Great combination. They were great for each other in different ways. Be was a great album and a great companion piece of more basic Kanye beats that dropped right around the same time he had Jon Brion adding so much stuff to his beats for Late Registration. Plus the mix of just Kanye and Dilla producing Common's "comeback" album was great. I never liked Finding Forever quite as much as I liked Be, but there are a lot of classic Kanye/Common joints on there too.
Figured I'd post the 3 versions of The Food: the live version (that was on the album), the sudio version (with an extra verse), and the instrumental of the studio version.