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I don't think it's really shocking but there will definetely be some people that think it's way too low.
Quote from: Kill on May 10, 2005, 08:51:37 AMgreat album. I donīt like "I Used To Love H.E.R.", but thatīs a different story. good read once again, keep them comingdamn, expand on this please? im just curious why...I Used To Love HER and Resurrection are probably my faves from this album...dope shit
great album. I donīt like "I Used To Love H.E.R.", but thatīs a different story. good read once again, keep them coming
Well SAID^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^overrated
Quote from: Leggy Hendrix on May 10, 2005, 01:50:55 PMQuote from: Kill on May 10, 2005, 08:51:37 AMgreat album. I donīt like "I Used To Love H.E.R.", but thatīs a different story. good read once again, keep them comingdamn, expand on this please? im just curious why...I Used To Love HER and Resurrection are probably my faves from this album...dope shitwell, iīm not saying itīs wack, beautiful beat, nice rapping, technically. BUT...I donīt like how people act like Common is kicking the most profound and sophisticated of knowledge when all he really does is demonize and simplify the development of hiphop at the time, sounding pretty lachrymose. Iīm not saying there is no truth to it, but itīs a whiny and not very differentiated statement IMO, but since it takes the words right out of the mouths of half a generation of hiphop heads preoccupied about "not selling out" and "keeping it real", it has made its way to "classic" status. Again, OF COURSE itīs not mere bullshit, OF COURSE Common does have some points, but neither is it very original, nor overly analytical. The message itself is simple and banal and does not impress me at allthe lyrical/poetic side to this track is overrated too. Music as a woman/girl is the oldest metaphor on earth, yet many cats act like it was geniusly creative of Common to come up with that. The way he does it is not bad, yet there are also lines that seem weak in the context of this metaphor...eg "doin her in the park", doesnīt sound like deep love, "now sheīs a gangsta rollin with gangsta bitches", suddenly suggests sheīs male etc...and finally, what i find the overall clumsiest line Common has ever spit is "what Iīm talkin bout yīall is hiphop". DUUUUH. The worst move he could make was explaining a metaphor that was quite fucking obvious as if it were a revelation...that has a bad effect on the whole song.there is a lot of more universal stuff that i could write pages about based on its relation to this song, but i hope i gave you a basic idea of my opinion and why i have it. and if i donīt like it i donīt like it, that donīt mean that iīm hatin (i do listen to it from time to time too, cause aesthetically itīs very nice)....peace
good read man..u writing this shit up?
BTW, I'm not writing all these "reviews". Some I'll write, some I'll copy and paste points I agree with from difference sources and others like this one from Blaze's "The 10 Defining CD's Of The '90s" I'll just straight copy.
i don't totally agree with you but that was well put, props, peace.