Buck the World is the fourth solo studio album by American rapper Young Buck. It was released on March 27, 2007, through G-Unit/Interscope Records, marking it his second and final major label solo full-length. The album's title is a play on the expression, "Fuck the world".
The second single off of the album, "Get Buck", was a minor success, reaching number 87 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number 43 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs in the US.
Buck the World was met with generally favourable reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 70, based on fourteen reviews.[1]
Simon Vozick-Levinson of Entertainment Weekly praised the album, calling it "G-Unit's strongest LP in recent memory".[4]AllMusic's David Jeffries described it as "a well-built and surprisingly diverse album",[3] and Steve 'Flash' Juon of RapReviews called it "a fun, rambunctious, guilty pleasure of an album".[7]
Christian Hoard of Rolling Stone found "Buck spits grimy, chest-thumping boasts with ear-grabbing command".[8] Alvin Blanco of Spin noted: "despite fairly rote lyrics, Buck's ferocious flow can turn even the most cliched hood yarn into a fire-and-brimstone sermon".[9] Jayson Greene of Stylus Magazine wrote: "like his first record Straight Outta Cashville, Buck the World is a solid-to-great Southern rap genre exercise, graced with immaculate production and boasting an all-star supporting cast".[10]Pitchfork reviewer saw "the problem with Buck the World is that it's largely inconsistent. There are 15 producers over 17 tracks. Sometimes it clicks, but other times it feels forced".[6]
In mixed reviews, Tim Perlich of Now admits "the bigger problem, though, is Young Buck's yawn-inducing rhyme flow, which, paired with relentlessly slow, chugging beats, creates pure aural Sominex".[12]
In the United Kingdom, the album reached number 94 on the UK Albums Chart, number 99 on the Scottish Albums Chart and number 6 on the Hip Hop and R&B Albums Chart.
The album also made it to number 87 on the Swiss Hitparade and number 131 on the SNEP.
Track 17 contains a hidden track "Funeral Music" performed solely by 50 Cent. iTunes version of the album omitted "Lose My Mind" leaving "Funeral Music" only 3:15 in length.
Sample credits
Track 3 contains replayed elements from "My Hero Is a Gun" by Michael Masser.
Track 6 contains elements from "Everybody's Got a Good Thing" by Ronald Millender as performed by Lorlli.
Track 9 contains resung elements from "Bad Boys" by Ian Lewis.
