''100 dni do matury'' (English: ''100 days to
matura)'' is the debut studio album by Polish rapper
Mata. It was released on 18 January 2020 by the
SBM Label
SBM Label is a Polish hip-hop label based in Warsaw, Poland, until 2018 operating under the name SB Maffija Label. The label's contracted artists include rappers Solar, Białas, Beteo, White 2115, Jan-Rapowanie, Mata, Adi Nowak, Kinny Zimme ...
music label. The album debuted at No. 1 on the
Polish OLiS sales list,
later achieving quadruple platinum, and diamond in June 2022.
The album was the most listened to album by a Polish artist on the streaming platform
Spotify
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in 2020 and 5th in 2021, and the 10th most purchased album in Poland in 2020 and 27th in 2021.
Reception
The album was described by reviewers as "a decent disc, with really good moments".
Music reviewers noted Mata's
self-irony
Irony (), in its broadest sense, is the juxtaposition of what on the surface appears to be the case and what is actually the case or to be expected; it is an important rhetorical device and literary technique.
Irony can be categorized into ...
present in the lyrics,
his "linguistic prowess",
his "maturity in thinking about language",
his "studious, at times demonstrably naive perspective",
his "observational skills and naive sensitivity to the surrounding world",
and his "good technique and wide interests, which can be heard in the backing tracks, stretched widely between the old and new schools of hip-hop".
They pointed to
Taco Hemingway
Filip Tadeusz Szcześniak (born July 29, 1990), better known by the stage name Taco Hemingway (earlier FV), is an Egyptian-born Polish rapper, songwriter, and musician.
He began recording in 2011, at which time he released - under the pseudonym ...
's noticeable influence on the album.
Track listing
Awards and nominations
Charts
References
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2020 albums
Mata (rapper) albums
Polish-language albums