 | AZ Pieces of a Man
3.9
excellent
| Ranking: #119 for 1998 | |
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| 4.0 excellent | calcio | November 21st 12 |
Pieces of a black man, my thoughts travel! dam AZ is real as shit but only people who likes RAW hip hop can listen to him on a dayli basis plus people saw him as nas' wingman but really AZ is on that same great level
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| 4.0 excellent | Bedex | October 12th 21 |
Full of high quality songs individually, and flows exceptionally well overall for an album like this (a lot better than LP1), navigating transitions between widely different vibes very smoothly, but ultimately AZ's relatively monochrome albeit great delivery and the nearly hourlong runtime make the album feel quite too long. I'll be forgiving on the rating as there really are lots of tracks to keep here and maybe I was just not in the best spot for this. There are some very questionable things happening that the album could really do away with, starting with the loud bang on 1, the sex sounds on 5, or the excellent grim guest rapping section on 6 being stopped on a weird fadeout after 30s before the track moves on to something unrelated (though still cool with its sad vibes and great guests performances). The guests in general are great, and 3 with its prime era Nas feat really stands tall above the rest. Mostly this is somewhat sombre but with lighthearted delivery typical 90s East Coast hip-hop, but there is a lot of other things to be found eg. 8 being super funky or the colourful 14 which does help with the album length. 10 is really the only truly awkward track here, aside from that each song could be a cool track taken individually. 3.8
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| 4.0 excellent | Coast | February 7th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | jlsg | September 27th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Trundle | September 19th 20 |
| 3.0 good | Wolfe | January 14th 19 |
| 4.5 superb | Hawks | May 1st 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | NoRight | March 8th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Nights | November 2nd 16 |
| 2.5 average | theform | November 8th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | Sithese | September 25th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | dkkc | January 28th 15 |
| 3.5 great | cmilli | September 4th 13 |
| 4.5 superb | Dask | December 5th 12 |
| 4.5 superb | NJKoolG | November 21st 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | War | June 20th 11 |
| 4.5 superb | bigfave | November 28th 07 |
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