Critical Reception
| Professional ratings | |
|---|---|
| Aggregate scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | (66/100) |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | |
| The A.V. Club | (favorable) |
| Entertainment Weekly | B− |
| New York Times | (unfavorable) |
| Pitchfork Media | (7.8/10) |
| PopMatters | (9/10) |
| Rolling Stone | |
| The Source | |
| Vibe | |
| Village Voice | (favorable) |
The album received positive reviews and was given a score of 66 out of 100 by Metacritic, with 5 star ratings from The Source (in which she became the first female rapper to ever receive the 5 mics rating), Vibe Magazine, and The Village Voice and less than favorable reviews from The New York Times and Allmusic. Blender Magazine gave the album four stars calling it her 'strongest work since her pheromone-thick 1996 debut'. While the album did receive several 5 star ratings, Pitchfork Media journalist Jess Harvell, who gave the album a positive 7.8 rating stated "The Naked Truth may be better than 80% of the other rap albums to be released in 2005, but that doesn't make it another Ready to Die."
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