Common's Be is not a good album

[Gritsngravy]

You know common probably has one of the more interesting catalogues in rap

 

[CrimsonTider]

Rap fans were listening to Common before Be. I don't understand the statement. Even with Electric Circus, it got panned because it wasn't what rap fans wanted to hear from Common where Be was a return to form. Personally, Electric Circus was the only logical way to follow up an album like Like Water For Chocolate. Kanye isn't what got rap fans listening to Common. This was Common back to form over some Kanye production. The Kanye association gave Common some mainstream looks that he didn't have before. Still, even before Kanye, Common was in commercials (Sprite and Coca- Cola). His biggest album, and it possibly still is his biggest was Like Water For Chocolate and that had no Kanye production. "The Light" is Common's biggest song and there's Erykah's "Love of My Life". There's also Common's own "Come Close" (one of my favorite Common songs).

Never heard of anyone listening to Common before B

 

[Gritsngravy]

Never heard of anyone listening to Common before B

the light was getting play on the radio, I used to love her is one of the top hip hop songs of all time

 

[CrimsonTider]

the light was getting play on the radio, I used to love her is one of the top hip hop songs of all time

Getting play on the radio downs mean people were purposely listening to common

I used to love her is fake deep

 

[Gritsngravy]

Getting play on the radio downs mean people were purposely listening to common

I used to love her is fake deep

You said people wasn’t listening to common

They seem like they was listening

 

[DontEemTry]

I liked it, Common can come off a bit preachy and forced but when it works it works.

"The Corner" is emceeing at it's highest

 

[melraH]

 

[JustCKing]

Never heard of anyone listening to Common before B

These songs got play breh:

 

[CrimsonTider]

These songs got play breh:

Love of my life did because of Baduh

 

[JustCKing]

Love of my life did because of Baduh

"The Light" is bigger than "Love of My Life". All of these songs were bigger than any song off Be. Fact.

 

[CP3.]

Resurrection better than Be?

Hell yes.

No ID's production on that album shyts all over Kanye's on Be.

The actual rhyming schemes and storytelling on the album are much better too.

The most played song on Be on Spotify is GO! which sums it all up for me. It's an album for casuals who just wanna listen to a funky little beat with a dude saying "goooo" over and over again. No real hip hop head is gonna choose Be over Resurrection and if they are they ain't been listening properly.

 

[CP3.]

Pure hip hop Up there with Illmatic and Liquid Swords

 

[Noriega]

Pure hip hop Up there with Illmatic and Liquid Swords

I love Resurrection but outside of I Used to Love Her…Resurrection don’t have a Faithful,Love Is, The Corner, Testify, They Say.

Go is probably my least favorite track on Be

 

[JulesMusic719]

What a stupid fukking thread, I see why your rep is -1,320...


Wait let me make that -1,330 for you

How can someone get a rep like this now I wanna see what other threads he creates

 

[CP3.]

I love Resurrection but outside of I Used to Love Her…Resurrection don’t have a Faithful,Love Is, The Corner, Testify, They Say.

Go is probably my least favorite track on Be

Fair breh

Love Is, is my favourite on Be, so fukking good