Zingalamaduni

Critic Score
Based on 4 reviews
1994 Ratings: #153 / 567
User Score
Based on 55 ratings
1994 Ratings: #523
June 14, 1994 / Release Date
LP / Format
Chrysalis / Label
Isaac HayesWriter
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Critic Reviews

100
Entertainment Weekly

Zingalamaduni is as appealing — and artistically deep — as any pop album you’re likely to hear.

80
NME
80
Rolling Stone

Zingalamaduni proves that Speech still has a gift for the swinging rhythms and decent expressions that get past the differences that divide the pop audience.

60
AllMusic
Overall, it failed to captivate Arrested Development's audience the way its predecessor had.
Docky
40

Trainwreckord Albums
Album Number 14

Well it can't be worse than Summer in Paradise right? Right? Well it isn't...but it's the worst type of album to review, flawed enough to give you something to say but way too mediocre to make you care enough to say it, even the band sounds uninterested in the songs.

One of the issues here is that the songs feel way too similar to each other and an even biggest issue is that every single song on this boring ass album is dull, mediocre and way too mid ... read more

ST4T1C
50

TRAINWRECKORDS EP. 14

Arrested Development - Zingalamaduni

(Skipped “Summer In Paradise” by The Beach Boys cause I already heard it)

With the exception of some of the first couple tracks and the admittedly banger that “Ease My Mind” is, this album is just a snooze fest. These guys basically revolutionized conscious hip hop and brought it to the mainstream (even more so than groups like De La Soul and ATCQ some may argue) with their debut album before this, and then ... read more

Sammy_P
65

The troubled follow-up. A lot of filler which pads the album out.

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