At Your Inconvenience | ||||
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Studio album by Professor Green | ||||
Released | 28 October 2011 | |||
Recorded | 2010-2011 | |||
Genre | British hip hop, UK garage, R&B | |||
Length | 65:26 | |||
Label | Virgin | |||
Producer | Alex 'Cores' Hayes, 16bit, DJ Khalil, TMS, iSHi 2Stripes, Eric Hudson, Mojam | |||
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Singles from At Your Inconvenience | ||||
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Source | Rating |
Metacritic | 54/100 |
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BBC | unfavourable |
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Hot Press | favourable |
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MTV UK | favourable |
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At Your Inconvenience is the second studio album by British rapper Professor Green, released on 28 October 2011. "At Your Inconvenience" was released as a promotional single on 26 July. The first official single "Read All About It" was released on 21 September 2011. Some guests from his debut album appear on the album, including Ed Drewett, Fink and Emeli Sandé, New guests include Slaughterhouse and Bad Meets Evil member Royce da 5'9", Kobe, Luciana, Ruth Anne, Sierra Kusterbeck and Haydon. Upper Clapton Dance originally featured on Green's debut mixtape Lecture #1, As of 6 September 2014 the album has sold 280,000 copies in UK.
The album's general theme is different, in that it is more emotional, to Professor Green's previous album; he had a difficult upbringing with a hard relationship with his parents. His father committed suicide in 2008 and it heavily affected him. Professor Green said of his father's suicide and upbringing that "This album helped — writing about it was my way to deal with it." The album, thus, is generally more emotional than his previous album, Alive Till I'm Dead, which covered more humorous themes. Ed Drewett and Emeli Sandé, who had previously worked on Alive Till I'm Dead, were featured on the album.
In general, the album has received mixed reviews from music critics. However, RWD Magazine gave the album 4/5 stars and stated 'Introspective and reflective, this borders on emo-rap on occasions, while retaining edginess on the sonic side'.MTV UK gave the album a positive review stating 'From hip-hop, to UK garage influences, this slick LP really does have it all.'The Guardian awarded the album 3/5 stars, saying 'It's difficult to reconcile Green's more crass verses with his sentimental numbers; Astronaut's tale of innocent rape victim turned junkie sits uncomfortably next to all the phallus jokes and Eminem-style sadism of songs such as Into the Ground. It's a heavy, ambivalent confessional, but Green's precocious personality and distinctive flow manage to keep it fired up.'