Reviewing in his Vice Expert Witness column, Robert Christgau described the song as a "pseudo-freestyle meta-wink" and called it a narcissist's version of The College Dropout track "We Don't Care" that is "almost as funny". Christgau elaborated, writing: "The sour-grapes self-examination morphs into a pseudo-outlet track." In a somewhat mixed review for The Daily Telegraph, Neil McCormick wrote "I love you like Kanye loves Kanye" is West's apparent "idea of an ultimate compliment" and noticed the line is likely his attempt "to make a joke about perceptions of his egomania" while deriding how "underlying it is an actual egomania that blinds West to just how narrow his self-obsession really is". In NME, Gavin Haynes dismissed the song's "postmodern LOLs" as one of the "unwelcome guests" on the album.
