A Piece Of Strange (studio album)
by CunninLynguists

A Piece Of Strange by CunninLynguists
Year: 2006
Release date: 2006-01-24
Overall rank: 2,426th   
Average Rating: 
79/100 (from 78 votes)
     
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Overall rank: 2,426th | 2000s rank: 405th | 2006 rank: 44th

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79/100 (from 78 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 79.3/100, a mean average of 79.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 80.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.3.

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From 12/01/2023 17:23 | #300236
Album Rating: 89.29
(1,250/14)

24.01.2006

CunninLynguists (US): A Piece Of Strange

1. "Where Will You Be?" 1:03 - 88
2. "Since When" 4:02 - 89
3. "Nothing to Give" 3:30 - 99
4. "Caved In" (featuring Cee Lo Green) 3:17 - 90
5. "Hourglass" 3:21 - 79
6. "Beautiful Girl" 3:24 - 85
7. "Inhale (Interlude)" 2:02 - N/A
8. "Brain Cell" 4:23 - 79
9. "America Loves Gangsters" (featuring Tim Means) 4:28 - 87
10. "Never Know Why" (featuring Immortal Technique) 3:51 - 76
11. "The Gates" (featuring Tonedeff) 4:05 - 100
12. "Damnation (Interlude)" 1:38 - N/A
13. "Hellfire" 2:29 - 91
14. "Remember Me (Abstract/Reality)" 4:26 - 98
15. "What'll You Do?" 2:43 - 90
16. "The Light" (featuring Club Dub) 5:30 - 99

Total length: 54:09
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90/100
From 07/23/2022 19:32 | #287764
How did I not hear about this before know?

The jazz elements here are amazingly mixed. It's like someone took A Tribe Called Quest album and polished it while maintaining the soul of it.

Thank you Best Ever Albums! I would not have found it if not for this site! I wish there was a vinyl of this out there. Doesn't seem so.
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From 12/17/2021 07:36 | #277606
Album Rating: 87.43
(1,224/14)

1. "Where Will You Be?" 1:03 - 88
2. "Since When" 4:02 - 86
3. "Nothing to Give" 3:30 - 96
4. "Caved In" (featuring Cee Lo Green) 3:17 - 90
5. "Hourglass" 3:21 - 79
6. "Beautiful Girl" 3:24 - 83
7. "Inhale (Interlude)" 2:02 - N/A
8. "Brain Cell" 4:23 - 79
9. "America Loves Gangsters" (featuring Tim Means) 4:28 - 87
10. "Never Know Why" (featuring Immortal Technique) 3:51 - 76
11. "The Gates" (featuring Tonedeff) 4:05 - 99
12. "Damnation (Interlude)" 1:38 - N/A
13. "Hellfire" 2:29 - 87
14. "Remember Me (Abstract/Reality)" 4:26 - 88
15. "What'll You Do?" 2:43 - 90
16. "The Light" (featuring Club Dub) 5:30 - 96

Total length: 54:09
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From 01/17/2021 20:41 | #264572
Top 5 rap album oat and tbh the most underrated one
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95/100
From 06/22/2020 11:09 | #254104
This is one of the greatest Hip Hop records of all time. The production, the concept, the lyrics, the features from Immortal Technique and Tonedeff... everything about this record is pure gold. Notable songs: Beautiful Girl, Nothing to Give, Never Know Why, The Gates, Caved In.
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From 06/21/2017 00:40 | #192953
Probably the best album that nobody on this site knows about. Production is just godly on this.
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