Prisoner of Conscious: Difference between revisions

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Upon its release ''Prisoner of Conscious'' was met with generally favorable reviews from [[music critic]]s. At [[Metacritic]], which assigns a [[weighted mean]] rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an [[weighted mean|average]] score of 68, based on 11 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.metacritic.com/music/prisoner-of-conscious/talib-kweli |title=Prisoner of Conscious Reviews |publisher=Metacritic |date=2013-05-06 |accessdate=2013-05-11}}</ref> David Jeffries of [[Allmusic]] gave the album three and a half stars out of five saying, "The album's title takes on a different meaning when the closing "It Only Gets Better" suggests freedom fighters like Mumia and Pussy Riot are the true Prisoners of Conscious. Still, the off-topic and amazing "Hamster Wheel" ("How she gonna make it through the night? /How she so accepting of her station in life?" offered with an Al Green-sized helping of hurt) is here, and when that's added to all the other highlights, the album is well above worthwhile, as scattershot and frustrating as it is."<ref name="AM"/> Ted Scheinman of [[Slant Magazine]] gave the album four out of five stars, saying "Amid all that enjambment, Prisoner of Conscious's message crystallizes: This isn't an undergraduate poetry class. Stop categorizing and start feeling."<ref name="sm"/> Mike Madden of [[Pitchfork Media]] gave the album a 6.1 out of 10, saying "Listening to Prisoner next to something like the new Chance the Rapper tape reveals the record’s biggest, most pervasive dilemma. Where Acid Rap is a seamless convergence of local and post-regional sounds, Prisoner takes on a bunch of things one by one without squeezing the most from any of them. Kweli’s absolutely owned his lane when he’s been committed to it but now he's jumping around from style to style with no destination in sight."<ref name="pitch"/>