★★★★★
When DJ Drama and DJ Khaled first thrust their names into the national conversation in the mid-2000s, there was never an expectation that these guys could craft good albums. What they were doing, and still find ways to do, was in many ways the most cynical take on what sells a rap album since the glory days of No Limit and Bad Boy...
- www.popmatters.com
2012-10-25
★★★★★
He calls himself "Barack O'Drama" more than once on wax, but DJ Drama's got a lot more in common with Mike Huckabee: Vaguely inoffensive, vaguely southern, affable, entrepreneurial; the kind of simple-minded dude who synchronizes everyone-gets-a-seat-at-the-table warmth with jaw-dropping blunders (denying the science behind evolution/befouling the video reunion of UGK). The political analogy continues...
- pitchfork.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
He loves the studio, which earns it, and his young-money peeps, who don't ("Still Rise," "Magic").
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-05-18
★★★★★
He calls himself "Barack O'Drama" more than once on wax, but DJ Drama's got a lot more in common with Mike Huckabee: Vaguely inoffensive, vaguely southern, affable, entrepreneurial; the kind of simple-minded dude who synchronizes everyone-gets-a-seat-at-the-table warmth with jaw-dropping blunders (denying the science behind evolution/befouling the video reunion of UGK).
The political analogy continues...
- www.pitchforkmedia.com
2009-02-26
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