{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Dopestylevsky | type = studio | artist = Eprhyme | cover = Eprhyme dope.jpg | alt = | released = {{Start date|2011|04|26}} | recorded = Brooklyn, New York<br>Olympia, Washington<br>Phoenix, Arizona | venue = | studio = | genre = Alternative hip hop | length = {{Duration|m=41|s=36}} | label = K | producer = Smoke M2D6 | chronology = Eprhyme albums | prev_title = Waywordwonderwill | prev_year = 2009 | next_title = Lost Tapes and Found Sounds: 2006-2012 | next_year = 2013 | misc = {{Singles | name = Dopestylevsky | type = studio | single1 = Life Sentence | single1date = November 7, 2011 }} }}
'''''Dopestylevsky''''' is the second studio album by Jewish rapper Eprhyme, released on April 26, 2011 by K Records. It is the label's first hip-hop album in a decade, as K Records is typically known for punk and indie rock. A [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxd0nqR9pgk video] for the album's lead single, "Life Sentence", was funded by Kickstarter and released on November 7, 2011.<ref>{{cite web|author1=Chernikoff, Helen|title=Kickstarting Jewish Culture?|url=http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/new_york/kickstarting_jewish_culture|website=The Jewish Week|accessdate=7 September 2015|date=August 23, 2011}}</ref>
==Reception== {{Music ratings | title = | subtitle = | rev1 = ''PopMatters'' | rev1Score = {{Rating|5|10}}<ref name=pm>{{cite web|author1=Schiller, Mike|title=Eprhyme: Dopestylevsky|url=http://www.popmatters.com/review/144969-eprhyme-dopestylevsky/|website=PopMatters|accessdate=7 September 2015|date=August 10, 2011}}</ref> | rev2 = Tiny Mix Tapes | rev2Score = {{rating|3|5|full=TMT full.svg|half=TMT half.svg|empty=TMT empty.svg|rating=mark}}<ref name="TMT">{{cite web|author1=Monk, Jessica|title=Eprhyme - Dopestylevsky|url=http://www.tinymixtapes.com/music-review/Eprhyme-Dopestylevsky|publisher=Tiny Mix Tapes|accessdate=1 September 2015}}</ref> | rev3 = ''Skyscraper'' | rev3Score = positive<ref name="Skyscraper">{{cite web|author1=Book, John|title=Eprhyme - Dopestylevsky|url=http://www.skyscrapermagazine.com/music/eprhyme-dopestylevsky|website=Skyscraper|accessdate=1 September 2015|date=June 27, 2011}}</ref> | rev4 = ''The Forward'' | rev4Score = positive<ref name="forward">{{cite web|author1=Michaelson, Jay|title=Monday Music: Prime Time for Eprhyme|url=http://forward.com/the-assimilator/137297/monday-music-prime-time-for-eprhyme/|website=The Forward|accessdate=1 September 2015|date=May 2, 2011}}</ref> }}
''Dopestylevsky'' received largely positive reviews. Jessica Monk of Tiny Mix Tapes called it "a solid album of consciousness-raising Jewish hip-hop, [although] not an exercise in genre-bending...we can believe the hype, and take it that this well-heeled genre has finally arrived chez K."<ref name=TMT /> John Book of ''Skyscraper'' magazine said, "Eprhyme is a nice breath of clarity that isn’t the exception to any specific rule, just hip-hop music at its best."<ref name=Skyscraper /> Jay Michaelson of ''The Forward'' described it as "a more polished and more professional record" than his debut album, containing "less novelty, less preaching, but perhaps more potential to reach a wider audience with a Jewish flavor of hip-hop and rap."<ref name=forward />
In a negative review, Mike Schiller of ''PopMatters'' wrote, "Eprhyme demonstrates an impressive grasp of rhythm and rhyme, but his words are mere sounds that give us something to hold onto; they’re not meaningful, they’re not really about anything, they’re just there...''Dopestylevsky'' is a perfectly pleasant hip-hop album that won’t get on anyone’s nerves [but not] the transcendental experience its author promises, nor does it even begin to live up to the literary figure referenced by its title."<ref name=pm />
==Track listing== {{track listing |total_length = 41:36 | collapsed = | headline =
| all_writing = | all_lyrics = | all_music =
| title1 = Grind Thoroughly | length1 = 3:25
| title2 = Life Sentence | length2 = 4:03
| title3 = Poppasong | note3 = featuring Brad B and Foundation | length3 = 4:00
| title4 = Blow Up the Block | note4 = featuring DeScribe and Y-Love; prod. Electro Morocco | length4 = 4:04
| title5 = Elements of Style | note5 = featuring Labtekwon | length5 = 2:56
| title6 = Smoke Break | length6 = 2:31
| title7 = Let's Build | note7 = featuring Compost | length7 = 3:32
| title8 = Notes from the Underground | featuring = featuring Xperience and Glimpse | length8 = 4:22
| title9 = Lose Your Cool | note9 = featuring AKA | length9 = 4:21
| title10 = Divine by Design | note10 = featuring Saints of Everyday Failures | length10 = 3:33
| title11 = Better in the Dark | note11 = featuring Darshan | length11 = 4:24 }}
*"Blow Up the Block" was previously released in single form by Shemspeed as "Boom Selecta", with an extra verse by Kosha Dillz.
==Personnel== {{col-begin}} {{col-2}} *Smoke M2D6 – producer *Foundation – producer ("Poppasong") *AKA – featured artist *Brad B – featured artist *Skylar Blake – musician *Drew Cohen – vocals *Compost – featured artist *Darshan (Eprhyme and Shir Yaakov) – featured artist *DeScribe – featured artist *Glimpse – featured artist *Yosef Goldman – vocals *El Goonie – cut {{col-2}} *Rolondo Guajardo – musician *Ardas Hassler – musician *Labtekwon – featured artist *Daniel Landin – musician *Tim Pollock – musician *Poweena – vocals *Tom Russell – musician *Jeff Rygwelski – musician *Saints of Everyday Failures (Eprhyme and D-Scribe) – featured artist *Xperience – featured artist *Y-Love – featured artist {{col-end}}
== References == {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{allMusic|class=album|id=mw0002118703|title=''Dopestylevsky'' - Eprhyme|accessdate=1 September 2015}}
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Category:Eprhyme albums Category:2011 albums Category:K Records albums