 The mixtape was included in several year @-@ end top album lists by critics and publications . It was named the ninth @-@ best album of 2011 by Stereogum in the publication 's year @-@ end list . It was ranked number 10 on Filter 's top albums list . Gorilla vs. Bear ranked the mixtape number five and stated , " Sometimes good instincts , an effortless flow , off @-@ the @-@ charts charisma , and just sounding a lot cooler than everyone else goes a long way . " In ranking it number nine , Complex commended ASAP Rocky 's " defined sound and unique aesthetic " , calling him " electric and precise on the microphone " and writing that the mixtape 's beats " bang so hard they bring Houston to Harlem . " Los Angeles Times staff writer August Brown ranked the mixtape number two on her top albums list and wrote that it " cemented " his reputation , while citing Clams Casino 's beats as " some of the year ’ s most imaginative , evocative hip @-@ hop productions . " Jonah Weiner of Slate ranked the it number five on his list and , although he cited him as part of " hip @-@ hop ’ s abiding misogynist " in 2011 , saying that he and his contemporaries " trash so many other genre orthodoxies . " 
