common (sense)


Nope. Not since Electric Circus. That was 2003, I think. But he's back in the studio working on his new album with lots of help from Kanye West.

But it don't matter........he'll never write a song that tops "I Used to Lover H.E.R."
 
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LS Syndicate said:
Nope. Not since Electric Circus. That was 2003, I think. But he's back in the studio working on his new album with lots of help from Kanye West.

But it don't matter........he'll never write a song that tops "I Used to Lover H.E.R."

I beg to differ. Commercially he may not but lyrically there have been some that has surpassed. That was not the best song on "Ressurection".
 
northern tiger said:
I beg to differ. Commercially he may not but lyrically there have been some that has surpassed. That was not the best song on "Ressurection".

It was a breakthrough song for him, no doubt, but I wouldn't say it was a commercial success. If you didn't watch Rap City, you never would have heard of it (in Jackson, that is).

I haven't listened to the album in over 5 years, but I remember H.E.R. having the best beat. And it was a very creative and effective allegory.......about four years ahead of it's time. Classic!!


~digging thru CD's looking for "Ressurection" and/ or "One Day It'll All Make Sense" singing,~

"Yes-yes, yall, and ya don't stop!"
 
I met this girl, when I was ten years old
And what I loved most she had so much soul
She was old school, when I was just a shorty
Never knew throughout my life she would be there for me
on the regular, not a church girl she was secular
Not about the money, no studs was mic checkin her
But I respected her, she hit me in the heart
A few New York ni**az, had did her in the park
But she was there for me, and I was there for her
Pull out a chair for her, turn on the air for her
and just cool out, cool out and listen to her
Sittin on a bone, wishin that I could do her
Eventually if it was meant to be, then it would be
because we related, physically and mentally
And she was fun then, I'd be geeked when she'd come around
Slim was fresh yo, when she was underground
Original, pure untampered and down sister
Boy I tell ya, I miss her

Verse Two:

Now periodically I would see
ol girl at the clubs, and at the house parties
She didn't have a body but she started gettin thick quick
DId a couple of videos and became afrocentric
Out goes the weave, in goes the braids beads medallions
She was on that tip about, stoppin the violence
About my people she was teachin me
By not preachin to me but speakin to me
in a method that was leisurely, so easily I approached
She dug my rap, that's how we got close
But then she broke to the West coast, and that was cool
Cause around the same time, I went away to school
And I'm a man of expandin', so why should I stand in her way
She probably get her money in L.A.
And she did stud, she got big pub but what was foul
She said that the pro-black, was goin out of style
She said, afrocentricity, was of the past
So she got into R&B hip-house bass and jazz
Now black music is black music and it's all good
I wasn't salty, she was with the boys in the hood
Cause that was good for her, she was becomin well rounded
I thought it was dope how she was on that freestyle s**t
Just havin fun, not worried about anyone
And you could tell, by how her ti**ies hung

Verse Three:

I might've failed to mention that this chick was creative
But once the man got you well he altered her native
Told her if she got an image and a gimmick
that she could make money, and she did it like a dummy
Now I see her in commercials, she's universal
She used to only swing it with the inner-city circle
Now she be in the burbs lickin rock and dressin hip
And on some dumb s**t, when she comes to the city
Talkin about poppin glocks servin rocks and hittin switches
Now she's a gangsta rollin with gangsta b*tches
Always smokin blunts and gettin drunk
Tellin me sad stories, now she only f***s with the funk
Stressin how hardcore and real she is
She was really the realest, before she got into showbiz
I did her, not just to say that I did it
But I'm committed, but so many ni&&az hit it
That she's just not the same lettin all these groupies do her
I see ni&&az slammin her, and takin her to the sewer
But I'ma take her back hopin that the s**t stop
Cause who I'm talkin bout y'all is hip-hop
 
man,,,, don't yall get me started. a HUGE Common fan here. i could flood yall with greatest Common (Sense) hits. the thing is, almost all tracks are so classic hh.

now i'm from the south, but i have to say the the southern "dirty south" brand of hh can't even come close to the early-mid 90s hh. there are a few exceptions like "down for my Ns" but that's only because that is such a classic HBCU band cut.
 
Bartram said:
now i'm from the south, but i have to say the the southern "dirty south" brand of hh can't even come close to the early-mid 90s hh. there are a few exceptions like "down for my Ns" but that's only because that is such a classic HBCU band cut.

I hate to say it, but thats the coldest "southern" beat ever.
 
This right here just summed up the experience at the crib in the eighties. One thing about Common that people don't realize is that he is "House" before Hip-Hop (They are to different cultures). Thats what impresses me about him the most. He slips the house culture in so smoove in don't make no sense.

Artist: Common Sense
Album: Resurrection
Song: Nuthin' to Do

[Intro]
Check it on the one, yo Com is gonna come {*repeat 3X*}
And check it out, ha

[Verse 1]
My raps do laps around tracks and adapt
to any environment.. I'm the comma comma chamelion
I use to pop a wheelie on my blue and gray stingray, it had mags
That was when *****es had gucci tags
And wasn't rockin' Starters, looking harder than *****s
Hoes wore clothes, that exposed they figures
8-7 stepped in the jam, next the police come
Fights there would be one, numbers I'd get at least one
We'd come to the get-together with whoever
You wouldn't know how deep we was, we all didn't sit together
Eat up all your vittles, drink your brew
and then step to the next cue, let's do it again y'all
That was when mad was tall and phat was cold
The days of Old Chicago and Fun Town
As shorties we run 'round, play strike outs till sun down
But the **** ain't as fun now, and the city's all run down
We'd troop down to Jew Town, talk a cat down on some gear
Have enough for a Polish and car fare
I stare, at what use to be better
and think about who use to cop our liquor
(Who?) Our neighborhood father figure

[Hook]
I'm out with my crew, ain't nuthin' to do but ah,
"*****s be rollin" -> ODB
Ain't nowhere to go, so I hook up with a hoe while I
"*****s be rollin" -> ODB
Gotta make a stop take a leak and get some chops cause um
"*****s be rollin" -> ODB
We gonna hit the streets for some brew and some eats cause um
"*****s be rollin" -> ODB

[Verse 2]
I got more rhymes than The Manor got folks (Gangster Diciples)
Had style since I went to McDowell, wearin' boats
And penny loafers though I had the nickel in mines
We use to hoop in my yard but now I dribble the rhyme
It's like rain drops couldn't make our game stop
Skeeter would hit from the SAME spot
'til Marlon tore my **** down, get down,
Put your body in motion only the strong survive
But on the 6 or the 5
The live-est sets used to be, at the Raquet
Ball Club with music by, Andre Hatchet
Or either a beat by Pharris at them Country Club parties
We'd be hot as hell and House studs would yell "AH-IGHT, NOW RON-NIEEEE!"
Always I would go there, hip hop clubs were so rare
I like the music (House Music) anyways and it was always hoes there
Whitney Young (MY HIGH SCHOOL) and Kenwood was said to have the best chicks
But mostly Hyde Park and "V" (CVS Juwan Howard's H.S.) hoes is who I messed with
The best **** was troopin' to the loop in your precisions
Cut class to get ass, but still go to division (I remember that)
Over Yamela's crib while his old girl was at work
Bust a spoolie on the spread, but still have some on your shirt

[Hook]

[Verse 3]
I tuned into BMX (radio station), and taped Farley on the tonemaster
Took the 6 instead of the 28 to get home faster
Then HPK (radio station) was the only station that would **** with rap
You was on The Shore by yourself cats'd (would) say "Up your hat."
What you could you'd make of it, if you was a gump they'd take ya ****
Either fight or break for it, we'd go to the lake and get full
My drink then was Boone's and Red Bull
I remember swimming in Avalon, and peeing in the pool
I thought I was cool, with my "Members Only" and a bowl fade
Walk to Walgreens to get the Sportin' Waves pomade
And soft brush, as we got older we would start ruckus and bang fags
Go to Marshals and change tags, I snagged nuff *****s
Go to Marshall's and change tags, I snagged 'nuff *****s
In games of Off the Wall, and softball, Piggy one I would call
When I first got my three way callin', I caught marks tryin' to lie
Home of the original gangbangers, and ain't nobody shot

[Hook]

I'm Petey Weestro' from the Southside of Chicago!
 
northern tiger said:
This right here just summed up the experience at the crib in the eighties. One thing about Common that people don't realize is that he is "House" before Hip-Hop (They are to different cultures). Thats what impresses me about him the most. He slips the house culture in so smoove in don't make no sense.

well if that is the case, house RULES. i'm one of "those peoples". not suprising though. i was not a reaggea (spelling) fan until being in north carolina and being saturated with the HH-reaggea of the era. uuugh. i was all over the reaggea-HH of that era. :tup:
 
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