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Kanye West & Jay-ZWatch the Throne78 Based on 10 reviews 2011 Ranking: #101 / 498
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They push each other and have fun doing it, and the result is a stadium-sized event-rap spectacle that still sounds like two insanely talented guys' idiosyncratic vision.
Watch the Throne succeeds in both and in giving us both sides of both artists—the braggadocio and the social consciousness—in nearly equal measure.
To be disappointed with Watch the Throne is to be disappointed with the rap game in 2011.
For all its shortcomings, Watch the Throne is still damn good.
Watch the Throne turns out to be a success, even if it isn’t the landscape-altering LP the world had hoped for.
The album overall is wholly inconsistent, with weak raps and weak productions poking holes through the greatness that's present.
| 91 | A.V. Club [src ] |
| 85 | Pitchfork [src ] |
| 81 | Coke Machine Glow [src ] |
| 80 | Drowned in Sound [src ] |
| 80 | PopMatters [src ] |
| 77 | Beats Per Minute [src ] |
| 70 | Tiny Mix Tapes [src ] |
| 62 | Paste [src ] |
| 60 | Consequence of Sound [src ] |
| 60 | musicOMH [src ] |
| # 9 - | A.V. Club |
| # 8 - | Bigger Than The Sound |
| # 32 - | Clash |
| # 16 - | Coke Machine Glow |
| # 45 - | Consequence of Sound |
| # 42 - | Drowned in Sound |
| # 35 - | musicOMH |
| # 50 - | NME |
| # 43 - | No Ripcord |
| # 3 - | Pazz and Jop |
| # 21 - | Pitchfork |
| # 56 - | PopMatters |
| # 5 - | Prefix |
| # 17 - | Pretty Much Amazing |
| # 6 - | Q |
| # 2 - | Rolling Stone |
| # 17 - | Slant |
| # 40 - | SPIN |
| # 10 - | Stereogum |
| # 37 - | The Guardian |