Reception
| Professional ratings | |
|---|---|
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | |
| Robert Christgau | B+ |
| Dusted | (favorable) |
| RapReviews | (9.0/10) |
| Rolling Stone | |
| The Source | |
| Spin | (10/10) |
| Trouser Press | (favorable) |
| Virgin Encyclopedia | |
In 1998, the album was selected as one of The Source's 100 Best Rap Albums .
In 2003, the album was ranked number 444 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
Vibe (12/99, p. 157) - Included in Vibe's 100 Essential Albums of the 20th Century.
Vibe (6/02, p. 108) - Ranked #3 in Vibe's "Top 10 rap albums."
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“But in the reception of metaphysical formula, all depends, as regards their actual and ulterior result, on the pre-existent qualities of that soil of human nature into which they fall—the company they find already present there, on their admission into the house of thought.”
—Walter Pater (1839–1894)
“I gave a speech in Omaha. After the speech I went to a reception elsewhere in town. A sweet old lady came up to me, put her gloved hand in mine, and said, “I hear you spoke here tonight.” “Oh, it was nothing,” I replied modestly. “Yes,” the little old lady nodded, “that’s what I heard.””
—Gerald R. Ford (b. 1913)
“Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion.... Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.”
—Rémy De Gourmont (1858–1915)