★★★★★
It's easy to pinpoint what Tyga's good at, after a pair of summers propped by "Rack City", "Deuces", "Bitches Ain't Shit" and "Bitch Betta Have My Money". Tyga is good at talking mean, mad game to women of indistinguishable design other than their designer apparel. In the case of the latter two songs listed above, he may have leaned heavily on early-90s west coast classics to do so (the guessing game's not hard, given the titles), so throw in "Faded" and that remix of "The Motto", but he was...
- www.popmatters.com
2013-04-20
★★★★★
"Weak bitch probably get seasick On the yacht eat shrimp, see my name on a blimp It read T-Raw's a pimp Nigga I ain't dancin but my hand on my hip Full clip, movie shit, Bruce Wayne, Alfred Niggaz want a verse, can't even get an ad-lib"There are more than a few people asking. Tyga has been floating around the hip-hop scene since at least 2008, but he blew up in a major way with 2012's "Careless World" album, particularly the crossover success of his "Rack City" single...
- rapreviews.com
2013-04-23
★★★★★
California rapper Tyga's first major-label release, Careless World, was a really good pop-rap album. Big, beautiful production and unforgettable hooks masked frequently amateurish lyrics. If Tyga could build on the self-awareness hinted at in standout track Do It All, we might have ourselves a legitimate player. But on Hotel California, he's emotionally regressed...
- nowtoronto.com
2013-04-15
★★★★★
3
Worst New Music
Release Date: April 9, 2013Label: Young Money/Cash Money/Republic
Living it up: Tyga / Mike Windle/Getty If you go to Safeway, a supermarket chain based in California, you can buy an off-brand soda called "Dr. Skipper." It's probably the third-best Dr. Pepper rip-off, after Mr. Pibb and Dr. Shasta. Tyga's Hotel California is the rap equivalent of buying a 12-pack of Dr...
- www.spin.com
2013-04-15
★★★★★
3
Worst New Music
Release Date: April 9, 2013Label: Young Money/Cash Money/Republic
Living it up: Tyga / Mike Windle/Getty If you go to Safeway, a supermarket chain based in California, you can buy an off-brand soda called "Dr. Skipper." It's probably the third-best Dr. Pepper rip-off, after Mr. Pibb and Dr. Shasta. Tyga's Hotel California is the rap equivalent of buying a 12-pack of Dr...
- www.spin.com
2013-04-23
★★★★★
The sexual callousness on "Hotel California" wears off quickly, and listeners are left with a release better fit for a Ramada Inn than a Four Seasons. Though it hasn't defined Tyga's musical career (yet), the 23-year-old Los Angeles rapper has become synonymous with his salacious 2011 single "Rack City...
- www.hiphopdx.com
2013-04-30
★★★★★
Album Review: Tyga, Hotel California
Apr 10th, '13 • Music • by nmb • 15 Comments
On last year's Careless World: Rise of the Last King, Tyga went to great lengths to prove he was deeper than "Rack City". And he actually fared pretty well in doing so...
- www.xxlmag.com
2013-04-15
★★★★★
California rapper Tyga's first major-label release, Careless World, was a really good pop-rap album. Big, beautiful production and unforgettable hooks masked frequently amateurish lyrics. If Tyga could build on the self-awareness hinted at in standout track Do It All, we might have ourselves a legitimate player.
But on Hotel California, he's emotionally regressed...
- www.nowtoronto.com
2013-04-15
★★★★★
Fourteen months after the release of his surprisingly tolerable last album, , Tyga follows up with . The turnaround might have been even quicker if failed attempts to clear a handful of 2Pac samples used for a hodgepodge verse on "Hit 'Em Up" (named after a Pac diss track, but a Tyga original, sort of) didn't slow things down. It's a shame the verse didn't make it through, as it would have been a perfect fit on this ridiculous big-budget train wreck...
- exclaim.ca
2013-06-25
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