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COMMON - Be
| PrefixMag |
| The thirty-second bass line at the beginning of Be is a statement. Keep it simple. Keep it organic. Keep it real. The phrase has been used so constantly in the past twenty years that it has become the opposite of what was intended. Now real is fake, and the ghetto tragedy becomes cliché. The gangster persona was created out of music that was created out of the condition, and the-chicken-or-the-egg game plays on. Why be mean to women if you can’t rap about it in a song? Why sling rock if you can’t make a music career out of it?...full text |
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| ShakingThrough |
| Be is an appropriate title for Common’s latest release. Short, assertive, and to the point, it’s a perfect header for an album filmed with equally concise, self-assured and message-heavy tracks. Clocking in at less than 43 minutes (in comparison to the hour-and-twenty-minute, brilliant but uneven Like Water for Chocolate and 2002’s near-75-minute, eclectic, captivating, Electric Circus), Be finds Common (Lonnie Rashied Lynn), along with producers Kanye West and Dilla, avoiding filler and excessive guest appearances in favor of tight rhymes and soulful, homogeneously smooth beats....full text |
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| Dotmusic |
| Back in 2003, "Electric Circus" saw Common crowned Hip-Hop's psychedelic journeyman extraordinaire and, with the help of The Roots' drummer and producer Amir Thompson, he created one of the year's most critically feted albums. The follow-up again finds his taste in production assistance to be faultless; Kanye West is the man in charge. The only other production credits go to one-time Slum Village mainman, Jay Dee....full text |
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