| Give Me My Flowers While I Can Still Smell Them | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Blu & Exile |
| Cover: | Bluexileflower.jpg |
| Recorded: | 2009 |
| Genre: | Hip hop |
| Label: | Dirty Science/Fat Beats |
| Producer: | Exile |
| Prev Title: | Below the Heavens |
| Prev Year: | 2007 |
| Next Title: | In the Beginning: Before the Heavens |
| Next Year: | 2017 |
Give Me My Flowers While I Can Still Smell Them is the second studio album by American hip hop duo Blu & Exile. Originally recorded in 2009 and leaked online in 2011, it was released by Dirty Science and Fat Beats on September 4, 2012.[1]
The album features guest contributions from Fashawn, Homeboy Sandman, Johaz of Dag Savage, Black Spade of Hawthorne Headhunters, and ADAD.[2] [3] [4]
At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 76% based on 5 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
David Amidon of PopMatters gave the album 8 stars out of 10, saying, "Blu may have spent most of his post-Below the Heavens career burning one bridge after another, but Give Me My Flowers is not only a better album, it's an atonement for all the swerves he's thrown audiences' way since breaking out." Meanwhile, Phillip Mlynar of HipHopDX gave the album a 3.0 out of 5, saying, "Blu and Exile are without doubt a couple of super-talented Rap chaps, but they need to step out of their snug comfort zone – and sharply."
| Chart | Peak position |
|---|---|
| US Heatseekers Albums (Billboard)[5] | 31 |
| US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)[6] | 53 |