Blood in My Eye
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| Studio album by Ja Rule | ||||
| Released | November 4, 2003 | |||
| Recorded | 2002–03 | |||
| Genre | East Coast hip hop, gangsta rap, hardcore hip hop | |||
| Length | 44:56 | |||
| Label | Murder Inc., Def Jam | |||
| Producer | Irv Gotti | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 45/100 |
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| AllMusic |   |
| Entertainment Weekly | C |
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| RapReviews | 5.5/10 |
Blood in My Eye is the fifth studio album by American rapper Ja Rule; it released on November 4, 2003, by Murder Inc. and Def Jam. The album was originally planned to be released as a mixtape. The release of the album took place during the feud with Shady/Aftermath rappers 50 Cent, G-Unit, Eminem, D12, Dr. Dre, Obie Trice, along with artists including DMX and Busta Rhymes and was entirely dedicated to dissing them. The album was named after George Jackson's radical book of the same name.
Hussein Fatal of Outlawz, Cadillac Tah, James Gotti, Sizzla, Black Child, Young Merc, D.O. Cannon, Shadow, and Sekou 720 are listed as guest appearances on this album. Blood in My Eye debuted at number 6 on the Billboard 200 chart, with first-week sales of 139,000 copies in the United States.
Blood in My Eye garnered mixed reviews from music critics, skeptical of Ja's lyrical skills as a hardcore rapper. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 45, based on 8 reviews.
Beccy Lindon of The Guardian called the record "a rough, back-to-basics rap album", noting that it is filled with guest verses from hardcore rappers and devoid of R&B artists, concluding that it is "more concerned with answering critics and continuing the backbiting with the Death Row camp." Jon Caramanica, writing for Rolling Stone, commended Ja for breaking away from his usual love duet formula to deliver shots at other rappers but said that "the boasts here feel utterly tired. And so does the attitude." Michael Endelman of Entertainment Weekly found the album to be "a dull slog with a dearth of hooks and a surfeit of gangsta clichés."
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