COMMON GON' GET HIS RAVE ON?
Young_Phonics
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I saw this inteview via Spine (I really don't like those dudes).
EWEF!DX: So, there will be a couple of club tracks in there?C: When I went on the Kanye West Glow in the Dark Tour in Europe, I was overseas and just saw people partying overseas. Seeing the music that they were partying to was just a good feeling. I was like, ???Wait, none of my songs are being played over here!??? What am I missing in my music repertoire? You never stray away from [positive] music. You always need music that???s uplifting and conscious, but you also sometimes wanna relax and party. At a party, you might not wanna hear those things at that time.
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"It was like, they liked it."
File under "white approval opens my eyes and sets me free"
I also enjoyed how Comm retails his first trip to compton and watts being in the backseat of a police escort. Umm, please kill yourself now.
asscheeks?
ah yes, Common's old school catalogue...
oops, i stared directly for about 20 seconds before reading the caption!
damn, i'm already feeling the urge to buy a drum major uniform and rap about candy....
ha that is one really complicated graemlin.
That's how the Controller gets down, m'man!
Get on his level!
"I'm here to bust common's head... and change his crochet pants"
not defending his possible rave-er-iffice future , but why would he go to Compton? He's from Chicago's South Side which has it's own fair share of brutality. I don't think a lot of people from "the hood" get to go on vactions and if they do, I'm sure they aren't making an effort to make sure to hit up other fucked up places in our great country.
Umm, well the point is you, me and especially not common do not need a mutherfucking police escort to go to compton or watts. Even the remotest implication that someone should be scared to do so is more racist than most of the shit that gets called out on this board. We should he go to Watts? See the towers, eat some food and maybe check out the community, the very same reason i went to the south side when i went to chicago. In fact, i would think that anyone who grew up listening to rap music would want to check out Compton just on the strength, the same way i always wanted to go see the south bronx in new york.
The music Com makes is most surely a product of hanging out in west hollywood when he is in LA (which i'm sure is very very often) and being the only black guy around a bunch of white people. Sounds good dude, keep up the good work.
And anyone interested in genuinely checking out the community and rapping with some dudes who have real stories and history to tell holler at me next time you are in la.
Don't be scurred.
Classic--this graemlin should be employed as frequently as possible.
Didn't he do a track with Ali G Van Helden about ten years ago?
Perhaps to network with 'the people' he so frequently pays homage to in his raps?
One, you must not know many people from the "hood" if you think they don't go on vacations just like everyone else...especially to visit family who very well might live in what you seem to be classifying as a "fucked up place".
Two, Common is the son of an NBA basketball player...so while I'm not thinking that he grew up mega-rich as would a son of a NBA basketball player today, I don't think he grew up in poverty.
Three, Compton turned over to like 85% Latino like 15 years ago.
Four, I wish Common would once and for all just take a long hike (police escorted of course) off of a short pier.
this song jams.
Someone else mentioned that above. Apparently, I was (un)fortunate enough to have missed that. Was it a house track or was it part of AVH's stab at hip-hop during that time?
I suspect the one deej can answer this question.