A Piece Of Strange
by CunninLynguists

A Piece Of Strange by CunninLynguists
Year: 2006
Release date: 2006-01-24
Overall rank: 2,461st   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
79/100 (from 80 votes)
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Award Top albums of 2006 (45th)
Award Top albums of the 2000s (404th)
Award Best albums of all time (2,461st)

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  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 83 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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A Piece Of Strange rankings

Rankings summary
Overall rank: 2,461st | 2000s rank: 404th | 2006 rank: 45th
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2026FritzTop 13 Music Albums of 20067/133
2026 paladisiactop albums, #1701-1800*42/84 -
2026 HaydenTop 100 Music Albums of the 2000s97/1001
2026Exist-en-cielTop 100 Music Albums of 200623/1004
2026sweetnessTop 100 Music Albums of the 2000s22/10016
2026HyggevinylTop 100 Music Albums of the 2000s21/10016
2026cicadelicTop 100 Music Albums of 200686/1001
2026 JMGL95Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s92/1002
2026ThaCrookedSpokeTop 100 Greatest Music Albums66/10035
2026 LedZepHip Hop - ATLiens, Bulletproof Wallets & Labor Days83/100 -
2026 HaydenTop 75 Music Albums of 200614/754
2026 paladisiac2000s, #201-300*14/68 -
2026BoxFLTop 46 Music Albums of the 2000s46/460
2025 Larcx13Top 56 Music Albums of 20061/565
2025BorderFreeAndrewTop 100 Music Albums of the 2000s23/10016
2025MaxStorm98Top 55 Music Albums of 20064/555
2025 Larcx13Top 100 Greatest Music Albums26/10068
2025ThuramThugoodTop 17 Music Albums of 20062/175
2025dougcummingsTop 22 Music Albums of 20061/225
2025HyggevinylTop 56 Music Albums of 20061/565
Total Charts: Help The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. 94
Total Rank Score: Help The total rank score. 649
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79/100 (from 80 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 79.0/100, a mean average of 78.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.5.

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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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Rating:  
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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Rating:  
100/100
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
Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | -1 votes (1 helpful | 2 unhelpful)
Rating:  
100/100
From 01/17/2021 20:41 | #264572
Top 5 rap album oat and tbh the most underrated one
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Rating:  
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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100/100
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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