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Common: Finding Forever

mannybolonemannybolone Los Angeles, CA 15,025 Posts
edited June 2007 in Strut Central
I heard this album. Liked it. Quite a bit. Wasn't a huge fan of "Be". Thought "Finding Forever" was stronger.Then I see this:And I'm...I'm...speechless. This makes the Lupe Fiasco cover look like "Straight Outta Compton."By the way, Rick James' ghost called......he wants his coif back.
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  • CinisterCeeCinisterCee 863 Posts

    Then I see this:



    This makes the Lupe Fiasco cover look like "Straight Outta Compton."

    haha was it this --> http://www.complex.com/blogs/?p=4420

    i think it's a silk hoodie
  • SoulOnIceSoulOnIce 13,027 Posts
    this was already the best thread of the day
  • CinisterCeeCinisterCee 863 Posts
    this was already the best thread of the day

    AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA


    Common ripped off Yung Phoc's latest mixtape cover???
    IMG SRC=http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/7127/kmcovertr6.jpg>
    Treacherous.
  • faux_rillzfaux_rillz 14,343 Posts

    This makes the Lupe Fiasco cover look like "Straight Outta Compton."

    Now, now, let's not get carried away--I know the Common cover is what's new and hot, but the Lupe Fiasco joint is an all-time contender.
  • keithvanhornkeithvanhorn 3,855 Posts
    link for the album?


  • HarveyCanalHarveyCanal "a distraction from my main thesis." 13,234 Posts
    I love clowning Common, but I actually liked Be.
  • mannybolonemannybolone Los Angeles, CA 15,025 Posts
    link for the album?



    I didn't download it. I sat in the office with Common's A&R - only way I could listen to it in time to write a review. I'm a little surprised this album cover met with the A&R's approval.
  • tonyphronetonyphrone 1,500 Posts
    I love clowning Common, but I actually liked Be.


    better than most hip-hop that came out that year. then again that isn't saying much...
  • deejdeej 5,125 Posts
    dude's gotten the oprah approval, he is getting ready to move some serious units on this one

    the only song i still listen to off Be is the dilla track
  • constantrepsconstantreps 8 Posts
    Man, it's funny how I went from a "Common's on it??? Hell yeah, I'll buy it" type of fan to a "Common's on it??? Let me hear it first" and didn't really realize it. On the same note, I've kind of gone that opposite route for Kardinal Offishall and Dave Ghetto. Don't ask me why, I can't explain.
  • 33thirdcom33thirdcom 2,049 Posts
    Smooth Rap... yay.


    George Benson = Common ?
  • tonyphronetonyphrone 1,500 Posts
    Smooth Rap... yay.


    George Benson = Common ?

    I hear ya - but somehow i'm not mad at that.
  • 33thirdcom33thirdcom 2,049 Posts
    Smooth Rap... yay.


    George Benson = Common ?

    I hear ya - but somehow i'm not mad at that.

    you sound old
  • ZEN2ZEN2 1,540 Posts
    I'm a little surprised this album cover met with the A&R's approval.

    How so?
  • mannybolonemannybolone Los Angeles, CA 15,025 Posts
    I'm a little surprised this album cover met with the A&R's approval.

    How so?

    Uh, it's really ugly?

    "Be" was simple.

    "Electric Circus" was eclectic but at least ambitious.

    "Finding Forever"? A trainwreck of bad ideas.
  • 33thirdcom33thirdcom 2,049 Posts
    I'm a little surprised this album cover met with the A&R's approval.

    How so?

    Uh, it's really ugly?

    "Be" was simple.

    "Electric Circus" was eclectic but at least ambitious.

    "Finding Forever"? A trainwreck of bad ideas.

    yes this is by far one of the worst covers I have ever seen. Up there with LadyBug's solo cover.

    This shit makes the No Limit covers look amazing.
  • mannybolonemannybolone Los Angeles, CA 15,025 Posts

    yes this is by far one of the worst covers I have ever seen. Up there with LadyBug's solo cover.

    Let's no get crazy now.

    That's one some whole NOTHER level of unbelieavable badness.
  • faux_rillzfaux_rillz 14,343 Posts

    "Electric Circus" was eclectic but at least ambitious.

    The cover was the only good thing about that album... I thought the Sergeant Pepper's/Midnight Marauders/Maze homage was pretty clever.
  • ZEN2ZEN2 1,540 Posts
    I'm a little surprised this album cover met with the A&R's approval.

    How so?

    Uh, it's really ugly?

    "Be" was simple.

    "Electric Circus" was eclectic but at least ambitious.

    "Finding Forever"? A trainwreck of bad ideas.





    I've seen worse, but he is looking a bit on there..
  • batmonbatmon 27,574 Posts


    Seventh Album?

  • rootlesscosmorootlesscosmo 12,848 Posts

    This shit makes the No Limit covers look amazing.

    dude, the No Limit covers were amazing.

    course...this certainly represents the pinnacle of the genre:

  • batmonbatmon 27,574 Posts

    This shit makes the No Limit covers look amazing.

    dude, the No Limit covers were amazing.

    course...this certainly represents the pinnacle of the genre:


  • mannybolonemannybolone Los Angeles, CA 15,025 Posts
    Why there isn't a picture book of JUST No Limit covers is an oversight that MUST be corrected, post-haste.

    Was the one with the guy surfing his impala a No Limit cover?
  • faux_rillzfaux_rillz 14,343 Posts
    Why there isn't a picture book of JUST No Limit covers is an oversight that MUST be corrected, post-haste.

    Was the one with the guy surfing his impala a No Limit cover?

    No

    And you guys are mistakenly equating No Limit with the work of Pen-n-Pixel; No Limit may have been P-n-P's most visible clients, but they were by no means the most bizarre or flamboyant ones.
  • deejdeej 5,125 Posts
  • mannybolonemannybolone Los Angeles, CA 15,025 Posts
    Why there isn't a picture book of JUST No Limit covers is an oversight that MUST be corrected, post-haste.

    Was the one with the guy surfing his impala a No Limit cover?

    No

    And you guys are mistakenly equating No Limit with the work of Pen-n-Pixel; No Limit may have been P-n-P's most visible clients, but they were by no means the most bizarre or flamboyant ones.

    Sorry, I meant to say "Pen N Pixel" not "No Limit" but you have to admit - the two did go together like PB&J for many years.

    But yeah, NL doesn't hold the patent on the greatest PNP covers of all time.

    But seriously, who's got that impala surfin' cover?
  • tonyphronetonyphrone 1,500 Posts
    Smooth Rap... yay.


    George Benson = Common ?

    I hear ya - but somehow i'm not mad at that.

    you sound old

    I am
  • faux_rillzfaux_rillz 14,343 Posts
    Smooth Rap... yay.


    George Benson = Common ?

    I hear ya - but somehow i'm not mad at that.

    you sound old

    I am

    "I Used to Love Her" =
  • HarveyCanalHarveyCanal "a distraction from my main thesis." 13,234 Posts


    But seriously, who's got that impala surfin' cover?

    You're not thinking of this by any chance?

  • 33thirdcom33thirdcom 2,049 Posts

    yes this is by far one of the worst covers I have ever seen. Up there with LadyBug's solo cover.

    Let's no get crazy now.

    That's one some whole NOTHER level of unbelieavable badness.

    call me crazy... That cover actually makes me NOT want to hear this album.

    i know he could redeem himself but seriously after seeing that cover, that is going to be a pretty hard thing to do.
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