The last thing you can expect is that DJ Khaled not only improves on his ninth studio album, but releases what is actually his best record. The production is a generic, poor and bland selection of forgettable trap rhythms, however, the rappers manage to balance the effort worthily. Among others, there are Jay-Z, Future, Nas, Kendrick Lamar, J. Cole, YG, Jadakiss, Busta Rhymes and Lil Wayne. There are only ten good minutes in the hour of this tape and they're those between the best track on the album, "Nas Album Done", on a Fugees sample, and the J. Cole spot. This is enough to make it the closest thing to a decent Khaled LP, so much so that even critics can't ignore it anymore: with Epic, he's at the top of Billboard 200 and urban records in the UK for the first time, earning his first album gold certified in a few months and his second platinum a few years later. Critics welcomed it positively, a sign that everyone knew that there wouldn't be another Khaled album done so well. 5.5/10.
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