Reception
| Professional ratings | |
|---|---|
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Pitchfork Media | (7.7/10) |
| Allmusic | |
| The Daily Vault | (A) |
| Entertainment Weekly | (A) |
| sputnikmusic | |
| Robert Christgau | A− |
| The Source | |
| Rhapsody | (Favourable) |
| Rolling Stone | |
It ranked fourth on Chris Rock's list of the Top 25 Hip-Hop Albums of all time, and the comedian called it "the first great rap album ever".
In 1998, the album appeared in The Source's 100 Best Rap Albums.
Q magazine (12/99, p. 162) - 5 stars out of 5 - "...the apex of pre-Public Enemy, beatbox-based hip hop, a monument of massive, crisp beats plus the genre-bending 'Walk This Way'."
Vibe (12/99, p. 162) - Included in Vibe's 100 Essential Albums of the 20th Century.
Uncut (11/03, p. 130) - 4 stars out of 5 - " that forced the music biz to take rap seriously."
Rolling Stone (12/11/03, p. 126) - "he pioneering trio took hip-hop into the upper reaches of the pop charts, introducing mainstream to a new urban thunder: rap rock." (It is the earliest hip-hop album to get a 5-star review from Rolling Stone).
AllMusic - 5 stars out of 5 - "...the music was fully realized and thoroughly invigorating, rocking harder and better than any of its rock or rap peers in 1986..."
In 2003, the album was ranked number 120 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
In 2006, the album was chosen by TIME as one of the 100 greatest albums. Time named it No. 41 of the 100 best albums of the past fifty years and stated that the album was "rap's first masterpiece".
In 2012, Slant Magazine listed the album at No. 65 on its list of "Best Albums of the 1980's".
In 1987, Soul Train Music Award for Best Rap - Single for "Walk This Way" (jointly awarded to both Run-D.M.C. and Aerosmith)
Peter Piper was sampled by Justin Timberlake and Jimmy Fallon on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.
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