Common - Black America Again (Discussion Thread)
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ComputersPutin
All Star
Best album since Like Water For Chocolate. I enjoyed his albums since LWFC but when it comes to bars these are his best since LWFC.
Bald Head Ba$tard
All Star
Extremely good album. Nobody's Smiling was his weakest effort. This might end up being in his top 5 of best albums. No joke. He came with it like THAT this time. This is more in that LWFC lane. That Neo-Soul kind of Com. With that being said, this is his absolute strongest work since that album.
Riggins def brought out the best in Common for this album.
Gad they decided to make an album over an EP
Gad they decided to make an album over an EP
Thatrogueassdiaz
We're on the blood path now
Looks like i was wrong
erker
All Star
You never heard Universal Mind Control?
Pleasantly surprised with this. Not sure if it's better than FF, might be more focused regardless.
Thematically it feels like a sequel to LWFC
Thematically it feels like a sequel to LWFC
This album is beautiful 
g-ice
aka #DiamondNightmare
Can't stop listening to this shyt!
The instrumentals, the rhymes, the vocals from the guest features (predominantly Bilal) is
If you want to make a classic just put Bilal on your album brehs
The instrumentals, the rhymes, the vocals from the guest features (predominantly Bilal) is
If you want to make a classic just put Bilal on your album brehs
((ReFleXioN)) EteRNaL
Hussle & Motivate
I arrived on the planet, never took the Southside for granted
Smoke a little, keep a high standard
The Roots are my nikkas so I gotta fly bandwith
Son of the sit-ins, you know who I stand with
Dude said I was a hero, I ain't nothing but a sandwich
A gluten-free one at that, close my eyes see my raps
My bio is feedback from what we need rap
On some Marshawn Lynch, let me run it back
And come with that new black spiritual
Every rap's a miracle, condition now critical
Game lack lyrical, we need black generals
Holy war, tap into you like Savion
But I'm a orator, the corduroy boy
Came the door-to-door name down the corridor of fame
I walk like an Egyptian on a mission to listen to conditions
Envision a vision of what we wishing
I've been commissioned to deprison the prism of your mind
Spit the wisdom of the one devine
Close encounter of the wonder kind, front a line
Shift the paradigm with a pair of rhymes
Style Bonnie Caylor, in the sweep with Caroline
Getting dressed up under pressure, Alabama shakes on Incense rising from the dresser, child of a fresher god
Influenced by the life of the former, Joanne Chesimard
Assata Shakur, I gotta do more
The light-skinned spook who got in the door
I gotta hit four, same thing Cassius Clay uses pottery for
I'm on a world tour with Muhammad the prophet, my man
And where we land the pyramids stand
He blacked the fukk out on that verse
what's crazy is the first verse might have even been more raw. i'm legit shocked how dude completely recaptured his flow. he didn't miss one fukkin beat. it's been years since I could legit say common blacked the fukk out on a track. and this isn't situation where an old great drops some half decent shyt and dudes are overhyping it. common actually turned back the hands of time and channeled his prime self. it just shows it's all about the time put in. dude's been acting and dealing with all types of other business ventures. he probably doesn't have the time to write rhymes and keep his flow on point like he used to. you can tell he really got focused for this one. showed the world why he's a top 3 lyricist of all time(common and nas the goats). this shyt got me feeling some type of way. I swear if tribe drops some greatness, I might just shed a tear
but here's the first verse of pyramids
A nikka told me he only rhyme for 19-year-olds
nikka, you should rhyme wherever the spirit goes
Here it goes, lyrical miracles
These are pyramids from the imperial
In theory, though, low end scenario
It's sound boy burial drove me to classic material
Aerial nights blew my mind out of stereotypes
For ethereal heights, I write like Pritchard
Invisible man, pictured below with the hieroglyphicable
Prolifical flow, on the walls where the mystics of Kemet would go
Supreme wisdom in my system is the kick in the door
I don't rhyme for the sake of riddlin' though
This is a ritual for those depicted as low
Now I passed life like I've been here before
The reincarnation of It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold
Us Back, coldest raps
For me the globe is like a culdesac
Around the world in a day, find forever and I stay
I'm from the weather where they spray
There's gotta be a better way, people dying everyday
Wonder what would heaven say? Devils need to get away
From Chevrolet to Escalade, from evergreen to the everglades
I kneel where the rebels pray
Seen fifty gray, but they need better shades
nikkas rhymin' like their whole style in retrograde
The escapade I'm on is like when the sun, moon and stars was born
It's hard to explain how these pyramids formed
