Recording sessions for the album took place over a period of several years, and suffered numerous delays prior to release.

Star Trak Entertainment moved on to Interscope Records, but due to contractual issues, the group was forced to stay with Jive.

Additional delays resulted when Clipse sued Jive after the label refused to grant the group a release from its contract.

[3] The music and tone on Hell Hath No Fury is much darker compared to their debut album due to the group's problematic relationship with Jive Records.

The results spray everywhere, from the vacant spending spree of "Dirty Money" to the terrifyingly earned braggadocio of "Trill".

"Trill" surrounds you with its blown-out bass sound while the tense harp plucks of "Ride", posed against clipped groans and a single straining high note, are both fractured and gorgeous.The album had features from Pharrell Williams, Slim Thug, Bilal and Re-up Gang members Ab-Liva and Sandman.

[6] Allmusic gave it a 5 star rating, and editor Andy Kellman said "Hell Hath No Fury is a lean, furious, cold-blooded album that is vividly to-the-point".

[16] Entertainment Weekly gave it an A, stating "Record company nonsense delayed Hell Hath No Fury, the crack-rap duo’s second CD, for eons, but it was worth the wait".

Pitchfork gave it a score of 9.1, and told "The long-suffering Pusha and Malice finally issue their troublesome sophomore album; a record packed with a dozen unrelenting tales of desperation and distribution, glamour and gloating that features bleak, spare Neptunes beats.

The Observer gave the album a perfect score, citing "Hell Hath No Fury is as lyrically kaleidoscopic as it is conceptually monochrome.

Spin gave it a 4 star score, and noted "On Hell Hath No Fury, Clipse transform cliches into poetry".

Club pointed out "In an age where the prevalence of superstars in guest spots threatens to turn solo albums into compilations or mix-tapes, Fury refreshingly represents the undiluted musical vision of Clipse brothers Malice and Pusha T and longtime pal Pharrell".

Los Angeles Times gave Hell Hath No Fury a score of 75, responding "There's a cold efficiency in how the Clipse delivers songs built on street-corner cockiness and billfold bluster.

[20] The Sunday Times, which ranked it fourth in its list of the best pop and rock records of 2007, called it a "claustrophobically edgy account of drug-dealing and paranoia, whipped up by The Neptunes into a storm of sonic inventiveness no other hip-hop release in 2007 came close to matching.