Reception
| Professional ratings | |
|---|---|
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | |
| The A.V. Club | B+ |
| BBC | (positive) |
| Dusted Magazine | (favorable) |
| IGN | (7.3/10) |
| Pitchfork Media | (7.9/10) |
| PopMatters | |
| Prefix Magazine | |
| RapReviews | |
| Rolling Stone | |
| Stylus Magazine | B |
Online music service Rhapsody ranked the album #3 on its "Hip-Hop’s Best Albums of the Decade" list. "Dilla has always been one of the most stylistically adventurous producers in hip-hop, flipping between the warm, jazzy boom-bap of his earlier years and the colder, more forceful electro of his middle period. But Donuts—in its fractured, ADD glory—presented the producer at his most naked. Culled from a series of beat CDs that had been circulating for some time, most of the songs on Donuts are little more than sketches. Only one song even approaches the three-minute mark, and a few barely even progress beyond simple loops. Though fragments, they collectively offer an intensely personal meditation on the soul music that dominated Dilla’s childhood in Detroit."
The album ranked number 9 on ClashMusic.com's Essential 50 countdown in April 2009.
In an interview for Pitchfork Media, Panda Bear of Animal Collective stated that Donuts was "By far the album I've listened to most over the past year, and I feel like almost any of the songs off there I could say is my favorite."
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