Rolling Stone (p.86)
- 4 stars out of 5 -- "The Beasties stir-fry all kinds of beats in their wok, from old-school hip-hop and head-checking punk to bossa nova and reggae..."Rolling Stone (5/13/99, p.66)
- Included in Rolling Stone's "Essential Recordings of the 90's." Rolling Stone (8/6/98)
- 4 Stars (out of 5)
- "...the collaboration that Black Flag and De La Soul might have made, mixing jaunty samples and esoteric beats with punk-guitar crunch....Hip-hop hasn't unleashed anything this fantastically dense since the heyday of De La and Public Enemy..." Spin (1/99, p.91)
- Ranked #10 on Spin's list of "Top 20 Albums of '98." Spin (8/98, pp.135-136)
- 7 (out of 10)
- "...HELLO NASTY...is filled with so much money-makin' and disco-breakin' on and on till the breakadawn, you'd think we'd taken the way-back machine into the early Kangol era. Yet such recapping doesn't sound even faintly kitschy. More like a labor of love by three premillennial mensches laying their roots down: a B-boy Anthology of New York Folk Music..." Entertainment Weekly (7/17/98, pp.81-82)
- "...a sonic smorgasbord in which the Beasties gorge themselves with reckless abandon...The melange makes for a looser, more free-spirited record than their earlier albums; the music invites you in, rather than threatening to shut you out..." - Rating: B Mixmag (1/99, p.49)
- Included in Mixmag's "Ten Best Albums of 98" - "...electro-tinged beats and whiney rapping..." CMJ (1/6/03, p.18)
- Included in CMJ's list of "Top 25 College Radio Albums of All Time" CMJ (1/11/99, p.5)
- "...The chart-topping album finds the Beasties re-enhancing the three-way rhyme antics of their LICENSED TO ILL days using soulsonic electro-funk, cheeky bossa nova, Rachmaninoff loops and some death defying turntable moves..." The Source (9/98, p.256)
- "...What underlies the Beastie sound, and ultimately their widespread appeal, is their obvious appreciation of other music....Mike's scratches add another layer to the album's mighty production..." Rap Pages (11/98, p.130)
- 4 (out of 5)
- "...HELLO NASTY continues their musical reign...Lyrically, they deliver their made-for-concert verses in perfect unison..." Q (Magazine)
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- 4 stars out of 5 -- "Recorded back in New York and acknowledging that the most powerful tracks on ILL COMMUNICATION were the ones where they stepped up to the mic, it marked a partial return to basics..." | 
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