Common - Black America Again (Discussion Thread)

[FlyRy]

On 3rd Listen this is top 5 this year. Maybe top 3

 

[Maude]

Lil Yachty shot

 

[tuckgod]

 

[tuckgod]

We still on DC4

Common

 

[Patrick Kane]

Finding Forever is my shyt that's why. I don't have it above Be though. Forever Begins is one of the most beautiful outros I've ever heard and his pops was dropping so many gems

For me it goes

Be
Finding Forever
Black America Again
Ressurection
One Day It'll All Make Sense
Like Water For Chocolate
The Dreamer/The Believer
Nobody's Smiling
Electric Circus
Can I Borrow A Dollar


And I like to pretend UMC never happened


Black America Again is such a dope album as a body of work that I can forgive Love Star, which might be the worst Common love song ever, which is surprising as I often site Common as the best "romance MC" of all time when it comes to penning the love joints.

Wow, this album that good? Common was on some bullshyt wit the last two joints but I'll definitely check this out tonight

 

[mobbinfms]

Com not fukking around on this album
I'm halfway through and liking what I'm hearing so far

 

[Abstract83]

I didn't like Commons last album. Is this worth checking for? Off tracklist alone it looks like one of those Common classics in the making. Low key Common has a amazing catalog aside from UMC and Nobody Smiling.

 

[Deltron]

I didn't like Commons last album. Is this worth checking for? Off tracklist alone it looks like one of those Common classics in the making. Low key Common has a amazing catalog aside from UMC and his last album.

Yes. Check it. Com did his fukking thing on here.

Riggins laced him pretty nicely as well. Complemented Com well. Nice cohesive project overall. Lyrically, thematically.

 

[Abstract83]

Yes. Check it. Com did his fukking thing on here.

Riggins laced him pretty nicely as well. Complemented Com well. Nice cohesive project overall. Lyrically, thematically.

Ima check it out today. Props breh

 

[DontEemTry]

This nikka rhyming at an extremely high technical level with schemes inside of schemes and intricate word play that's some of the best he's ever spit.

The album is a bit preachy though, but I kinda fukks with it. I really like "unfamiliar"

 

[Deltron]

I really like "unfamiliar"

probably my favorite joint on the album.

 

[Inspect Her Deck]

This album got me listening to Com's discog back to front again

If he ain't the GOAT....

 

[NoHalfWay]

This shyt is better than TPAB

TPAB with a better rapper

 

[Black Lightning]

Hot damn, black America again
Think of Sandra Bland as I'm staring in the wind
The color of my skin, they comparing it to sin
The darker it gets, the less fairer it has been
The hate the hate made, I inherited from them
But I ain't gon' point the finger, we got annointed singers
Like Nina, Marvin, Billie, Stevie
Need to hear them songs sometimes to believe me
Who freed me: Lincoln or Cadillac?
Drinking or battle raps or is it Godspeed that we travel at?
Endangered in our own habitat
The guns and dope man y'all can have it back
As a matter of fact, we them lab rats
You build the projects for, now you want your hood back
I guess if you could rap you would express it too
That PTSD, we need professionals
You know what pressure do, it make the pipes bust
From schools to prison y'all, they tryna pipe us
Tell your political parties invite us
Instead of making voting laws to spite us
You know, you know we from a family of fighters
Fought in your wars and our wars
You put a nikka in Star Wars, maybe you need two
And then, maybe then we'll believe you
See black people in the future
We wasn't shipped here to rob and shoot ya
We hold these truths to be self evident
All men and women are created equal, including black Americans

 

[blac_da_rappa]

His best album since Be