Retrospective reviews of the album from The Rough Guide to Hip-Hop and Spin and the Oakland Tribune as containing some of the best music of early hip hop.

[1] Oliver Wang of the Oakland Tribune discussed the music on the compilation, comparing it other contemporary hip hop tracks like the Sugar Hill Gang's "Rapper's Delight" and Kurtis Blow's "The Breaks" stating that the music was "far more clean and minimalistic -- often times little more than a rollicking breakbeat and well-placed bassline -- than much of the overproduced rap tunes of the era that aped disco production.

[1] From retrospective reviews, Carol Cooper wrote in the Spin Alternative Record Guide praised the album, stating it "preserves the special ambience of early hip hop, before all these acts were lured from Harmel-based Enjoy!

[3] In the book The Rough Guide to Hip-Hop, the album was listed as a recommended album and praised as containing "great grooves, courtesy of band led by drummer Pumpkin and percussionist Poochi Costello" and that roster of artists performing included "the best of the old school crews."

[7] Wang included the album in his article on Overlooked hip hop albums in 2007, praising the rapping as being "far more dexterous and sophisticated than many assume of the old-school legends" which led to many of the artists on the label to be signed by Sugar Hill such as Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.