Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	80/100
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
The A.V. Club	favorable
The Guardian
HipHopDX
Paste	favorable
Pitchfork Media	7.4/10
PopMatters
Robert Christgau	A−
Stylus Magazine	B
XLR8R	favorable

The Craft is the third studio album by American hip hop duo Blackalicious. It was released on ANTI- on September 27, 2005. Chief Xcel said, "The Craft is our passion to bring discipline to this music, the passion to keep growing, keep stretching, keep doing things we haven't before."

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, The Craft received an average score of 80% based on 22 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".

Jack Booty of Prefix gave the album a 7.0 out of 10, saying, "[Chief] Xcel's production doesn't stray very far from its R&B and soul influences, but this time it comes without almost any samples, relying sometimes on players from a homebrewed funk band to create clearance-free beats instead."

It ranked at number 6 on Exclaim!'s "Hip-Hop: Year in Review 2005" list.

The album has sold 67,000 copies in the US as of August 2015.

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