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

[I love Latina women]

That would've been dope!

He was actually on the Loud tour back in the day, with Mobb, Pun, dead prez, Raekwon and Beatnuts. That was definitely his kinda vibe and they all used to work together back then. He would've fit right in at the label.

Yup. remember he was in Fat Joe's "Success" video back in the day? video had Raekwon, Nas, Rosie Perez, Ghost, etc etc in it

 

[I love Latina women]

I would put more blame on the loss of JDilla.

They had the best partnership


Common/Dilla >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Common/OldSaneKanye

yeah

i can listen to this all day and never ever get tired of it. it takes me back to a much better time in my life.

 

[I love Latina women]

I get everything you're saying but that Soulquarians era and everyone associated with them...that was a true lightning in a bottle experience.

I have a playlist that started as a 2 disc mix that I curated back in HS (which I dubbed "Chillonious") that is just music from that collective...TIMELESS MUSIC that I intend to pass along to my niece when she's old enough.

You had peak:
Common
Roots
Pharaoh
Mos
Bilal
Dilla
D'Angelo
Badu
Talib & Hi Tek

And I'm so thankful that I got to experience at a time where I was maturing out of rap and finding my love for hip hop

yeah, it really was.

i use to have a bunch of their music on mix cds i made a years ago but i lost them when i moved.

yup. it was a whole family of like minded artists who had such a unique and soulful sound with their music at that time.

bruh, that time was special because the music was so good.

 

[I love Latina women]

Be is my favorite album from Common after that everything has been meh to me. Up to that point the only album I never liked was Electric Circus

Funny thing is it was a girlfriend I had off and on from 16-22 that got me into Common. I fukked with a few of his songs but I never really listened until One Day It’ll All Make Sense. She was into all that neo soul shyt. I was more of a Wu, Bootcamp, Nas, Mobb Deep, Redman type dude

word?

my favorite joint off that album is It's Your World and then Chi City

i feel that. Electric Circus was one of those albums that most people didn't like, i think im one very few who liked Electric Circus

lol oh yeah? One Day It'll All Make Sense is his most balanced to this day IMO. that album has the witty/sharp rhymes, great songs, and good production

One Day It'll All Make Sense is like a more well-rounded Resurrection with the wordplay but also it's like a more personal album where you could see he was growing as an artist and a person.

 

[I love Latina women]

Nah, there was still an attitude present up until the mid-00s. Post-Gap Common ain't saying "In a circle of fakkits, your name is mentioned" and telling dudes they rhyme like a nikka with his nipples pierced or doing skits where he's pretending to be a female ally while smacking bytches up - all of those were from were from Like Water For Chocolate. And Ressurrection still had a lot of knucklehead lyrics, it was just over jazz samples

EXACTLY!

 

[Art Barr]

Black Thought, too. It's always funny that being part of The Roots put Thought in a box when dude is actually a Philly goon that just so happened to be friends with ?uestlove since they were kids. He has more in common with State Prop than Soulquarians.

Stop.


This nikka black thought is the grand master simptep.



Art Barr

 

[Art Barr]

word?

my favorite joint off that album is It's Your World and then Chi City

i feel that. Electric Circus was one of those albums that most people didn't like, i think im one very few who liked Electric Circus

lol oh yeah? One Day It'll All Make Sense is his most balanced to this day IMO. that album has the witty/sharp rhymes, great songs, and good production

One Day It'll All Make Sense is like a more well-rounded Resurrection with the wordplay but also it's like a more personal album where you could see he was growing as an artist and a person.

Low key electric circus was one of his best showing lyrically.
As far as being technical sound and closing the breaks.
Completely with an ill factor of aggression lyrically.
It just gets lost in the dialogue of electric circus sonic direction. As well as the name of the album.


Art Barr





Art Barr

 

[jilla82]

‘The People’ sounds like it was made for Obama’s campaign

this is how all his music sound now

like breh thinks about how to not offend folks when he's making music

 

[Playaz Eyez]

Nope

 

[ShaDynasty]

Can I Borrow A Dollar and Resurrection are my favorite Common albums.

 

[BuddahMAC]

everything current has the same cadence as the Microsoft commercials

 

[Mac Ten]

yeah, D'angelo went through it after the "How Does It Feel" music video. that shyt literally broke him down, like mentally.

in fact, i remember years ago Questlove said something to the effect of "D' just wants to get fat, grow out his hair, live in the woods and drink moonshine"

D was over the music industry after that "How Does It Feel" video.

then he was dealing with being an alcoholic and a coke habit too

Bruh just wants the respect as an artist; he's a musician's musician. Real introverted brother

I’m glad that D is not putting out albums just to put em out….


That’s a blessing.


I bet he got fat to avoid those women feeling on him.

 

[I love Latina women]

I’m glad that D is not putting out albums just to put em out….


That’s a blessing.


I bet he got fat to avoid those women feeling on him.

On one hand yeah, it looks great when your catalog isn’t cluttered with quick cash grabs or lackluster albums

but on the other hand, D is very lazy and I say this as a fan of his lol

Sade taking off a lot of time between albums is one thing because she didn’t start doing that shyt after she had a few albums out but D took a decade and then some after his second album

Granted he had some issues to work on (drugs) but an artist who really ain’t even got their feet wet taking that amount of time off after just two albums is insane

 

[TheDarceKnight]

I felt this way since Finding Forever.

I do fukk with the Pete Rock album for the most part though

 

[RichYung]

Charlamagne documentary music