Common - Black America Again (Discussion Thread)

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Com got like 3 classics and a possible, plus more than a few other very good albums, and countless dope features

Name me 9 rappers with that resume

He has to be considered top 5 by any knowledgable, unbiased Hip Hop fan at this point


Common has 1 Classic. He's also become one of the most embarrassing figures in rap all time.

I'll peep this album on the strength of Karriem Riggins' brilliance but Common top 5 is straight bumperhead logic.
 

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I cannot fukking get over how amazing this is. I say this every other day. I've heard it 10 times in full already and I wanna hear it more and more.

This shyt is damn near a masterpiece. How people putting Tribe's album in the same bracket is mind-boggling.

Common entered a 2nd prime on this shyt.
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Only song that really bothers me now is Rain. Even Love Star I can cope with and I can't get over how well this album closes out. Literally the two best tracks are at the end of the album.
 

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This is sensational, top notch lyricism and very musical album. Common in my top 10.

Lyrically its what To Pimp A Butterfly should have been but Kenny was too busy talking about dikk being free and making fake Pac conversations.

De La, Tribe, and Common all delivered good albums in 2016. :wow:
 

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This is sensational, top notch lyricism and very musical album. Common in my top 10.

Lyrically its what To Pimp A Butterfly should have been but Kenny was too busy talking about dikk being free and making fake Pac conversations.

De La, Tribe, and Common all delivered good albums in 2016. :wow:

for what its worth I think TPAB is a great album but in terms of being true to its thematic ideas etc., you're right. Common made the album Kendrick tried to make.
 

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Pyramids I can't get over how he snapped on that shyt. He didn't even spit like that on Be. :damn:

I agree that the Tribe album is not touching this but of course that's a bigger moment. Just went through this again and :whew: it's fire all the way through although I could've done without the generic john legend track.

Never heard of Karriem Riggins until this but the production is perfect.
 
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