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The Family Sign

2011 studio album by Atmosphere

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Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic73/100
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic
BBCfavorable
Consequence of SoundC+
HipHopDX4.0/5
Pitchfork Media5.8/10
Slant Magazine

The Family Sign is the sixth studio album by American hip hop group Atmosphere. It was released on Rhymesayers Entertainment on April 12, 2011. The album debuted at number 13 on the Billboard 200 selling 28,000 copies in its first week.

01Reception

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, The Family Sign received an average score of 73% based on 20 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".

Commenting on Slug's writing on The Family Sign for College Magazine, Taylor Jaymes wrote that he "is as much a rapper as he is a poet."

02Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."My Key"4:20
2."The Last to Say"4:16
3."Became"4:45
4."Just for Show"3:39
5."She's Enough"3:19
6."Bad Bad Daddy"3:33
7."Millennium Dodo"3:21
8."Who I'll Never Be"3:08
9."I Don't Need Brighter Days"4:05
10."Ain't Nobody"3:17
11."Your Name Here"3:37
12."If You Can Save Me Now"3:52
13."Something So"3:41
14."My Notes"2:18
15."Millennium Dodo 2" (iTunes deluxe edition bonus track)3:56
16."Cut You Down" (iTunes deluxe edition bonus track)4:14
Total length:59:21

03Personnel

  • Slug, Vocals
  • Ant, Production
  • Nate Collis, Guitar
  • Erick Anderson, Keyboards

04Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (2011) Peak
position
US Billboard 200 13
US Independent Albums (Billboard) 2
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard) 3

Year-end charts

Chart (2011) Position
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard) 88
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