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CD Review: Atmosphere - When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That S**t Gold

Wednesday April 23, 2008

Well, we know all about Atmosphere's newfound reputation for coining incredibly long album titles. What else is new? How about this: It's only April and latest effort is already in the running for Rap Album of the Year. I'll explain. Here's my take on When Life Gives You Lemons.

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April 23, 2008 at 2:10 pm
(1) Shiban says:

i’ve only heard a few songs, but imma listen to your review, this might be the album that jump starts ‘08, o ya and nas’ new song came out, graeat song, can’t wait for his albbum, and the roots almost out too! damn, imma go get this album right now.

April 23, 2008 at 5:56 pm
(2) Shannon says:

Good review. I think this will pique the interests of people who aren’t familiar with Atmosphere. Keep bringing us fresh artists to check out.

April 23, 2008 at 8:32 pm
(3) Henry says:

Thanks, Shannon.

April 23, 2008 at 8:59 pm
(4) Scott says:

I agree 100% with your review. I’ve enjoyed all of Atmosphere’s albums, but this one is up at the top of the list.

April 23, 2008 at 9:12 pm
(5) Josh says:

Yeah, im listenin’ to it right now. Whats the name of Nas’s new single btw?

April 23, 2008 at 9:24 pm
(6) Henry says:

Be a N*gger Too
http://www.zshare.net/audio/1090744563ff5406/

April 24, 2008 at 9:11 am
(7) WhiteyFordSR says:

I never heard 1 of atmospheres cd’s until now. Great music!!!!! I loved every song!!!!!

April 24, 2008 at 1:07 pm
(8) james says:

good review. album was good and interesting. i’m definitely gonna check out that new nas track as soon as i get home.

April 25, 2008 at 2:22 pm
(9) Jack says:

AMAZING album. Great review, I totally agree with you. Slug is finally sounding less angry as a lyricist, and seems for comfortable with himself; I’m really liking the change. The production from Ant is just amazing. Sometimes in the past not all of his experiments have worked, but on this album he threw so many surprises at us and pretty much all of them worked beautifully.

I know most people will probably disagree, but I think this just might be Atmosphere’s best album to date.

May 2, 2008 at 8:50 am
(10) MPG says:

I never heard about Atmosphere (but thats probably because I’m from Belgium and we barely have a hip-hop scene here, most Belgian people only know the commercial stuff) but this album is really great, I can’t stop listening to it.
Great review by the way, thanks to you I know who Atmosphere is.

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