Grateful

DJ Khaled - Grateful
Critic Score
Based on 12 reviews
2017 Ratings: #902 / 940
User Score
Based on 402 ratings
2017 Rank: #931
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CRITIC REVIEWS

80
XXL

The comforting thing about pressing play on Grateful is that you know exactly what you’re going to get: cloth talk, mogul talk, shout outs to Asahd and some good old-fashioned posse cuts.

76
HipHopDX

The first half of the album, Khaled showed precise execution, stacking banger after banger. Had he sliced the album down to 15 or 16 tracks, he could have secured a very special project.

75
Entertainment Weekly

With so much talent and so much content, it’s frustrating that he couldn’t deliver a higher-quality product.

73
GIGsoup

Grateful’s biggest flaw is not that it is 87 minutes. Rather, the issue is that a double album formula works better as separate albums. The fatigue would have been easier to avoid were he to either pair it down to an hour, or release the two halves separately.

60
NME

His glitziest album boasts big names and big tunes, but average filler weighs it down.

60
The Observer

Sadly, nearly every song is made worse by Khaled’s inane shout outs of “another one” or “we the best music”, making you yearn for a Khaled-free version.

52
Pitchfork
Too often, more is just more, and the slickness with which Khaled packages his product feels mass-produced for maximum impact, and calculating in a way that clashes with his fatherly quirk.
50
AllMusic

By late-2010s' Khaled standard, Grateful is typically overstuffed.

50
Pretty Much Amazing

The sheer mass of songs and personalities present on Grateful means much of it fails to stand out on its own, and tracks get lost in a whirlwind of input that’s only really tied together by Khaled.

50
The Young Folks

At the end of the day, I don’t want to say Khaled is talentless, but I wonder how much better Grateful could have been if he had stopped back, and let others produce it.

40
Exclaim!
In the new paradigm of streaming, perhaps making single-heavy albums is the right move. Unfortunately, for album enthusiasts, density simply won't cut it.
40
Clash
The majority of ‘Grateful’ is forgettable at best, but with enough hits to keep his streaming numbers high he’ll continue to make ‘another one’, and ‘another one’, and ‘another one’ until he no longer has the keys, the keys, the keys.
reaIreaIweaseI
40

Grateful.

Seeing pizzagrande's series of reviews on the eternally large lad reminded me how passionately I would defend Father of Asahd, Khaled's latest release from last year. I thought the record was extremely inoffensive and nothing to really blow steam over. The production was average, the features were average, even the Khaled appearances were average. It's one of the averagest musical experiences I've ever taken part in hearing, but nothing bad or anything. However, what was offensive ... read more

pizzagrande
90

one of the biggest upsets in album history.

Z.Younk
45

WTF is wrong with everyone? I don't really fuckw it, but it isn't THAT bad. Do you all hate Khaled because he's a Muslim or because he's fat? Either way fuck you guys, the dude's music is ok and he's always seemed like a dope dude.

themixedflip
NR

Major Bag Alert, mayjor baaaaagg alert. BAG!

GusCreter
31

Really bad!!

MysteryBFDI
95

Major Bag Alert is still stuck in my head. like why are these songs so catchy?

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Added on: June 5, 2017