Black Up (studio album) by Shabazz Palaces

Black Up by Shabazz Palaces
Year: 2011
Release date: 2011-06-28
Overall rank: 1,802nd   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
76/100 (from 197 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2011 (41st)
Award Top albums of the 2010s (293rd)
Award Best albums of all time (1,802nd)
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Average Rating: 
76/100 (from 197 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 5% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.4/100, a mean average of 75.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.5.

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90/100
From 09/29/2021 19:27
This was so ahead of its time and still sounds fresh 10 years later. Incredible.
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From 06/03/2019 21:59
Uma forma completamente nova de fazer hip hop!
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90/100
From 12/01/2017 20:03
So weird but in the best way possible :O
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90/100
From 04/03/2012 17:40
Wake up people! The future of hip hop is happening right here as we speak! This is the future. This is an incredible hip hop album from an up and coming hip hop prodigy. I hope there are many more like this to come. This is the third best hip hop album of the decade thus far only behind Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy and Big Boi Sir Lucious Left Foot... This is not a fad, it will not fade with time. This is hip hop greatness and it will last, you can quote me on that.
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From 02/08/2012 09:45
I took way too long to get around to listening to this. DOPE!! Great variety, especially.
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From 12/25/2011 20:38
Didn't pay that much attention to the lyrics (the first time I listened to it), but the production is great... I much prefer this kind of hip hop (indie, as Hayden calls it; Madvillain also fall into this category) than the pop rap of Drake, Kanye, Jay-Z, ...
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55/100
From 12/15/2011 21:50
The mc behind digable planets trades jazz-hop for new-century dub-hop to similar success. Thing is, i like the idea and the overall sound of both of those albums more than i like their individual songs.
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85/100
From 10/01/2011 21:14
Indie hip-hop seems to be getting popular with all the Wolf Gang stuff. This was a good attempt, but the lyrics are a bit weak. I'm starting to think that The Cool Kids, OFWGKTA, The Weeknd & Shabazz Palaces could be the start of a new generation of hip-hop...
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