The Family Sign

The Family Sign is the sixth 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]

The Family Sign
Studio album by Atmosphere
Released	April 12, 2011 (2011-04-12)
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]

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]

Commenting on Slug's writing on The Family Sign for College Magazine, Taylor Jaymes wrote that he "is as much a rapper as he is a poet."^[9]

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
Total length:		59:21

Personnel

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

Charts

Weekly charts Chart (2011) Peak position US Billboard 200[10] 13 US Independent Albums (Billboard)[11] 2 US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)[12] 3

Year-end charts Chart (2011) Position US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)[13] 88