Critical Response
- "99 Problems" was number two on Rolling Stone's 2009 list of the 50 Best Songs of the Decade.
- Jack White has hailed the song, describing it as "the story of America ... in a nutshell, the story of all the struggles in America, black or white, class systems".
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