My Name Is My Name

Pusha T - My Name Is My Name
Critic Score
Based on 24 reviews
2013 Ratings: #165 / 1115
Year End Rank: #49
User Score
2013 Rank: #299
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CRITIC REVIEWS

91
Paste

Pusha T proves his worth in the shrines of the Rap Game Hall of Fame on My Name Is My Name, with slick wordplay and surreal depictions of his drug-dealing past.

90
AllMusic

With Pusha's pen at full force and his performance a proper combination of cold and tense, the album is as if Clipse's Hell Hath No Fury were atom-smashed into something more artful and unstable. My Name Is My Name is a remarkable and vital solo debut.

83
Pretty Much Amazing

My Name Is My Name is as strong a “debut” full length as anyone could hope to produce, and reminds the world why it fell in love with this coke-rap wizard more than ten years ago.

80
The Line of Best Fit

In My Name Is My Name, Pusha T has produced one of the most diverse and constantly rewarding hip-hop records of the year; twelve tracks tied together by a man at the top of his form and who, quite soon, may yet reach the highest summits.

80
Clash
The strengths of ‘My Name Is My Name’ vastly outweigh its minor faults, and Pusha’s studio debut finds itself easily nestled into the year’s top five rap releases.
80
XXL

With MNIMN standing at a lean 12 songs, these missteps are hard to gloss over. Regardless, Pusha T accomplishes a lot here, crafting a record that is big in concept but is still rooted in the longstanding hip-hop tradition that lyricism is king.

80
Pitchfork

Pusha’s released a fair amount of music since joining Kanye’s G.O.O.D. Music army three years ago, but My Name Is My Name is really the first release that delivers on the excitement initially engendered by the pairing.

80
Consequence of Sound

While not the defining statement it could’ve been, My Name Is My Name shows different sides of Pusha T as he becomes a more multidimensional rapper.

80
NME
Pusha T is yet to find overground fame. ‘My Name Is My Name’ should change that.
80
PopMatters
The album’s guests are a nice touch, but Pusha still finds the space to shine in his own accord as well. The GemStar razor, baking soda, mason jar, dinner plate and cocaine never left the kitchen and, while it may seem that the brick isn’t as pure as it could be, the end result is just as potent as its ever been.
76
Sputnikmusic

Though the album isn’t peppered with tons of standalone quotables, it is laden from top to bottom with stellar, succinct verses, and with Kanye West at the helm of production, My Name Is My Name comes out a near-perfect product, and one of the most satisfying hip-hop releases in recent memory.

70
HipHopDX

With an accumulation of gritty street tracks, Pusha T delivers “unpolished” and “unapologetic” lyrics, but frankly, it does not live up to the hype.

70
FACT Magazine

On My Name Is My Name, Pusha doesn’t really give much away about his past, present or future, and it’s a disconcerting thought for an album posited as a vanguard for a more “real” presentation of rap.

70
SPIN

Kanye and all the production cosigns he can bring to this thing make this record too ambitious to fail; Pusha T, forever an outlier even when he had clubby crack-rap hits, has finally made a solo project that isn't totally beneath him, even if parts of it still are.

60
Slant Magazine

My Name Is My Name is a reminder that Pusha T hasn’t changed, and his stubborn reliance on maintaining his brand is probably not the wisest strategy in today’s shifting hip-hop climate.

60
The Needle Drop
Pusha T, Virginia rapper and one half of the famed hip hop duo Clipse, released some pretty potent singles before the drop of his new album here; however, the final product seems to be cut with a handful of weak tracks.
AllAboutMusic
70

I mean yeah, the album is alright, but why is Nosetalgia the highest rated track? It’s great, but idk man, Numbers On the Boards is sooooooo much better to me. One of the best beats of the last 10 years easily

AntonioF789
80

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73🟩 King Push
72🟩 Sweet Serenade
72🟩 S.N.I.T.C.H.
71🟩 Hold On
71🟩 Suicide
71🟩 Let Me Love You
71🟩 Pain
70🟩 Numbers On the Boards
70🟩 40 Acres
70🟩 No Regrets
70🟩 Who I Am
70🟩Nosetalgia

P: 70
A: +10

Nota: 80🟩

Geem
65

The coke rapper supreme is doing what he does best... Rap about cocaine. I feel like this record got a little carried away with it's open concept production and stapled together sampling, because it's a little rough. It all felt tacked together. That being said, it was still quite enjoyable, despite my nit picks. A really solid record, but nothing that special. In my opinion, of course.

75

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85

Favorite Tracks: Nosetalgia, Numbers On The Board, King Push

Least: Let Me Love You

guilhermesnd
72

couple highs (nosetalgia), but mostly lows.

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Track List

1King Push
2:52
82
2Numbers On the Boards
2:43
94
3Sweet Serenade
3:39
72
4Hold On
4:45
feat. Rick Ross
80
5Suicide
3:42
feat. Ab-Liva
71
640 Acres
4:42
feat. The-Dream
68
7No Regrets
4:48
68
8Let Me Love You
3:43
67
9Who I Am
3:41
67
10Nosetalgia
3:36
98
11Pain
4:11
feat. Future
72
12S.N.I.T.C.H.
4:03
74
Total Length: 46 minutes
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Added on: July 1, 2013