Deadringer

RJD2 - Deadringer
Critic Score
Based on 9 reviews
2002 Ratings: #16 / 259
User Score
Based on 158 ratings
2002 Rank: #175
Liked by 20 people
July 23, 2002 / Release Date
LP / Format
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Enneti
70

00's CLASSICS #40:

Ghostwriter is probably one of my favorite song of all time, I love the sampling, the horn beat is insanely addicting - overall a massive banger. The rest of the album is just good groovy hip hop beats, nothing to go crazy about, but solid nevertheless.

ZeroTaste
71

Ok.

MasterCrackfox
83

How Rjd2's debut album on Definitive Jux didn't "change the muthafuckin' world" as Def Jux mastermind El-P claimed it would, in many ways, is beyond me. Of course, Deadringer wasn't a completely game-changing experience, especially with DJ Shadow existing a decade prior. But in a world where instrumental hip hop, technical sampling, turntable prowess, and experimental beats still make waves in many listening circles one would think this album would get thrown around in the ... read more

Sammy02103
45

I'm sorry but it's pretty disappointing and it has no identity. On one hand, it sounds like Moby then on the other sounds like The Avalanches and it suddenly sounds like an East Coast/Hip-Hop sound instrumental beat. It was probably one of the most boring sit-throughs I have gone through in a while. Towards the end of listening to this, I got out of touch and also lost interest and I rarely do that for an album.

ZeroTaste
71

Ok.

96

it good but ghostwriter is peak

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Track List

1The Horror
4:11
83
2Salud
0:38
65
3Smoke & Mirrors
4:26
91
4Good Times Roll Pt. 2
4:57
83
5Final Frontier
4:25
feat. Blueprint
85
6Ghostwriter
5:17
84
7Cut Out to FL
3:42
76
8F.H.H.
4:31
82
9Shot in the Dark
1:21
63
10Chicken-Bone Circuit
3:54
66
11The Proxy
2:14
72
122 More Dead
5:17
73
13Take the Picture Off
1:02
74
14Silver Fox
3:31
88
15June
6:03
feat. Copywrite
81
16Work
11:39
Contains hidden track "Here's What's Left"
78
Total Length: 1 hour, 7 minutes

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