New Common LP "Be" DL now folls!
Big_Chan
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Just downloaded the new Common LP "Be" I'm only a few songs into it and so far it is pretty dope! Get online and get your Download on folls! Kanye & Jay Dee got that heat, I'm sure the rest of the LP will be that hit.... Oh snap, there is even cuttin' & scratchin'. Word. 
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"Ghetto Child" from the Jamalca LP. Kanye is a fool. This joint is......
FIRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks, Chan... I was trying to recall where that sample came from. I knew it was something familiar, just couldn't place it.
I thought that was cool, same summer that DJ Quick caught a beatdown by a bunch of Denver crips. I guess fivepoints was reprezentin' for their hood. Quick threw a 40 into the crowd of his show cause everybody was throwin' up C's. Caught a lawsuit.
Damn!? I recognized a sample right away and Phill the Soulman "just couldn't place it?" I must be turning into a real record nerd. I remember back when I used to call you up and have you identify samples and records for me. Next thing you know, I'll be on the internet while I'm at work on a record website discussing
music with other record nerds.
Yeah... I just don't give a shit about any of that shit anymore! I used to listen to my Ahmad Jamal (and similar) records all the time. Now all I listen to is lite rock from the 70's and a lot of Slim Thug and Chamillionare. The internet got me goin' nuts!
"Word Phil, I'm glad you ridin' for the South Big Hommie!" You need to get some ice in yo grill and roll around philly in a lac sittin' on 84' vogues. HOLLA!
..oh, hey, I don't really know what was meant by "soft," either, I had just read the thread where people were cappin' on it, so I wanted to know as someone who was feelin' it, if you thought it was "soft" too, but good anyways...I'll just have to check it myself...and form my own opinion...yikes!
---- 35-year-old white dude from Boston
*buy*. Get your *buy* on.
Oh yeah, duh.
Haven't heard anything else yet...
1) The album opens well with "Be" then "The Corner" but then plummets on four songs that I find more or less unlistenable - not because they're gratingly wack, but there's just nothing there to hold interest. "Go" is like the drunk girl at the club who thinks she's hot...but isn't. "Faithful" is back to Common's head-wrap rap days - it seriously sounds like it could have been left off of "Like Water For Chocolate." "Testify" is just a plainly terrible narrative song. I don't know why Common keeps insisting on recording these - he's not Slick Rick or Nas. I think, at his best, he can be evocative in his lyricism but that doens't equate to being able to tell a story effectively. This sounded like a bad "Law and Order" episode. "Love Is" belongs in the same bin as "Faithful."
"Chi City" is marginally better but I really would have expected something a whole lot hotter than what Kanye cooked up.
The album closes well though not enough to rescue "Be" overall. I always liked "The Food" - I wish more of the album was like this. I really liked "Real People" and "They Say" - there's something about Common's free-flowing verses here (enjambment, holla!) that carry a conviction to them - like Common knows he's in the groove and he's letting you know that he knows. He does the same thing with "It's Your World" but seriously, just turn it off after his verses end and before Pops gets his turn. I mean, it's cool that Com big ups his dad on every album but if you were bored of the Last Poets on "The Corner," this will be like torture.
Overall, the album just never comes together which is a bad sign considering it's only 11 songs long. Nothing coheres right - the sequencing (at least in the version I've heard) is poor, more than a couple of songs sound like they could have benefited from closer refining - or just removal altogether. And most of all, I don't feel like Common is any hungrier on this album than he was on his last two. Mid-career, better rappers have come with some fucking ILL shit to just say, "hey, quit fucking sleeping on me just because I'm not the new kid on the block." Look at Jay-Z's "Vol 3" or KRS-One's "Return of the Boom Bap" or Nas "God's Son."
"Be" just sounds too...comfortable. You know? Oh snap, does that mean it's soft?
The tough part is that I still have to write a cover story on dude. And personally, I like Common as an artist, I like what he's about. I just wish he'd come back with something to fuck people's heads up.
Headwraps-n-incense?
Nag Champa, bitches.
but prefuse is punk he sold his shit to footlocker..
I'm still waiting for Electric Circus to surface in the dollar bins though, no chance in hell I'm paying more than 2$ for.