common: classic or dud?

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hype like unsigned or ain't made shit dope sense 'can i borrow a dollar'?

― ethan, Thursday, 17 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Classic. "i used to love h.e.r.", "Resurrection", the Ice Cube/Westside Connection/Mack 10 feud and the "The Light"/"6th Sense" split 12" are the best bits. I've got a copy of "Like Water For Chocolate" somewhere but I've only listened to it a couple of times. Not as good as he used to be? Probably.

The duddest bit? Canibus and Common Sense - "Makin A Name For Ourselves":

"Me and my man Common Sense/Rallying troops like Joseph Stalin... Y'all niggaz is scared/I'm your worst nightmare squared/That's double for niggaz who ain't mathematically aware."

True if your worst nightmare is 0 or 2. The track's shit too.

― Greg, Friday, 18 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

everyone and their mother complained about the mathematical fuck-up on 'making a name for ourselves' (including tanya on her lyric watch thing, i think)but i don't see any other shit wrong with it. the subtle minimalist spy beat works and it's nice to see canibus get some nice production for a change. that 'canibus is an animal with a mechanical mandible' line is fucking amazing.

― ethan, Friday, 18 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

"Like Water For Chocolate"; lifechangingly dud, in that it was the record that stopped me following whatever was the undie trend of the moment. Don't know enough about his other stuff to comment, but my *experience* of Common is dud.

― Robin Carmody, Friday, 18 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

The only thing of Common's I've liked is his appearance on Armand Van Helden's "Full Moon". "The Light" and "The Sixth Sense" were okay I guess, but not much more.

― Tim, Friday, 18 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

true if your worst nightmare is 0 or 2.

Or -2, an idea I find, at some level, strangely plausible. Minus two - WOOOH!

― Nick, Sunday, 20 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Nick, stop doing this to me. People will think me sad.

(-2) x (-2) = 4

However, (-2) doubled = -4...

― mark s, Sunday, 20 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Sorry Mark. But I think you come out of this much better than I do. My excuse is a terrible hangover.

― Nick, Sunday, 20 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

This decent lyricist and boring rapper is not going to pave the way for an underground takeover.

― Jack Redelfs, Monday, 21 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

seven years pass...

this UMC album isnt THAT bad. too much of the work is done by the hooks but i quite like hearing him do old JBs impressions.

― uk grime faggot (titchyschneiderMk2), Thursday, 22 January 2009 16:15 (fifteen years ago) link

also ill take this (well bits of it) over another album of bedgrudging trad/neo soul rap.

― uk grime faggot (titchyschneiderMk2), Thursday, 22 January 2009 16:17 (fifteen years ago) link

three months pass...

haha.

― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Friday, 24 April 2009 08:31 (fourteen years ago) link

seven years pass...

Common To Produce ’90s Rapper Comedy Titled ’93 Til Infinity’

Titled 93 Til Infinity the single camera buddy comedy will be produced by Common and Hamilton‘s very own Thomas Kail, and written by Ian Edelman.
The show will follow a prolific black rapper from the ’90s that is struggling in the present day to figure out the next chapter of his life. In the process he reconnects with his white best friend from middle school; struggles with family and other personal responsibilities; and is simply trying to get a much needed midlife reboot.

http://www.okayplayer.com/news/common-to-produce-90s-rapper-comedy-titled-93-til-infinity.html

― PappaWheelie V, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 22:38 (seven years ago) link

That sounds incredibly self-indulgent.

― Austin, Thursday, 20 October 2016 04:23 (seven years ago) link

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