 Robert Christgau gave the album a B+, saying "At first it sounds as if the bad guys won—from sexy stories to O.G.kissoffs, he spends too much time proving he's still Ice Motherfucking T. But in fact he contextualizes himself as shrewdly as ever".Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic gave the album two and a half stars out of five, saying "Given the fact that most of "Home Invasion" was recorded during and after the "Cop Killer" media firestorm, it comes as no surprise that the album is an uneven, muddled affair, not the clean, focused attack of "O.G.