Suite 420 is the sixth solo studio album by American rapper Devin the Dude. It was released on April 20, 2010[1] via E1 Music. Production was handled by Luster Baker, Big Baby, Mirawge, Rob Quest, C-Ray Sullivan, Midas, Mike Dean, Q-Stone, Reggie Coby, and Devin himself. It features guest appearances from the Coughee Brothaz, Alpha-Bet-D, Ced-B, Korey-B and Scool-Boy. The album peaked at number 88 on the Billboard 200, number 19 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, number 9 on the Top Rap Albums and number 12 on the Independent Albums in the United States.
Suite 420 | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | April 20, 2010 | |||
Genre | Hip hop | |||
Length | 55:31 | |||
Label | E1 Music | |||
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Devin the Dude chronology | ||||
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Aggregate scores | |
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Source | Rating |
Metacritic | 57/100[2] |
Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [3] |
HipHopDX | 4.5/5[4] |
Now | [5] |
Pitchfork | 5.3/10[6] |
RapReviews | 8/10[7] |
Robert Christgau | [8] |
The A.V. Club | C[9] |
Suite #420 was met with mixed or average reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 57, based on seven reviews.[2]
AllMusic's David Jeffries wrote: "Devin's redundancy is the reason fans keep coming back. They won't be disappointed by Suite #420, which features the usual set of chilled-out weed anthems, sex jokes, and old-school R&B beats, along with those great oddball numbers the Dude uses to break each album up".[3] In his final edition of Consumer Guide column for MSN Music, veteran critic Robert Christgau stated: "the weed rhymes he takes himself, the sex rhymes he farms out, which in the Dirty South is a sign of truly delicate sensibility", honourably mentioning tracks "All You Need", "Ultimate High" and "Twitta".[8]
Jason Richards of Now found "Devin's single-mindedness makes for a highly unified style, and the album's relaxed, hazy production is the aural equivalent of comfort food. But the repetition is kinda tedious for an hour of straight listening".[5] Tom Breihan of Pitchfork wrote: "it's good to hear him still recording, even if he's deeply entrenched himself in his own wheelhouse and barely has a single surprising moment in the album's whole hour. But if the album never existed, nobody's life would be much poorer for it-- possibly even Devin's".[6] The A.V. Club head writer Nathan Rabin resumed: "nobody expects maturity from Devin, even though he jarringly mentions that he has a 17-year-old son, but he usually makes eternal adolescence sound a lot more fun than this".[9]
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Cultural Coughee" | Devin Copeland | Devin the Dude | 1:39 |
2. | "We Get High" (performed by Odd Squad) |
| Q-Stone | 3:45 |
3. | "Still Comin'" |
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| 3:20 |
4. | "Pick My Brain" | Copeland | Devin the Dude | 4:37 |
5. | "That Ain't Cool" | Copeland | Devin the Dude | 4:10 |
6. | "I Gotta Ho" (featuring Jugg Mugg, Smit-D and Tony Mack) |
| Rob Quest | 4:39 |
7. | "What I Be On" |
| Reggie Coby | 4:26 |
8. | "Ultimate High" (featuring Smit-D) |
| Luster Baker | 4:55 |
9. | "I Can't Handle It" | Mike Dean | 4:04 | |
10. | "Where Ya At?" |
| C-Ray Sullivan | 3:36 |
11. | "It's on You" (featuring Ced-B, Korey-B and Tony Mack) |
| Luster Baker | 4:39 |
12. | "People Talk" (featuring 14K) |
| Midas | 3:53 |
13. | "All You Need" (featuring Alpha-Bet-D and Scool-Boy) |
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| 3:56 |
14. | "Twitta'" | Copeland | Devin the Dude | 0:35 |
15. | "Funky Lil Freestyle" |
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| 3:17 |
Total length: | 55:31 |
Chart (2010) | Peak position |
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US Billboard 200[10] | 88 |
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)[11] | 19 |
US Top Rap Albums (Billboard)[12] | 9 |
US Independent Albums (Billboard)[13] | 12 |