- hip hop
- 61 min
- 17 tracks
- Blacksmith
Revolutions per Minute is the second studio album by American hip hop duo Reflection Eternal, released May 18, 2010, on Blacksmith Records and Rawkus Records. Composed of rapper Talib Kweli and DJ/hip hop producer Hi-Tek, it is the duo's follow-up to their collaborative debut Train of Thought (2000).
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Character
Spare, classical in form, grave and character-led.
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- cooloverwhelming
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- AllMusic4/5 ★
- Alternative Press4/5 ★
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- Boston Phoenix3/4 ★
- Pitchfork7.5/10
- PopMatters8/10
- RapReviews9/10
- Slant Magazine4/5 ★
- Spin3.5/5 ★
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Tracks
- 1RPM’s1:06
- 2City Playgrounds4:43
- 3Back Again3:26
- 4Strangers (Paranoid)2:51
- 5In This World3:30
- 6Got Work4:16
- 7Midnight Hour4:39
- 8Lifting Off5:22
- 9In the Red3:00
- 10Black Gold (intro)0:17
- 11Ballad of the Black Gold5:33
- 12Just Begun3:36
- 13Long Hot Summer2:22
- 14Get Loose5:33
- 15So Good3:32
- 16Ends3:22
- 17My Life (outro)3:27
17 tracks, 61 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Reflection Eternal
- Label
- Blacksmith
- Released
- May 17, 2010
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- AU
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