Magna Carta - holy grail
Jay-Z
Emneord
Anmeldelser (4)
Bibliotekernes vurdering
d. 4. apr. 2014
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Thomas Tiedje
d. 4. apr. 2014
<i>"Is this a drug dealer's dream?/'Cause all I ever see is niggas dyin' from disease",</i> rapper Miamis fremmeste player Rick Ross på sit sjette album, og det er som om alvoren og seriøsiten endelig er ved at indfinde sig. Det har ellers ikke skortet på tegneseriehistorier om penge og rigdom, opnået på tvivlsom facon, indtil nu hos Rick Ross, men alle kan jo blive trætte af at lege Joakim von And. Der er masser af hot shots med her, blandt andre Jay-Z, Jeezy og Kanye West. Sidstnævnte står for skivens bedste nummer "Sanctified", bygget over en gammel soulsample fra Betty Wright.
Pitchfork
d. 6. mar. 2014
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Craig Jenkins
d. 6. mar. 2014
"Mastermind finds Rick Ross in the same predicament his mortal enemy 50 Cent experienced when they squared off in 2009. He's badly in need of reinvention after running out of recipes for his gangster shtick, but he's too set in his ways to change direction six albums in ... Mastermind finds Ross at a Truman Show moment: his character's reached the logical end of its universe. Going forward, he can either break out or keep up a jig he knows that we know is way past expired".
Gaffa [online]
d. 3. mar. 2014
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Maria Therese Seefeldt Stæhr
d. 3. mar. 2014
"Med dette sjette studiealbum er det på den måde en stadfæstelse af, at det at være "rapstjerne" ikke altid handler om at være en dygtig rapper. Ro$$ har oceaner af attitude og han er hård i filten. Hans gangsta-stil og tilbagelænede hårdhed er måske den, der gør ham interessant. Men det alene gør ikke det samme for hans album".
NME
d. 3. mar. 2014
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Thom Gibbs
d. 3. mar. 2014
"There's no doubting that the beats on Mastermind, as you would expect from a production roster including Kanye West, Jake One, JUSTICE League and The Weeknd, are exceptional, lush and bombastic and full of zaftig soul samples. So, really, it's all down to Rick and whether he shows up. And he does. On The Devil Is A Lie, on which Jay Z also kills it, he is almost possessed, roaring and gasping his lyrics".