 Jayson Rodriguez of MTV praised the song , reporting " this all @-@ star cipher is a backpackers dream as Ye 's GOOD Music soldiers fire away with resolve . But the Brooklyn icon , Jay @-@ Z , steals the show with an edgy verse dismissing his critics with a 16 that 's as pushy as a New Yorker during rush hour . Please , Hammer , stop replying . " Slant Magazine 's Cole Mathews thought that the song returned West to his hard rap origins , commenting " with the posse cuts ' Monster ' and ' So Appalled ' , Kanye kicks out the two hardest rap tracks of his career . " Becky Bain of <unk> described the song as a " dramatic , gloomy epic of a tune that has each artist taking turns at the mic . " He expressed that trying to find Kanye ’ s verse was " virtually a musical Where ’ s Waldo " . It was noted for its impressive roster of features and was described as " another Kanye West @-@ helmed all @-@ star <unk> " by MTV 's <unk> Ziegbe . He noted that Cyhi managed to hold his own against several much more regarded rappers . Embling of Tiny Mix Tapes described the song as a super @-@ sized cypher , stating that the track was packed with plenty of " <unk> " from the group of rappers . 
