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The Gifted

Wale

The Gifted

Third studio release from the Washington-based rapper who made his name with some much-admired mixtapes

ADM rating[?]

6.1

Label
Maybach
UK Release date
24/06/2013
US Release date
25/06/2013
  1. 8.0 |   PopMatters

    With no big time faux pas to be found,The Gifted is an extraordinary ‘gift’ to any hip-hop collection
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  2. 8.0 |   All Music

    Names like Just Blaze, Lee Majors, Cardiak, and No Credit supply the beats for this more mature/still flashy release, all of it adding up to Wale's win number three
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  3. 6.0 |   Spin

    Wale has lost many of the qualities that made people like him in the first place, but he's refined the elements that he's managed to retain
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  4. 6.0 |   Consequence Of Sound

    While The Gifted is a solid and even enjoyable effort, Wale doesn’t end up sounding like he’s at the top, just at the top of DC
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  5. 6.0 |   Slant Magazine

    Wale continues to struggle to define himself, which proves even more difficult on a label dominated by broad caricatures
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  6. 5.1 |   Pitchfork

    If he wants to be taken as a serious artist like the ones he spends most of the record emulating, he’s going to have to start taking some real chances and get real far out of the box
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  7. 5.0 |   A.V. Club

    Whatever survived of the brain behind Mixtape About Nothing has been permanently atrophied by luxury and laziness
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