Is it just me or does Common’s music just seem….. bland now?

[Awesome Wells]

That’s the year that they let me on this site too…


Neo Soul is dead. It was good while it lasted.


Social media exposed guys like Mos Def and Talib Kweli as grifters.


I can see why Kanye used these cats and moved on. They were whole characters trying to be something they’re not.

I used to always say this back on SOHH.

Those dudes were literally the people they used to claim they hated, on their records. But in real life! Buncha frauds and con-men with head wraps on and incense burning. But these dudes were actually worse than the damn "gangsta rappers" that they swore were bad for the culture. Look at them now.

 

[Don Homer]

he peaked with Be

The Dreamer The Believer was really his last hurrah to me. that was 13 years ago

 

[DraymondT]

Black men walking wit white girls on they arms. I be mad at 'em as if I know they moms

 

[Mac Ten]

I used to always say this back on SOHH.

Those dudes were literally the people they used to claim they hated, on their records. But in real life! Buncha frauds and con-men with head wraps on and incense burning. But these dudes were actually worse than the damn "gangsta rappers" that they swore were bad for the culture. Look at them now.

At least Dead Prez never messed with White meat and sold out black folks…

U got Talib and Mos smashing a bunch of vanilla groupies after shows.


Even Jill Scott was getting her big ass plowed down.

Maxwell and D’Angelo didn’t end up weird or exposed as scumbags

 

[zayk35]

I remember hearing about Common for the 1st time around 95-96 off the strength of his beef with Cube. I had also just really started actually reading the "Source Magazine" cover to cover. The way they would always describe him like he was some "virtuoso" I decided to take a listen.......
Needless to say I have never been impressed by him as a rapper whatsoever. I did like "the corner " but pretty much strictly off of "that era" of Kanye production. Other than that he's always been pretty bland to me. But I do like how he's parlayed his career into other big time things. When he shows up they make it seem like he was bigger rapper than he ever was. Did he even ever go platinum?

 

[Awesome Wells]

Maxwell and D’Angelo didn’t end up weird or exposed as scumbags

Maxwell was smoking crack or some wild sh*t like that, back in the late 90's. He had to take a break from music for like 6-7 years to get clean.

And D'Angelo was always weird, but not in a way that f*cks other people over, lol.

But yeah, the whole neo soul thing was trash, to me. They came in on some "holier than thou" sh*t against other R&B acts, and they were the real degenerates of the music business.

 

[Awesome Wells]

Needless to say I have never been impressed by him as a rapper whatsoever.

Dude is still one of the best ever.

But if you didn't hear about him until his beef with Cube, you were wild late to the show.

 

[up in here]

See Finding Forever was when I stopped checking for him

That album was where he lost me and I stopped listening to his music up until this year


Yeah I was trying to think of how to describe how his music sounds now and that’s it

Yeah FF was the last time I really checked for him. Half the album was fire but half the album was trash

 

[Pegasus Jackson]

nikka been making elevator snooze hop for several years. This isn't some fukking revelation. Pete got him out of that box a bit though.

 

[TripleAgent]

LL’s album sounds like a revised version of Todd Smith/Exit 13

If by revised you mean infinitely improved, okay.

 

[Renegade47]

Neosoul leaders didn’t like being called neosoul and let their moment pass instead of creating a genre

tbh it was a corny ass label and not a genre its just rnb and rap with 7th and 9th jazz progressions.

 

[nieman]

He's been the same rapper since forever. Matter of fact, the attitude and flair some are claiming he had is the rarity.

Can I Borrow a Dollar really is his only rap with aggression album. Resurrection, Be & The Auditorium are his peaks. Everything else is one note, or trash. His subject matter doesn't change, so then is comes down to sonically and sequencing. But he's just not for everyone and the older people get, tastes change, but there's a reason Com's name isn't mentioned like that...and I'm a fan and have 95% of his albums since he began.

 

[Mac Ten]

Maxwell was smoking crack or some wild sh*t like that, back in the late 90's. He had to take a break from music for like 6-7 years to get clean.

And D'Angelo was always weird, but not in a way that f*cks other people over, lol.

But yeah, the whole neo soul thing was trash, to me. They came in on some "holier than thou" sh*t against other R&B acts, and they were the real degenerates of the music business.

Word??

Like DMX smoking woolies

 

[Awesome Wells]

Can I Borrow a Dollar really is his only rap with aggression album.

Nah, some of his most aggressive rapping was on One Day It'll All Make Sense.

That's one of his best albums that people seem to constantly overlook. Sh*t started getting weird after that one, until Be.

 

[NYC Rebel]

Neo Soul and backpackers are just as scumbaggish as they ones they claim to hate… now I see why Nas dissed that genre and called out The Roots.


- Jaguar Wright was a Thot for Talib and The Roots and now she’s bitter

- Jill Scott was out here being Lizzo behind closed doors and having a affinity for swallowing dikk like a Chocolate Eclair

- Talib was working with Gucci Mane

- Mos Def out here simping up strippers

- Erykah Badu was out here getting preggo by different rappers and in the process they lost their powers.

• Andre started wearing Kilts and dressing weird.


- Questlove became a cuck

• Common went from wearing baggy pants to holding up a sign in the Come Closer video . DOC turned out fine


• Jay Electronica started dating a Rothschild

Its weird to me, but almost all of these artists let you know through their music they are exactly who they are.