Some Love Lost received generally positive reviews from music critics. Carl Lamarre of XXL said, "While Some Love Lost serves as merely an appetizer to his upcoming album All Love Lost, Joe Budden’s anguish and candor on this project will do more than enough to hold over his ravenous fan base."[5] Andre Grant of HipHopDX stated, "As a meal before the main course, Some Love Lost, is a lonely one. But Joe’s change in style (to the autobiographical slaughter it is now) is interesting, and he claims he’s got his best work on deck. As for this one, it is an ambitious dumping of his tragedies on paper. But it also leaves Joe and this project rolling a rock up hill that never quite gets there."[4]
Commercial performance
The album debuted at number 55 on the Billboard 200, with sales of 7,695 copies in the United States.[6]