Kingdom Come
| Jay Z
Kingdom Come
Kingdom Come is the ninth studio album by American rapper Jay-Z. It was released on November 21, 2006, by Roc-A-Fella Records and Def Jam Recordings. It was considered a "comeback album" for the rapper, as 2003's The Black Album was promoted as his final release. Kingdom Come received generally lukewarm reviews but was a commercial success, selling 680,000 copies in its first week, while earning Jay-Z a Grammy Award nomination for Best Rap Album."-Wikipedia
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Pitchfork
The early consensus on Kingdom Come is that it's one of Jay-Z's worst albums.
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Rolling Stone
He’s more imperious, kicking back like he has nothing to prove or learn, as if the game didn’t change while he was away.
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Slant Magazine
Greatly heightened expectations and equally crushing realizations.
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Focus Hiphop
It’s just considerably far from being good.
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BBC
'Kingdom Come' expresses...Evolution.
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Sputnik Music
Kingdom Come was a comeback in ways, but it was more of a surrender and admittance of the defeat of Old Jay
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NME
You’ll hear this record, and you’ll fall to your knees in supplication.
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Hiphop DX
Ultimately, it is perspective that makes this a special album.
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All Music
Weakest studio album.
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The Guardian
Boomy flow is supple and energised
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Slam
Real things about the difference between yesterday's and today’s generation
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Uncut
with such dazzling wordplay and production fireworks on display, Jay-Z could keep this up ‘til Kingdom Come.
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AV Club
It surveys a cold world where friends have become enemies, relatives linger in prison, and hurricane Katrina revealed the horrific inequalities and poisonous indifference bubbling under the surface
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Entertainment Weekly
Jay-Z’s coolly virtuosic delivery is irresistible
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Pop Sugar
Rather than being a letdown, Kingdom Come is an early indicator of what happens when hip-hop grows up
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North by Northwestern
The album reasserts that Jay-Z is still the top rapper in the world, and an unstoppable force in the music industry.
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Contact Music
This is a solid set of real shit that should appease the real hip hop fan whilst offering enough to keep the crossover crew happy too.
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LA Times
He has the smarts and experience; perhaps his next comeback will show more royal ambition
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Prefix Magazine
Kingdom Come is about possibility.
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PopMatters
Kingdom Come is a solid record, and entirely worth the cost just to hear Jay-Z spit a new song
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