 In a less enthusiastic review for MSN Music , Robert Christgau gave Life Is Good a three @-@ star honorable mention , citing " Daughters " and " Accident Murderers " as highlights and deeming the record " reflections of a bigshot who , as he mentions several times , is damn big " . AllMusic 's David Jeffries called it a " puff @-@ chested bitch session " and felt " Nas needed to get [ this album ] out of his system , acting as a clearing house for all venom and bile , plus some gloss that doesn 't fit but needed to go as well . " New York Times critic Jon Caramanica felt his narratives were " sometimes distractingly fanciful " and his lyrics occasionally " overstuffed " , even though the record possessed " a simulacrum of the sound that made him legendary " . Matthew Fiander from PopMatters was more critical , finding the production " uneven " and calculated " as product " , with " half @-@ done ideas " . 
