title: This Right Here Is Buck 65
text: # This Right Here Is Buck 65
  
  This Right Here Is Buck 65 is a compilation album by Canadian hip hop musician Buck 65. It was released on V2 Records in 2005.
  
  ## Critical reception
  
  Professional ratings :
  
  | Aggregate scores ||
  | - | - |
  | Source | Rating |
  | Metacritic | 85/100 |
  | Review scores ||
  | Source | Rating |
  | AllMusic | |
  | Alternative Press | 4/5 |
  | Blender | |
  | Entertainment Weekly | A− |
  | Pitchfork | 7.0/10 |
  | PopMatters | 9/10 |
  | Rolling Stone | |
  | Slant Magazine | |
  | Spin | A− |
  | The Village Voice | A− |
  
  At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 85, based on 14 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".
  
  Suzanne Ely of Entertainment Weekly gave the album a grade of "A−", commenting that "this oddly captivating country-rap hybrid of an album suggests we're entering a new frontier in hip-hop, with Buck as the foremost pioneer." Matthew Murphy of Pitchfork gave the album a 7.0 out of 10, writing, "though the album probably serves as an accurate snapshot of his headspace at one fixed point in time, the mercurial nature of Buck's talents have fated this to seem as yet another transitional work."
  
  ## Personnel
  
  Credits adapted from liner notes.
  
  * Buck 65 – vocals, turntables, production
  * Andrew Glencross – keyboards
  * Dale Murray – pedal steel guitar
  * Charles Austin – guitar, instruments, production, recording, engineering, mixing
  * Graeme Campbell – keyboards, sequencer, programming, effects, edits, production, recording, engineering, mixing
  * Michael Catano – drums, recording assistance, engineering assistance
  * J. LaPointe – mixing (9)
  * Bernie Grundman – mastering
  