The Main Ingredient
by Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth
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Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth bestography
The Main Ingredient is ranked 2nd best out of 3 albums by Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth is Mecca And The Soul Brother which is ranked number 3803 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 385.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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The Main Ingredient track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| 04/15/2026 12:41 | Exist-en-ciel | 9,585 | 70/100 | |
| 02/07/2026 22:40 | saltysurprise | 2,944 | 83/100 | |
| 03/27/2025 16:23 | conallmalone | 1,732 | 74/100 | |
| 01/13/2025 11:42 | TonySayers61 | 24,374 | 64/100 | |
| 12/24/2024 02:45 | PapaShiz86 | 11,290 | 79/100 |
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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 75.9/100, a mean average of 76.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.6.
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Larcx13 11/17/2020 14:27 | #260957
The same people who dislike gangsta rap and hardcore hip hop look over this record for being too soft.... lol this is the alternative for people who can't listen to Live and Let Die or Death Certificate. Grow up and open up your ears. I prefer this one to Mecca And The Soul Brother.
Hayden 10/26/2015 20:16 | #152049
Does this seriously only have 8 vote? Come on BEA...
ProfessorSquid 04/24/2013 20:58 | #74376
While much of the rest of the Hip Hop world was becoming immersed in the violence of street life (not necessarily bad) these two were still keeping things real cool.
I prefer this to Mecca and the Soul Brother. Just great boom bap hip-hop, perfect for a summer day.
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