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Mail On Sunday
by Flo Rida
The debut album for the rapper includes such guests as Lil Wayne, T-Pain, Timbaland, and will.i.am.
| LABEL: |
Atlantic/Wea |
| RELEASE DATE: |
18 March 2008 |
| DISCS: |
1 disc |
| GENRE(S): |
Rap |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
83
Entertainment Weekly
His guests on Sunday bring ferocious beats (like will.i.am on ''In the Ayer'') and infectious hooks (Sean Kingston on ''Roll'').

70
RapReviews.com
He's a little bit Twista, a little bit Trick Daddy, and a whole lot Nelly. None of those things are negative, but the fact he can't distinguish himself from any of them isn't a positive.

70
Billboard
His hooks can be rock-solid ('Ack Like You Know') and his interest in gleaming synthesizerism (opener 'American Superstar' comes into 'Tubular Bells' territory, really) helps set him off from the legions of rappers clawing over each other to break out of the South.

60
The Guardian
Flo Rida himself is able and charismatic, but doesn't sustain a compelling persona on every cut, which instead stand or fall (mostly the former) on their production.

60
Blender
He has nimble delivery and a pleasing Nelly-esque hiccup to his voice. [May 2008, p.78]
50
Village Voice
The result is so robotic in its attempt to jolt every single pleasure center every single second that any twist of human joy, lust, awareness, or reflection is assimilated into its brittle, crunky Borg cube.

50
Los Angeles Times
Other than the album's highlight, the resonant break-up song "Still Missin'," Mail on Sunday rarely delivers.

50
All Music Guide
Here, he doesn't offer much more than a couple worthy singles and a handful of decent album cuts, and those highlights, such as the Timbaland-produced (and hogged) "Elevator," tend to be memorable more for the beats and the hooks than the rhymes.

50
Boston Globe
For every witty rhyme, there is enough cringe-worthy couplets.

40
Rolling Stone
For much of his debut album, Flo Rida seems like he's trying to match the broad appeal of "Low," but he has only limited success.

40
NOW Magazine
His subjects are the standard sex/money/hustler/romance/gangster fantasies, and all the new-millennium fast life references you expect.

20
Slant Magazine
He joylessly repeats all the tired tropes of Southern party rap (brand-name fetishizing, drug-trade mythologizing, stripper-bitch glorifying), and the album's best track has already been let out of the bag.


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