5.0

Critic Score
Based on 6 reviews
2010 Ratings: #914 / 948
User Score
Based on 61 ratings
2010 Ratings: #627
November 12, 2010 / Release Date
LP / Format
1500 or Nothin', Bangladesh, C Gutta, Dr. Luke, Earl & E, +6 more...Producer
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Critic Reviews

75
Entertainment Weekly
He has recovered his pop instincts, slinging singsong rhymes over energetic beats courtesy of 2010’s biggest producers (including Dr. Luke and Jim Jonsin). His lyrics are vacuous as ever, but those hooks sure are sticky.
72
Billboard
The rapper proves he still knows what it takes to make a solid, well-rounded album.
50
Rolling Stone

He essays a few fashionably global-sounding electro-club tracks, including an Auto-Tuned one with T-Pain and Akon, and at least four numbers where he swipes guys' girlfriends. Keri Hilson and Kelly Rowland help him stretch out; Plies, Yo Gotti and T.I. add muscle.

40
AllMusic

The rallying choruses are not effective, and he's short on ideas; threatening to steal attached women is a default topic. 5.0 is, by a considerable margin, Nelly's least essential release to date.

40
Slant Magazine

5.0 is never overtly awful, but it definitely sinks into the zone of mediocrity occupied by so many mainstream rap albums, where they sit like dishes moldering beneath dirty water.

30
HipHopDX

Much like Brass Knuckles before it, 5.0 might just be another forgettable release from the St. Lunatic.

MinixMusic
35

There's like one good song on this lol

cjbitw
25

not good

Dmercy20
32

I’m going to pretend that I never listened to this mess.

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