Reception
| Professional ratings | |
|---|---|
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | |
| The A.V. Club | B+ |
| Entertainment Weekly | (B) |
| The Guardian | |
| The New York Times | (mixed) |
| The Observer | |
| Pitchfork Media | (5.0/10) |
| Rolling Stone | |
| Slant Magazine | |
| The Village Voice | (mixed) |
Kingdom Come was a commercial success, with 680,000 copies sold in its first week of release. This also made it Jay-Z's highest selling album within one week. The album debuted at number 1 on the Billboard 200. As of December 14, 2006, the album has been certified platinum in the United States.
Kingdom Come opened up to generally positive reviews. It currently holds an average score of 69/100 on the website aggregator Metacritic. Andy Kellman of Allmusic wrote: "...the album is a display of complacency and retreads — a gratuitous, easily resistible victory lap — that very slightly upgrades the relative worth of The Blueprint²." Entertainment Weekly wrote: "Four duds out of 14 tracks isn't a fireable offense. But shouldn't the corner-office mogul demand more of his top earner?" Many critics criticised the album for it "not being the comeback fans were expecting."
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