In-Depth Rap Album Reviews & Ratings

Faces

Mac Miller·Rating: 8.1

Faces opens with Mac Miller declaring he should have died already, and the next seventy minutes prove he means it literally. This is not the college party rapper from Blue Slide Park or even the promi...

The Fall‐Off

J. Cole·Rating: 7.1

The Fall-Off arrives with the weight of a decade and the stated finality of a last will. J. Cole began writing this album in 2016, teased it in 2018, and spent the years since adding and subtracting p...

God’s Son

Nas·Rating: 7.1

God's Son is the album where Nas turned his mother's death into the sharpest writing of his post-Illmatic career. Released in December 2002, eight months after Ann Jones died of breast cancer in his a...