B.O.A.T.S. II #METIME

2 Chainz - B.O.A.T.S. II #METIME
Critic Score
Based on 11 reviews
2013 Ratings: #931 / 1115
User Score
Based on 123 ratings
2013 Rank: #515
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CRITIC REVIEWS

80
AllMusic

2 Chainz is still a punch-line rapper at heart, but B.O.A.T.S. II adds some Bootsy Collins charisma and ambitious ringleader style to his discography. Pick the sequel over the original and get ready for some stinky, dank, and fun me time.

80
SPIN

B.O.A.T.S II ups the production values like a true sequel should. Whereas his last album felt at times like a mixtape in expensive packaging, the beats here are full and gleaming with the fruits of success

75
Entertainment Weekly
The sequel from Atlanta’s gut-bustingest guest rapper suffers the same fate as his debut: One minute of Chainz’ absurdist couplets is gold, but the longer he coasts on his own, the more the shine fades.
70
PopMatters

There is certainly a lot of dumb going on across #METIME‘s hour, but its seamless transition from absurdity to a more pathos-oriented final third creates a dimension that acknowledges 2 Chainz doesn’t have to be a jester to entertain us. He just enjoys the ride.

70
Rolling Stone
His second LP further displays his knack for playfully hollering about money like he’s the first guy who ever had so much paper he couldn’t fold it.
62
Pitchfork

B.O.A.T.S. II is an album that feels happy just to exist, a rejection of the modern idea that album releases are serious events and all the tracks that sound like they were fun to make get relegated to bonus cuts or mixtapes.

60
NME

‘BOATS II…’ is your standard 2013 Southern hip-hop record, complete with ticking beats (‘Extra’), Auto-Tune (‘So We Can Live’) and eye-rollingly explicit lyrics (‘Where U Been?’).

60
XXL
He's perfected his lane, but he hasn't pushed anything forward or changed anything significantly.
60
NOW Magazine
2 Chainz likes to offset the raunchy with the heartfelt, but when the tone shifts to earnestly autobiographical, he sounds derivative.
50
HipHopDX

This time around, his formula—catchy hooks, spit-take worthy one-liners and danceable, Top-40 production—suffers from either overexposure or a lack of innovation.

30
Exclaim!

By the end of Me Time, the down-to-Earth, around-the-block-and-back 2 Chainz bores.

whocareeeees
60

Rest in peace to all the soldiers that died in the service
I dived in her cervix

Seb_Harris
60

An improvement on most fronts from his debut, with much better production and songwriting; but there are some hilariously bad duds that bring the entire mood down unfortunately.
Feds Watching and U Da Realest are the bangers, but Black Unicorn and Outroduction are some of the best tracks of his career.

ScottyPimpin
44

I've been disappointed by both the 2 Chainz projects that I had listened to before this so I wasn't expecting this one to be good. It was an upgrade on BOATS 1 but it still wasn't good. It baffles me how 2 Chainz can spit so good i nearly every feature I've heard of his and then not come close to his peak once on an album.

patriot_14
63

loved the output, unfortunately the songs can't really hold themselves up

lockjawjockjen
70

The quality drops off in the second half of the album, but it still has good songs with good bars

thearcticchxld
60

Worst album title ever

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Track List

1Fork
3:47
90
236
1:28
80
3Feds Watching
4:10
80
4Where U Been?
3:50
feat. Cap.1
70
5I Do It
6:13
80
6Used 2
3:45
60
7Netflix
3:55
feat. Fergie
40
8Extra
4:47
60
9U Da Realest
4:41
56
10Beautiful Pain
4:50
feat. Lloyd, Ma$e
70
11So We Can Live
6:46
feat. T-Pain
70
12Mainstream Ratchet
3:58
80
13Black Unicorn
4:45
80
14Outroduction
5:00
80
Total Length: 1 hour, 1 minute

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Added on: September 6, 2013