cupcakKe - Eden
Critic Score
Based on 6 reviews
2018 Ratings: #393 / 890
User Score
Based on 261 ratings
2018 Rank: #543
Liked by 9 people
November 9, 2018 / Release Date
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CRITIC REVIEWS

80
Tiny Mix Tapes

Eden suggests a sense of preeminence; just as Eve was the original woman, cupcakKe herself stands at the front of the pack in the rap game, a self-actualized artist with her own valid claim to originality and primacy.

80
Highsnobiety

On paper, this scattershot approach might lack cohesion, but by threading each of her signature moans and flexes throughout, she ensures that Eden undoubtedly remains a cupcakKe production through and through.

79
Pitchfork

That ability to blend the real and the absurd, the cartoon and the corporeal, distinguishes CupcakKe from any other rapper. There’s a pulsing power in the center of her songs. It’s the sound of a woman in charge.

76
HipHopDX

Eden is irreverent and far from the crossover moment most other artists would be craving by their fourth album. But clearly, CupcakKe doesn’t care. She’s finding success on her own terms and inviting her audience along for the ride.

70
Rolling Stone

Eden certainly doesn’t shy away from her unique, occasionally weird filth – one evocative sex rap has the chorus “Finger me like a typo” – but, like January’s Ephorize, she does much more.

65
The 405

Even though it’s one of her weaker releases to date, Eden might be the most important album CupcakKe has made thus far ... At its best, her confidence and creativity are as fresh as ever. At its worst, it’s still worth deconstructing and discussing.

rykketid
80

"Bitch, I got so many bars / That Azealia Banks call me when she needs soap (No shade)" lmao this line has me dying

Audiohype
80

Cupcakke shows more and more promise with each release. With Eden, her biggest shortcoming of having amateurish sounding production is mostly a non issue here. The beats may not be reinventing the wheel, but they are far more layered and creative than on previous efforts, whether that's on the energised PC styled beats of "Quiz", the interlocking sections of "Typo", or the dark, Yeezus-esque "A.U.T.I.S.M".

Stylistically, the album feels very cohesive, not having ... read more

Vespertwink
70

In the book of Hoefelatios it says that once the Apocalypse shall come, so will goddess Cupcakke, and not so sooner her huge gaping pvssy shall devour the whole world known. And soon we shall meet in paradise under her uterus, while the unworthy will be qveefed out of existance by her might BBPunani

Honestly, pretty much her usual standard at the time : hard bars up usually generic dance trap beats. Outside of the unmoanly triniclit A. U. T. I. S. M(thanks Cupcakke for making a music about me ... read more

kal3nk
68

Cupcakke is genuinely one of the most entertaining rappers of the 2010's, such a personality, it's insane.

rfflstrz
75

CUPCAKKE RELEASE ANOTHER ALBUM PLEASE

Sammy02103
NR

CupcakKe should write a book and call it The Thighble.

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Track List

1PetSmart
3:37
84
2Cereal and Water
2:59
80
3Quiz
2:18
88
4Garfield
3:38
75
5Dangled
2:59
76
6Starbucks
2:36
75
7Typo
2:30
68
8Prenup
3:25
73
9Blackjack
3:13
71
10Fabric
2:22
76
11Don't Post Me
2:15
63
12A.U.T.I.S.M
1:59
80
Total Length: 33 minutes

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Added on: October 26, 2018