"[15] Vibe magazine's Rondell Conway wrote about the album: "With scathing lyricism and infectious beats, Truth validates the Queen Bee's position as the definitive rap vixen.

"[4] Rating the album 9/10, PopMatters wrote: "All in all, The Naked Truth is a great musical and lyrical effort, as well as a timely response to the media and the peanut gallery.

Club found that The Naked Truth "could benefit from judicious cutting, but for its superior first half at least, it boasts the intimacy of a diary entry and the urgency of a kite sent straight out the penitentiary.

"[16] Rolling Stone critic Peter Relic felt that The Naked Truth "may be a convincing act of bravado, but it isn't the whole story [...] The vulnerability behind that mask is what's missing here; if she could articulate it, she might have a true classic.

"[9] Entertainment Weekly's Michael Endelman noted that the album "finds the pint-size fashionista tackling subjects beyond her typical raunchy raps and odes to conspicuous consumption.

"[6] Sal Cinquemani, writing for Slant Magazine, found that "the preemptively defensive album's biggest problem is that it's surely nowhere near as interesting as its yet-to-be-recorded post-slammer follow-up will be.

"[10] Less impressed, Kelefa Sanneh from The New York Times called The Naked Truth a "surprisingly dull album, with too many stale conceits and run-of-the-mill beats.

He wrote: "Hopefully, Kim's year away will leave her refreshed and ready to make a return album that's as exciting and as colorful as Hard Core or La Bella Mafia.