y'all sayin' its garbage.. quit hatin' mayne...

go cop Curtis...!!

The only thing i tthink was missin' was joints like Ryder Music etc...

BlackBauer

Curtis is hot as hell.. only thing its missin is Banks .. and it beats The Massacre in every aspect..

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Southside50MOB

curtis was bascially the massacre except i thought the massacre was alot better curtis was bascially C&G ( club and gangsta)

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240KA

it was hot garbage

vicious01

yeah curtis is ok, but graduation is just way better.

BANKS-THE-ILLEST

massacre is no way better than curtis!!! first 4 tracks on curtis are pure classics..real gangsta shit, not that bubble-gum rap of the massacre..

Kanye album is straight fire though!!!

AceCantBStopped

Grad.>>>Curtis....
Im not a hater just statin my thoughts

jas_311

i think the reviews say it all.

jas_311

personally i think if 50 thought he could sale another 10 million off his name alone and put out some wack shit he'd do it in a sec, but kanye is more a about quality than quanity.

pujols4mvp

Im glad LonghBeachsGayest is banned.

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tshd8

propsssssssss

240KA

how do you figure on track 2 and 4 he sounds likes Two five, and used a em flow on track 2

Rider

Hell yeah Massacre is better than Curtis, Massacre had bigger hits, and much more gangsta shit in it than Curtis had, the quality of Massacre left no doubts about it...but if you look at Curtis , you'll see that it's pure garbage...

gunitscarfacez

Curtis>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>kanye Career

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lmaestro2.0

kanye edges it.curtis is aight

MIke Morrison 18

i personally like curtis better it wasent the greatist outa him but its still good stuff. i like graduation lyrics in some songs but the beats are wack

drestorch

imo both of em were 50/50

dunson23

no massacre was better than this trash

qbancohibas711

props ...nice to see other people agree that curtis was a lazy ass album and graduation was a good album