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

The South Seattle rapper and co-founder of WA-BLOC — a youth development program centered around social justice — takes a sizable leap forward on his third full-length. His most polished and cohesive project to date has a lucid-dream quality, with Rell’s poised, unhurried flows suspended over slo-mo space-funk productions.