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Track Listings
| 1. Pray For Us |
| 2. Pirates |
| 3. 3 Kings ft. Dr. Dre & Jay - Z |
| 4. Ashamed |
| 5. Maybach Music IV ft. Ne - Yo |
| 6. Sixteen ft. Andre 3000 |
| 7. Amsterdam |
| 8. Hold Me Back |
| 9. 911 |
| 10. So Sophisticated ft. Meek Mill |
| 11. Presidential ft. Elijah Burke |
| 12. Ice Cold ft. Omarion |
| 13. Touch N' You ft. Usher |
| 14. Diced Pineapples ft. Wale & Drake |
| 15. Ten Jesus Pieces ft. Stalley |
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God Forgives, I Don’t, his fifth album proper, represents a game-changer. A UK top 10 hit, it has engaged with a newly receptive public. Whether they’re turned on by Ross or his impressive roster of collaborators – Dr Dre, Jay-Z, Drake and Ne-Yo amongst them – matters not, as this is the Florida rapper’s bona-fide international breakthrough.
God Forgives finds its headliner on typical balls-and-braggadocio form – but the numbers concerned with the acquisition and exhibition of wealth are fairly forgettable. 911 is a tired celebration, via some shady vocational activities, of the titular motor; and near-sound-alike Hold Me Back is an aggressive but hollow rant about people Ross doesn’t like much.
Slower cuts can lack standout qualities: Touch ‘n You, with Usher, is a forgettable piece about impressing a lady with money and cars, and Drake snoozes through the soggy Diced Pineapples. But there are plenty of reasons why this set’s been well received critically – its first half contains some of the brightest mainstream hip hop of 2012.
3 Kings is a brilliant track where Ross’ rhymes are topped and tailed by turns from Dr Dre and Jay-Z – impressively, Ross holds his own beside two greats. Jay-Z is particularly imperial, references to several-zeros deals backed by the reality of the empire he’s built – an empire that Ross has done much to emulate.
Ross is no Jay-Z yet – and nor is he today’s Notorious B.I.G., who he carefully compares himself to on Pirates. But he’s rising, still, and God Forgives’ best moments – Ashamed, Ten Jesus Pieces, Amsterdam, the André 3000-starring Sixteen – are fine examples of how big-budget rap can skilfully avoid crass clichés, and even convey no little emotion. These tracks point to further success, and perhaps a UK chart-topper in album six.
--Nick Levine
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Customer Reviews
There are other good songs on the album like diced pineapples, 10 jesus pieces and amsterdam which I like also. solid album overall.
This album tries way too hard to bite another style but it fails miserably, if your a true hip hop fan, invest in something healthy for the hip hop community like Kendrick Lamars upcoming album good kid in a m.a.a.d city.
The beats aren't horrible though, merely unremarkable. This could be overcome by great lyrics or flow, but you get neither here. His words are formulaic, repetitive and boring as hell. He gets outshined by almost all the guest vocalists, especially Andre 3000 on 'Sixteen', which proves to be easily the high point of the album, and the only song that stands above the rest due to Andre's languid flow and the smooth, jazzy production.
Half the problem is that Ross isn't nearly as good or important as he thinks he is. His flow, as mentioned, is mediocre, and you can't buy top level beats, hooks and production with money stacks that exist only in his lyrics and imagination. At least the last album had the smarts to keep it to eleven tracks, too. Here, even the regular version stretches to fifteen tracks and seventy minutes. It's as bloated as his stomach.
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