...and then you shoot your cousin

2014, May 20

Apple Spotify Conscious Hip Hop East Coast Hip Hop 95 Def Jam Recordings Pitchfork 7.2/10 A.V. Club D+ The Needle Drop 4/10 The Line of Best Fit 7/10 Paste 8.0/10 Rolling Stone 3.5/5 All Music 3.5/5 Exclaim! 8/10 The Observer 4/5 Slant 4/5 Pop Matters 5/10 The Guardian 4/5 Spectrum Culture 80% Sputnikmusic 3.3/5 The Irish Times 3/5

Pitchfork 7.2/10 …And Then You Shoot Your Cousin finds the Roots in some version of the comfy purgatory they've been residing since How I Got Over. That isn't to say there isn't plenty to think about on Cousin, but most of that thought comes from mood, arrangement, and implication.

A.V. Club D+ In 2014, The Roots are at once closer to and further removed from the pop culture mainstream than they’ve ever been. While they’re on network television five nights a week, wringing chuckles as the game house band for Jimmy Fallon’s Gen X-hugging update of The Tonight Show, they’ve all but given up on reaching that…

Rolling Stone 3.5/5 Check out our album review of Artist's . . .And Then You Shoot Your Cousin on Rolling Stone.com.

The Observer 4/5 A mosaic of hard-knock tales from urban America impresses <strong>Killian Fox</strong>

Slant 4/5 ...And Then You Shoot Your Cousin is an album whose sole focus is reportage, with no individual aspirational narrative to disguise the ugliness.

The Guardian 4/5 This inspired concept album populated by various tortured souls is an emotive, socially minded triumph, writes <strong>Tshepo Mokoena</strong>