Rainbow Edition

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Rainbow Edition
Studio album by
Released25 August 2017 (2017-08-25)
Length36:56
Hype Williams chronology
Chalice
(2017)
Rainbow Edition
(2017)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 61/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Crack Magazine 8/10 [3]
Pitchfork 6.4/10 [4]
PopMatters 3/10 [5]

Rainbow Edition is a studio album by British musical duo Hype Williams. It was released in August 2017 under Big Dada.

Contents

Accolades

PublicationAccoladeRankRef.
Crack Magazine Top 100 Albums of 2017
60
[6]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Madting"0:58
2."Loud Challenge"3:26
3."The Whole Lay"2:27
4."Baby Blu"1:22
5."Smokebox"0:50
6."Rumor Report"1:17
7."Puredamage"0:28
8."Leimert"2:40
9."#Blackcardsmatter"4:33
10."Sadting"0:43
11."Ask Yee"2:10
12."This Is Mister Bigg. How You Doing Mister Bigg"1:17
13."The Den"0:55
14."Cockblocker Blues"1:30
15."Sweet Chin Musik"0:34
16."Pretty Young Ting"0:56
17."Percy"1:18
18."Spinderella's Dream"6:18
19."Situations"1:12
20."Kandy"2:02

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