The Family Sign

The Family Sign
Studio album by Atmosphere
Released	April 12, 2011
Genre	Hip hop
Length	51:06
Label	Rhymesayers Entertainment
Producer	Ant
Atmosphere chronology
To All My Friends, Blood Makes the Blade Holy: The Atmosphere EP's (2010) The Family Sign (2011) Southsiders (2014)

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	73/100[1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
BBC	favorable[3]
Consequence of Sound	C+[4]
HipHopDX	4.0/5[5]
Pitchfork Media	5.8/10[6]
Slant Magazine	[7]

The Family Sign is a studio album by American hip hop group Atmosphere. It was released on Rhymesayers Entertainment on April 12, 2011. The album debuted at number 13 on the Billboard 200 selling 28,000 copies in its first week.^[8]

Reception

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, The Family Sign received an average score of 73% based on 20 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".^[1]

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"My Key"	4:20
2.	"The Last to Say"	4:16
3.	"Became"	4:45
4.	"Just for Show"	3:39
5.	"She's Enough"	3:19
6.	"Bad Bad Daddy"	3:33
7.	"Millennium Dodo"	3:21
8.	"Who I'll Never Be"	3:08
9.	"I Don't Need Brighter Days"	4:05
10.	"Ain't Nobody"	3:17
11.	"Your Name Here"	3:37
12.	"If You Can Save Me Now"	3:52
13.	"Something So"	3:41
14.	"My Notes"	2:18
15.	"Millennium Dodo 2" (iTunes deluxe edition bonus track)	3:56
16.	"Cut You Down" (iTunes deluxe edition bonus track)	4:14

Personnel

• Slug – Vocals
• Ant – Production
• Nate Collis – Guitar
• Erick Anderson – Keyboards

Charts

Chart	Peak position
Billboard 200[9]	13
Independent Albums[10]	2
Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums[11]	3

References

1. "The Family Sign by Atmosphere". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved July 22, 2016.
2. Jeffries, David. "Atmosphere - The Family Sign". AllMusic. Retrieved July 22, 2016.
3. Kennedy, Adam. "Atmosphere - The Family Sign - Review". BBC. Retrieved July 22, 2016.
4. Young, Alex (April 11, 2011). "Atmosphere – The Family Sign". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved July 22, 2016.
5. Cooper, Roman (April 11, 2011). "Atmosphere - The Family Sign". HipHopDX. Retrieved July 22, 2016.
6. Patrin, Nate (April 13, 2011). "Atmosphere: The Family Sign". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved July 22, 2016.
7. Cole, Matthew (April 8, 2011). "Atmosphere - The Family Sign". Slant Magazine. Retrieved July 22, 2016.
8. "Hip Hop Album Sales: The Week Ending 4/17/2011". HipHopDX. April 20, 2011. Retrieved July 22, 2016.
9. "Atmosphere - Chart history - Billboard 200". Billboard. Retrieved July 22, 2016.
10. "Atmosphere - Chart history - Independent Albums". Billboard. Retrieved July 22, 2016.
11. "Atmosphere - Chart history - Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums". Billboard. Retrieved July 22, 2016.

External links

• The Family Sign at Discogs (list of releases)