Accepted Eclectic

Critic Score
Based on 5 reviews
2001 Ratings: #77 / 300
User Score
Based on 17 ratings
March 6, 2001 / Release Date
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Critic Reviews

90
AllMusic
A strikingly consistent album that's packed with imaginative, smooth-flowing rhymes, and a simple joy in creating them.
80
Rolling Stone
Aceyalone's strongest album to date.
73
Pitchfork
Sure, it's often funny, and occasionally exciting, but ultimately, the attention to detail inherent in previous works has been marked absent.
70
NME
West Coast psychedelic rapper unleashes abstract expressionist full-length.
70
SPIN

Bile rises to the surface even at Accepted's most lighthearted moments.

SZissou
70

Some of the production choices, especially towards the front of this album, are a bit puzzling to me. Acey is good here, but it's certainly worse than his previous two.

OgPietroo
63

clearly less successful than his first two albums

60

I go back and forth with this album. Sometimes I listen to it, and it sounds refreshing. Other times, it just sounds like a cartoonish, caricatured version of a top-tier lyricist. I can listen to it once or twice before I put it back on the shelf and remember why it's there.

The title song, 'Accepted Eclectic' starts out with Acey counting by 5s over a beat that sounds like it came from Tom & Jerry. The hooks are almost too simplistic. 'B-Boy Real McCoy' sees ... read more

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