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Common - One day it'll all make sense

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T.J.:
nice review.... i'd probly give it a 4.25/5.

Black Pack:

--- Quote from: ill natural on June 11, 2003, 04:56:45 PM ---Word resurrection is his best album.

I'd rate em like
Resurrection
Like Wate for Chocolate
Can I Borrow a Dollar
One Day It'll all Make Sense
Electric Circus

--- End quote ---

ThreeSixty:
this is my least favorite common album. Can i borrow a dollar, resurrection and lwfc are dope as hell, electric circus was average and i didnt really care for one day itll all make sense

Immortal:
thanks for the review 8)

Juronimo:
Before I bought this album, I only bought tapes. This is the first cd I had ever purchased new. Before then it was all about the tapes. I had to record the cd onto a tape using my brother's cd player so I could listen to it, ha. Needless to say I couldn't count how many times I listened to this album.

1. Introspective…intro On thing I've noticed is that albums with an intro that really sets the mood of an album are albums that are at least 4.5 mics in my eyes. This intro servers its purpose in that regard, as Common spits his mindstate over some melodic background tunes.

2. Invocation Nice guitar sample as Common spits rhymes in almost a freestyle stream of conciosness fashion. 4.5/5
3. Real nigga quotes…Common is agressive on this one. You knew he was going to be serious and get straight to business as you hear Common cut fools heads off over some nice horns.  5/5
4. Retrospect for life…This song is beautiful and moving. This is why I love hiphop. 5/5
5. Gettin’ down at the amphitheater…The only downer on the first half of this album. It's not that it's bad, it just isn't at the level of the rest of the album.  3/5
6. Food for funk…Nice head nodder.  4/5
7. G.O.D. (Gaining One’s Defintion)…Another instropsective track curtesy of Common and Ceelo. Plenty of pianos in the background give this track a meloncholy feel.  4.5/5
8. My city…More of an interlude performed by Malik Yusef.  Here is some nice spoken word piece over an instrumental. It's kind of a transition between the first half and the second half, as the second half kind of has a different flavor to it. 4/5
9. Hungry…Common cuts off some more mufuckas heads. He ain't playin.  4.5/5
10.   All night long…The Roots at their peak deliver a musical masterpiece. Common drops four verses of dopeness with Erykah Badu hooking up a tight hook. 5/5
11.   Stolen moments pt. 1…Common talks about how he got jacked.  4.5/5
12.   Stolen moments pt. 2…As the previous song fades into this one, Common continues his detective mission to figure out who did it.  The album jacket says feat Black Thought but Black Thought only says a couple of lines. 4.5/5
13.   1’2 many…Not feeling this song. It sounds like hateration. I always skip it.  2/5
14.   Stolen moments pt. 3…Common finishes up his story.  4.5/5
15.   Making a name for ourselves…Canibus tells you what he's gonna do to you. "I'll hit you in the chest so hard your shoulders will touch, what!"  4/5
16.   Reminding me (of self)…My favorite song on the album, second favorite Common song of all time behind 6th Sense. The beat is perfect. It has a funky baseline and some sampled strings which give this track a real nice feel to it. Common tells the story of his homie Sef. This track has a T.R.O.Y type feel to it. A true masterpiece. Everytime I hear this song it puts me in a good mood. 5/5
17.   Pop’s rap part 2/Fatherhood…Spoken word (outro)


Overall: 4.5 mics Common's best album. It's a balanced album, it has the hungry feel that resurrection had but much more refined and mature and much more advanced musically. Plus this is before he fucked Erykah and started acting weird. Common had such chemistry with No Id, Dug Infinite and Y Not and it's a shame he doesn't work with them anymore. This album was in my deck for a couple of years.

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