Craig Jenkins’s album reviews that count toward B-Side Breakdowns: 13 reviews, going back to 2013, each next to the album’s Breakdown.
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Pitchfork 2013–2015 · 13 reviews
What they review
- Hip-Hop & Rap 85%
- Pop 8%
- R&B & Soul 8%
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By the numbers
3A-Sides reviewed, the albums the critics rate highest
2albums given a perfect score
3years of their reviews we track, 2013 to 2015
How their scores spread
- 0–491
- 50s2
- 60s1
- 70s3
- 80s3
- 90+3
More numbers (how close they land to the other critics, release-week calls) appear once we track 15 of their reviews.
Their favorites
Stevie WonderInnervisions 100 Pitchfork
Public EnemyIt Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back 100 Pitchfork
Kendrick LamarTo Pimp a Butterfly 93 Pitchfork
DrakeIf You’re Reading This It’s Too Late 83 Pitchfork
Earl SweatshirtDoris 83 Pitchfork
A-Sides they reviewed
3 albums that earned an A-Side, the critics’ top tier; they scored 3 of them 75 or higher.
Every review
| Outlet | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 MigosYung Rich Nation“The rhyme skills and lurid way with imagery that first brought the Atlanta rap trio Migos to national attention remain on display throughout Yung Rich Nation, their major-label debut. It…” | Pitchfork via Wikipedia | 70 7.0/10 | 68 | 2015 |
| Kendrick LamarTo Pimp a Butterfly“The dense and complex follow-up to Good Kid, M.A.A.D City is wry, theatrical, chaotic, ironic, and mournful, often all at once.” | Pitchfork via Wikipedia | 93 9.3/10 | 92 | 2015 |
| DrakeIf You’re Reading This It’s Too Late“The surprise release of If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late, a retail mixtape arriving on the six-year anniversary of Drake's star-making So Far Gone, has inspired much speculation: Is…” | Pitchfork via Wikipedia | 83 8.3/10 | 75 | 2015 |
 Wu-Tang ClanA Better Tomorrow | Pitchfork via Wikipedia | 59 5.9/10 | 65 | 2014 |
 Azealia BanksBroke with Expensive Taste“Three years after "212", her confrontationally profane lead single, Azealia Banks has finally released her proper debut. It's all over the place, with tracks new and old and production that…” | Pitchfork via Wikipedia | 80 8.0/10 | 69 | 2014 |
 Schoolboy QOxymoron“L.A. rapper Schoolboy Q specializes in hairpin turns from cautionary street tales and remorseful reflection into wanton bacchanal. His Interscope debut Oxymoron is essentially a volleyball match between his warring…” | Pitchfork via Wikipedia | 78 7.8/10 | 71 | 2014 |
| Earl SweatshirtDoris | Pitchfork via Wikipedia | 83 8.3/10 | 81 | 2013 |
 Tyler, the CreatorWolf“Two years after Goblin, the Odd Future ringleader returns with an album heavy on gorgeous beats and a lyrical focus that takes aim at the band's critics and the trappings…” | Pitchfork via Wikipedia | 78 7.8/10 | 68 | 2013 |
 J. Cole2014 Forest Hills Drive | Pitchfork via Wikipedia | 69 6.9/10 | 67 | |
 Donald GloverBecause the Internet | Pitchfork via Wikipedia | 58 5.8/10 | 61 | |
| Stevie WonderInnervisions | Pitchfork via Wikipedia | 100 10/10 | 99 | |
| Public EnemyIt Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back | Pitchfork via Wikipedia | 100 10/10 | 100 | |
 EminemThe Marshall Mathers LP 2 | Pitchfork via Wikipedia | 47 4.7/10 | 77 |
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