Common "Resurrection": C/D

but yeah, this is still commons best album. one day it will all make sense had great/brilliant moments but a lot of boring beats, but that signalled the end was near for common. hes been really boring since. be is the best album hes made since one day.

Common strikes me as hip-hop's Stevie Wonder, in that he can make great sentimental love songs, catchy pop songs and angry political songs with equal ease and eloquence. I've never understood how people can call him boring, to my ears he's one of the brightest lights of hip-hop in the 2000s.

That NO I.D "black album" is real nice and it shits all over Common' boring album from the same year ("one day.."). "We rock like so" is my joint.

Relativity was a great label...I recently made a best of Relativity cd..

1. Beatnuts-world famous intro (the one from "stone crazy" aka the best album intro ever)
2. Common-soul by the pound remix (my favorite track of his until "the corner")
3. Fat Joe, Grand Puba, Diamond D-watch the sound ('Puba sez : "it's the god and i still bag chicks/makin' niggas happy like a faggot with a bag of dicks")
4. MOP, Kool G. Rap-stick to ya gunz (top 10 verse of all time by 'G Rap)
5. Beatnuts-reign of the tec (in an ideal universe every song would have a Sadat X sample)
6. Common-resurrection Large Pro remix
7. NO I.D, Dug Infinite-we rock like so
8. Beatnuts, Grand Puba-are you ready? ('Puba sez : "oops, i didn't mean to call you a ho, bitch/but when you try to clock the pocket that's that bullshit")
9. MOP, Teflon-firing squad
10. Fat Joe, Krs One-bronx tale (one of the most underrated pass-the-mic joints and Diamond D beats)
11. Beatnuts-here's a drink (Juju sez : "gun talk makes me crazy/i'm aggravating like screamin' babies/bitches hate me")
12. DJ Honda, Problemz-kill the noise (Problemz = mad underrated rapper..his shit with Black Attack and as part of Missin Linx alongside Al Tariq + Black Attack is all real good)
13. Fat Joe-shit is real DJ Premier remix
14. Beatnuts-niggaz know ("if it aint about profit, nigga, i can't see" + moody Electric Prunes/Axelrod sample = genius)
15. MOP, Jay Z-4 alarm blaze (technically, this song should've sucked but it was raw as fuck as was my favorite club track of '98)
16. Fat Joe, Raekwon, Armageddon, Big Pun-firewater (can't believe this shit didn't make any album)
17. Beatnuts-stone crazy
18. MOP-breakin' the rules (more MOP + Primo)

I like the idea that the derision started there. Now I feel old.

ok

"in that he can make great sentimental love songs"

his love songs make me wretch, mostly. all that sensitive but ultimately cliched and insincere new man BS. its basically like muesli-pimp talk.

"catchy pop songs"

ok, he has a few.

"and angry political songs"

i dont know if i know any good political songs by common. song for assata shakur was so so boring. it was like hearing a droll audio book being recited. and that song about 'forgiving' his gay friend for well, being gay on EC was pretty painful as well.

song for assata shakur was so so boring. it was like hearing a droll audio book being recited.

This is OTM though.

Now I feel old.

I won't lie, I've been on hip-hop for half my life, but I'm still New Jack when it comes to anything pre-04 that wasn't on the radio. It's embarassing and I spend a lot of time reading rap bloggers as penanace.

And whenever it is that the derision started, I really fuckin like Be! I've been giving it a few fresh listens and it comes across as very organic (no boho?) and even more focused than it seemed initally.

See, I like it because it doesn't sound too "jazz-rap"-ish. There are obviously some live elements but it's not that easy to tell what's sampled, and the beats sound relatively hard.

(except for the obligatory end track w/Kareem Riggins on drums and his pops on spoken word)

No Sense, no credibility.

-- It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Saturday, October 28, 2006 12:46 AM

;_;

This gets a chapter in Check the Technique, enlightening shit.

Is "still a warrior but don't have to show gun" a Wu subliminal?

and that song about 'forgiving' his gay friend for well, being gay on EC was pretty painful as well

Wrong. Here are the lines in question (from "Between Me, You & Liberation"):

He spoke with his eyes, tear-filled
A lump in his throat, his fear built
My whole life it was in steel
This ain't the way that men feel
A feeling, he said he wish he could kill
A feeling, not even time could heal
This is how real life's supposed to be?
For it to happen to someone close to me?
So far we'd come, for him to tell me
As he did, insecurity held me
I felt like he failed me
To the spirit, yelled help me
I'd known him for like what seemed forever
About going pro we dreamed together
Never knew it would turn out like this
For so long he tried to fight this
Now there was no way for him to ignore it
His parents found out and hated him for it
How could I judge him? Had to accept him if I truly loved him
No longer he said had he hated himself
Through sexuality he liberated himself
Between me and you

Coming from a recovering homophobe (see "Dooinit"), that's pretty strong stuff.

I think we also talked about that on the Finding Forever thread.

Brokeback ain't the way of the game now, though.

that said, a co-worker has this and Dollar, and I'm excited to check them out! I haven't heard "Used To Love H.E.R." in years.

I happen to be listening to All Natural's "Vintage" when I spot this revive.

These guys piss me off sometimes with their misogyny masquerading as concerned strongblackmanism, but generally are pretty dope.

homeatheoriginalgangbangers

also lol @ me starting starting a C/D on this like anyone would say D

early-period hoos :D