Power In Numbers

This is extraordinary. People go into a studio to record this stuff. Then other people pay money to buy or stream it. Then someone decides it's one of the 1,001 albums one should hear before one dies. Nope, beats me.

As Pearl Jam sang on Vitalogy, this is not for you!

Incredibly boring. With albums by People Under the Stairs, Edan, The Streets, and The Roots, 2002 was filled with innovative beats. Power in Numbers pales in comparison.

No. 1/5

Not for me

no me gusta

The T-Rex is not from the Jurassic... Track 6 "A Day At The Races" just dropped this to a 2 star ⭐⭐ just for that wtf. Ok... Its giving a 1 ⭐ that track 14 "One Of Them" has completely ruined this album for me way to many slurs Never recovered 😔

not my vibe

Rap is bad. Slow rap is just as bad

Boring and forgettable west coast hip hop. Really don't see why this was on the 1001 albums list 2/10 Favourite: None Least Favourite: None

Damn boring

Not a fan

Alternative title: Hip Hop by the Numbers. 1/5

what in the world… another hard listen. 💔 i normally do not like hip hop, but this one especially was just not my cup of tea. i could not even listen to the whole thing—i got to about five songs before i gave up. perhaps it is just not my mood lately, like i just do not want to listen to something like this, and i could not force myself to fully listen. i can understand how people might like it to some extent, but i just was not feeling it. not a bad album or artist—everybody just has a different taste, and this one was not mine. ❤️

This is my second hip hop album in the same day. I probably haven't listened to as many hip hop songs as I listened to one after another today in my entire life, so now I feel like I've experienced a brain trauma. Or at least like millions of my brain cells died. But at the end I started to move my head a little bit, so I guess there's progress.

Not my kind of music, painful...

woof

Jurassic Park 5. No movies. I thought there were no movies here. I can’t watch the dinosaurs. It’s too early. I specially the fifth installment. Do the dinosaurs open a prehistoric human park? That might be an interesting take. Well if it’s not a movie, I genuinely have no idea what this is. I am so incredibly tired today. I believe that in an attempt by the powers that be to monetize every aspect of my life, I have finally succumbed to whatever brain damage has been inadvertently caused by the cheap/addictive ingredients in everything. At least I’ll fade into the static abyss listening to another of “one of the most essential albums to ever be reased.” It’s not a reggae album is it? Oh no. This might just be an intro. Let us pray. Oh it’s a rap album. An entire triceratops worth of relief has washed over me. I mean the radio announcer voice guy needs to hang up the microphone forever, but this song is fine. There he is again. That voice needs to go. It’s not good. Based on these lyrics, I’m worried I’m not mistaken in assuming this crew is indeed one of the “corny-ass” variety. Chorus is bottom 5 of all time. A few of the rappers have good deliveries, but the lyrics are terrible so far. Beat is more what I’m interested in, but we’re in the lyrical miracle zone big time. I don’t know if it’s the brain damage, but this puppy sounds like rap written for a rapper that has a small part in a teen movie. “A Day at the Races” was in something. I don’t know what though. Master Blasters mentioned. Kevin Nash seething. I’m just not getting into this at all. This sounds slightly cooler, but everything feels so generic. Best song so far though. What’s Golden is not a question posed by these young fellas, but rather a statement. The verbal Herman Munster. Alright. I’m done. THIS SUNDAY, A RAP ALBUM SO BAD, COMMON HAS ASKED FOR A FEATURE 14 SEPARATE TIMES. We’ll settle for Nelly Furtado following this dope giving us a “lesson in friendship.” The movie trailer voice is really the issue. Another slog through the most mid rap ever released. Dad’s riffing off of a sugar hill gang beat. Well after another forgettable track/interlude, we get an eerie beat on “One of Them.” Immediately ruined by testosterone supplement commercial man. The other rappers help a little bit, but I think they’re making fun of intimidating rap. Oh my god they’re making fun of guys saying “fuck the police.” Jeeeeeez. Hey. We’re just 5 dads and uncles trying to get you out to a party. The party that’s the place to be, there won’t be guns, but we will be rapping the whole time. Anyway, we are also going to sing THIS song about it and hire a nameless feature to repeatedly whisper “Hey” in the most despicable fashion as we go to the party. So how many tickets can I put you down for. Hey? Hey. I AM somebody ok? This is like that James Brown/Afrika Bambaataa song. PEACE, LOVE, UNITY, AND HAVING FUN. Well we got an elephant sample. No rapping. Best song by a country mile. It’s still a huge sampling mess but hey, no “my mind is minefield where I play Minecraft in a raft, call me shaft. I write lyrics in space, can’t you see my face, I’m winning the race, brace, yourselves for a rockin’ MC a man who’s in the place to be, with me a ha ha ha.” That’s this whole thing. This thing isn’t offensive. To anybody. It does all it can to offend absolutely nobody. I find that in itself to be a grievous offence. I can’t even really put my finger on exactly why it’s so bad. Probably the brain damage. The quotables made me cringe rather than get excited. I mean I do love a good cringe here and there, but this hurts. These lyrics man. Nothing clever. If this came out in 1986, I’d be marvelling at the beat and it would probably be a lot of fun, but two thousand bloody two??? We are almost a decade removed Ready to Die at this point. You guys talk about how rap is bad when they talk about guns and drugs, but those rhymes are a million times better than whatever this is. At least drug rap has clever wordplay and is a reflection of some kind of heavy experience. “Power in Numbers” is an album that is ABOUT writing words that rhyme in a sleep inducing fashion. The power in numbers, hey? Well get ready for a Jurassic 1 (star). 1 HIGHLIGHTS: Acetate Prophets, “One of Them” had a good beat! I wish it was one of the songs they were attempting to criticize.

This is a truly dreadful and boring album.

Certainly not my thing.

What's Golden

1. thiz - 1 2. freedom - 1.5 3. kneuu - 1 4. break - 1 5. react - 0 6. day - 1.5 7. name - 1.5 8. golden - 1 9. line - 1.5 10. zchool - 1.5 11. fidelity - 1 12. zum - 1 13. ddt - 0 14. them - 0 15. hey - 1 16. zomebody - 1 17. prophetz - 0

Too corny

Absolute shit...again

no me gusta el rap

Just no...

Boring. I favor music over lyrics, and there's no music to speak of.

Yuck

rubbish

I can understand why there are so many people raving about this album, or about the group. However, I can't share the sentiment... Not a fan. 1*

Great another piece of hip-hop crap. Fantastic another album of songs that all sound exactly the same. Can't tell you much I've been looking forward to that. And what's with the garbage filler that makes it sound like you are listening to an awfull radio-station. What's the point of that besides being extremely annoying. Oh and finally why does Spotify tell me that this is the "Explicit Version" WTF is "Explicit" about the mind-numbingly bland and boring lyrics. Managed to get about halfway through this before I couldn't take it anymore.

No thanks

Je ne connaissais pas ce groupe. J'aurai préféré ne jamais le connaitre ... arrêt au troisième morceau.

If you enjoy rap, it ok

Not my thing

Well this album has the dubious distinction of being the first time I have given a 1/5 three times in a row. Well deserved in my view! Only to be surpassed if another 1/5 turns up tomorrow. As I seem to keep on saying this type of music not meant for likes of me so I cannot give a meaningful review. Getting worried now that with all these 1 out of 5’s turning up my streaming and Roon algorithm’s will start thinking I actually like this stuff. Or maybe this is just an April fool and this album will get replaced by a 5/5 classic after 12 noon? (Addit - no such luck!) 1/5 1/4/24

Not to my taste. Though I liked the classical flute

Nah

This did nothing for me.

Not my jam in any way

Not for me

Boring and repetitive.

Jazz or rap? Not sure. Like the jazz, not the rap.

I don’t particularly care for rap.

Never heard of this group. Not a fan.

Not for me

1/5 this album came out 20 years too late.

Nah, not my style

I listened to the entire album with an open mind……I still hate rap and hip hop. Not my thing. Too much the same. Fast talking’s the game, but it’s lame, inane, insane, trying to make a name, get fame, but I want none of it, no fun in it, put a gun to it and blow that shit away.

I do not enjoy most rap "music" as there is very limited (if any) musical instrument talent. It's all about the lyrics which tend to be vulgar, degrading to women, very juvenile, and immature.

Ei hyvä

Finally.. the first rap album I've gotten on this thing! and its one that I couldn't really get into.. I definitely appreciate this style of hip hop, a lot of old heads would say its the best and I recognize it for what it is but I just could never really get into the kinda boom-bap sounds. Its just not really my style but I know others would appreciate this and I know its a great album. Overall: 1.6/5

Not really my kind of music

Not good.

Þetta er ekki eitthvað sem mér finnst skemmtilegt. Algjörlega gleymanlegt og snerti mig ekkert.

Not for me.

Interesting music. However, a bit hard to listen to. Not something I would listen to again.

Testou minha paciência coma sequencia de discos de hip hop, e para piorar, este foi o mais ruim.

Ok

Not keen on rap. Quite jazzy though.

Mince

I thought this was pretty good. Originally a four… until about twenty minutes in, where it became a three… so why the 1? ‘One of Them’ is pure homophobia. It’s not satire, it’s complete shit. I shut this absolute nonsense up as soon as I realised.

En lyssningsbar låt och det måste då betyda 1 i betyg.

Meh

Absoluut mijn ding niet

Det här sög, rappandet varierar från dåligt till helt okej, beats varierar från dåligt till helt okej. Alla teman har gjorts på intressantare sätt tidigare och ljudet som helhet låter som att de apar efter rappare som gjorde sin musik 10 år tidigare. Refrängerna låter tvingade och har väldigt lite att säga. Rapparna själva låter väldigt sterila, tråkiga, stela. De älskar att skryta med hur bra flow de har och hur bra de är med pennan, vilket gjorts tusenfalt bättre tusen gånger före detta album. Det är också ett tema som blir tråkigt väldigt snabbt. På 2000-talet fanns en hel massa alternativa hiphop-album som är mer nyskapande och underhållande, Power in Numbers är inget man måste höra före man dör.

8 or a 9. Could definitely be a 10 depending on my mood