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

[maxamusa]

He was a main character in John wick. fukk music

 

[New Jeruzalem Journalist]

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.

This X 1000!!

I don't ever hear anyone big up One Day It'll All Make Sense. That's the album that had him in my top 5 for most of the late 90s. Com was an absolute beast of an MC. Ironic he was beefin with Ice Cube, because I got him, Cube, and Prodigy as the 3 biggest fall offs in hip-hop history. 3 GOATS who just fell off a damn cliff. But Com was strange becsuse he never lost his skill, his music just became straight garbage. ONE Day was the last Common album I felt all the way through and I haven't really given him the time of day in almost a quarter century now.

 

[New Jeruzalem Journalist]

Damn Com. What happened? Where was this kinda flavor for the past 2 plus decades???

 

[I love Latina women]

Damn Com. What happened? Where was this kinda flavor for the past 2 plus decades???

Yeah, see when you listen to this and then his latest album, there’s a huge difference

Prime Common was one for the nicest emcees

 

[Tommy Gibbs]

I can't be mad at this. Where is the Straighten It Out type stuff? The tracks were low energy, so Common was low energy.

cmon man, you know goddamn well Pete rock can't do shyt like that in 2024 . Back then producers had basically a blank check with samples. They were clearing some stuff, but not everything. And even then it was only a couple thousand to clear something. Straighten it out had 4 samples in it. Today they are STRICT about clearing samples and since hip hop is global, everyone wants their piece of the pie. You must pay the publishing owner(song writers) AND the copyright holders (labels) PER SAMPLE. And that shyt aint cheap. It would cost damn near $250-300k to make a song like "straiten it out" in 2024. And that's just 4 samples. How much do you think it would cost to make a Bomb Squad type beat in 2024 with 8-10 samples? That's why we got so much of this shytty, 2 finger melody, trap music because sampling is too goddamn costly.

 

[TripleAgent]

This X 1000!!

I don't ever hear anyone big up One Day It'll All Make Sense. That's the album that had him in my top 5 for most of the late 90s. Com was an absolute beast of an MC. Ironic he was beefin with Ice Cube, because I got him, Cube, and Prodigy as the 3 biggest fall offs in hip-hop history. 3 GOATS who just fell off a damn cliff. But Com was strange becsuse he never lost his skill, his music just became straight garbage. ONE Day was the last Common album I felt all the way through and I haven't really given him the time of day in almost a quarter century now.

I've been telling people that's his best album since SOHH days. Everyone is stuck on Be and Resurrection. ODIAMS had his best MCing and sharp rhymes before he got PC.

cmon man, you know goddamn well Pete rock can't do shyt like that in 2024 . Back then producers had basically a blank check with samples. They were clearing some stuff, but not everything. And even then it was only a couple thousand to clear something. Straighten it out had 4 samples in it. Today they are STRICT about clearing samples and since hip hop is global, everyone wants their piece of the pie. You must pay the publishing owner(song writers) AND the copyright holders (labels) PER SAMPLE. And that shyt aint cheap. It would cost damn near $250-300k to make a song like "straiten it out" in 2024. And that's just 4 samples. How much do you think it would cost to make a Bomb Squad type beat in 2024 with 8-10 samples? That's why we got so much of this shytty, 2 finger melody, trap music because sampling is too goddamn costly.

That new album is all samples. Pete never stopped. If he can't get around not sampling as many times per record, that's on him.

 

[Tommy Gibbs]

I've been telling people that's his best album since SOHH days. Everyone is stuck on Be and Resurrection. ODIAMS had his best MCing and sharp rhymes before he got PC.

That new album is all samples. Pete never stopped. If he can't get around not sampling as many times per record, that's on him.

It’s all samples but not 3 or 4 per song.

 

[TEH]

I only liked a couple songs on it. Common is past his prime. Some rappers can keep it going even in middle age others can’t for sure.

 

[EndDomination]

Music isn’t really a priority for him

He’s been eating off Hollywood.



Blame Erykah Badu for neutering Common and Kanye to a point. His music became a little too eclectic after that(Electric Circus, Universal Mind Control, Finding Forever,).

I knew something was wrong when he started wearing crochet pants years ago. Since then, Common has become the safest rapper out.


He’s the Roland Martin of rap now. I haven’t looked at Common the same since he said that crap about extending our hands to cacs to stop racism.

I wouldn't call him the safest rapper out. But he's gotten older -this just generally happens with time.

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

Neo-Soul is a genre of music, not an ideology or lifestyle. It wasn't about being a scumbag or not being a scumbag, it was a collective sonic movement. I also wouldn't call Jaguar Wright or Jill Scott neo-soul - and Talib Kweli, Mos Def, and Andre 3000 certainly aren't singers - nor would I consider them backpack rappers - especially not Andre 3000, one of the best selling rappers of all time

The point was the music, not their personalities.

Questlove is also a drummer breh and Jay Electronica is a Five Percenter/FOI signed to Roc Nation

 

[EndDomination]

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.

I don't think any of y'all have actually listened to any neo-soul

The albums were about love, sex and relationships - with a handful of tracks about family, living life being Black, and occasionally a politically conscious song

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

Now?

It’s been bland ever since he debuted common sucks

I got like 6-7 common songs in my library and a few off that joint with Pete rock that dropped this year

33 years in and several albums I got 7 songs max

With that said “The Light” was a great song

 

[Walt]

He has made the epitome of cornball brother music for many many years. Weirdest thing in the world is to see younger nikkas and outsiders embrace the very lamest iterations of him as "excellence." Will never forget his embarrassing NBA All Star introductions - friends who have been deep into hip hop forever were texting me about how wack and tragic Common had become; dorks online were pretending he was doing phenomal freestyling. It's plain bizarre.

 

[TripleAgent]

It’s all samples but not 3 or 4 per song.

That's on Pete. He's out here talking cash shyt, figure it out.

 

[tremonthustler1]

He has made the epitome of cornball brother music for many many years. Weirdest thing in the world is to see younger nikkas and outsiders embrace the very lamest iterations of him as "excellence." Will never forget his embarrassing NBA All Star introductions - friends who have been deep into hip hop forever were texting me about how wack and tragic Common had become; dorks online were pretending he was doing phenomal freestyling. It's plain bizarre.

I go to Rachel's Place and ordered me a malt
I see you on the corner, there goes my brother Walt!

The Common/Karriem Riggins era, it's not that it's bad but the people who go crazy over the last 5-8 years of Common also probably watch PBS on the weekend, the type to attend an art gallery on Superbowl Sunday.

 

[Walt]

I go to Rachel's Place and ordered me a malt
I see you on the corner, there goes my brother Walt!

The Common/Karriem Riggins era, it's not that it's bad but the people who go crazy over the last 5-8 years of Common also probably watch PBS on the weekend, the type to attend an art gallery on Superbowl Sunday.

HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA

Truly the lowest level of rapping, wrapped in an empty Black Excellence fortune cookie shell



This is the day women took over/no longer over your shoulder do you have to look over/imagine, war is now over/mothers get medals for being courageous soldiers/on dollars, it's Michelle Obama, Oprah and Rosa




Ladies get their hair done, and men, we notice/you get high grade Indian weaves, at the lowest



Body is a temple, men don't pray/Mother Earth's arms around you sayin' it's okay/toilet seats down, that's a no-brainer/monuments in Washington of Fanny Lou Hamer



This dude is a just flat out Hallmark Card dork ass sellout who sprinkles in an occasional video of himself breakdancing or freestyling to trade on bonafides and justify his c00nery