In their annual year-end critics’ poll, The Seattle Times ranked Fulminate as one of the very best Seattle albums of 2020, saying:

The Tri-Cities native made good on his ambitious debut the rapper describes as a concept album centered on the perspective of a Black man in America. Over tracks often borrowing elements of jazz and electronic music, Nobi chops and dices weighty bars like a seasoned sous chef at dinner rush — meticulous, impassioned, and unflinching as he fillets institutionalized racism on songs like “New Chains.”