It features guest appearances from Aceyalone, B-Real, Everlast, and Likwit Crew members Defari, Phil Da Agony, Planet Asia, and tha Alkaholiks.

[3] Rob Sheffield for Rolling Stone gave the album 2 out of 5 possible stars, saying "Dilated Peoples are still painfully tame on the mike, especially Evidence, who hits a dubious milestone in The Platform by becoming the first rapper ever to utter the words "between you and I".

[5] Veteran critic Robert Christgau picked out two songs—"The Platform" and "Triple Optics"—as choice cuts at his Consumer Guide column for The Village Voice.

[6] MTV named the album "one of those timeless long-players, like Run-DMC's Raising Hell or EPMD's Strictly Business, where you'll want to commit every track to memory".

Club wrote that the album "would benefit from greater lyrical diversity, and it suffers from moments of monotony and inertia, but it's a promising debut from a group that should only improve with time".