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Fukk your corny debates
How do you feel about how his career panned out? I think from about his 4th album on, it's been pretty disappointing for someone of his talent and such a high quality early body of work.
I thought Nas was the best back in the 90's, but Common was low key my favorite rapper. He was the wittiest rapper and had ridiculous wordplay. He was very regular and relatable during the Pac/Biggie/Wu era when being a larger than life anti-hero was the thing, and he made good music about just being himself. He could drop jewels of wisdom interspersed between Too $hort-level vulgar sex rhymes. The first 3 albums were great and Resurrection is a classic and one of the GOAT hip-hop albums imo.
One Day It Will All Make Sense... was the last album prime vintage Common album. I know a lot of people like Like Water For Chocolate but I thought that shyt was pretty weak. Electric Circus was a very experimental album. Experiments often fail and that one did.
He came back strong with Be. He needed Kanye to help bring him back, but it was a really good album and he reinvented himself a bit. Finding Forever was good too.
He was back. Then he dropped that Universal Mind Control garbage. The shyt was
and what made it worse is that he "sold out" on it and it wasn't even necessary. He was making quality music that was selling decent and he making Hollywood money by then. And he makes an album over throwaway Neptunes beats? fukk outta here. Been looking at him funny since then.
The next 3 albums were meh. They weren't wack, but they weren't particularly good either. He hasn't made a dope album in going on 10 years honestly.
He's still one of the GOATs to me because his peak was strong and sustained. But I can't ignore that out of 11 albums, I only want to listen to 5 of them. He's moved down my all time list in the past 8 years or so.
I thought Nas was the best back in the 90's, but Common was low key my favorite rapper. He was the wittiest rapper and had ridiculous wordplay. He was very regular and relatable during the Pac/Biggie/Wu era when being a larger than life anti-hero was the thing, and he made good music about just being himself. He could drop jewels of wisdom interspersed between Too $hort-level vulgar sex rhymes. The first 3 albums were great and Resurrection is a classic and one of the GOAT hip-hop albums imo.
One Day It Will All Make Sense... was the last album prime vintage Common album. I know a lot of people like Like Water For Chocolate but I thought that shyt was pretty weak. Electric Circus was a very experimental album. Experiments often fail and that one did.
He came back strong with Be. He needed Kanye to help bring him back, but it was a really good album and he reinvented himself a bit. Finding Forever was good too.
He was back. Then he dropped that Universal Mind Control garbage. The shyt was
and what made it worse is that he "sold out" on it and it wasn't even necessary. He was making quality music that was selling decent and he making Hollywood money by then. And he makes an album over throwaway Neptunes beats? fukk outta here. Been looking at him funny since then.The next 3 albums were meh. They weren't wack, but they weren't particularly good either. He hasn't made a dope album in going on 10 years honestly.
He's still one of the GOATs to me because his peak was strong and sustained. But I can't ignore that out of 11 albums, I only want to listen to 5 of them. He's moved down my all time list in the past 8 years or so.
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that wanna make me listen to that album.