A Gift & a Curse

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Source	Rating
Metacritic	68/100[2]
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Source	Rating
AllMusic	[3]
Clash	7/10[4]
Mic Cheque	7.5/10[5]
Pitchfork	5.9/10[6]
Slant Magazine	6/10[7]

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A Gift & a Curse received generally positive reviews. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from professional publications, the album received an average score of 68, based on six reviews.^[2] The album was "Complex" album of the year for 2023 The album was "Complex. https://www.yearendlists.com/2023/complex-the-best-albums-of-2023 Robin Murray of Clash wrote that the album was "succinct, finessed, and packs a punch".^[4] Writing for Mic Cheque, Hamza Riaz opined that it "shows that Gunna is YSL's most valuable asset, constantly honing his sound and this time adding a new layer to his predictable output".^[5] In a mixed review, Alphonse Pierre of Pitchfork felt like the album was "too vague to have much depth and too absorbed in real-life drama to have the feel-good vibes he wants to preserve".^[6] Writing for Slant Magazine, Paul Attard felt that "Gunna gives us more of himself than he ever has before, and even if much of the lyrical substance of the album is undermined in a few weeks' time, that in and of itself is worth celebrating".^[7]

In the United States, A Gift & a Curse debuted at number three on Billboard 200 chart, earning 85,000 album-equivalent units (including 1,000 in pure album sales) in its first week. This became Gunna's fifth top ten album in total, with four out of the five credited to him, on the chart. The album also accumulated a total of 112.65 million on-demand streams of the album's songs.^[8]