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February 25, 2003

Ten Ways to Save Hip-Hop

Common dispenses some knowledge

Finding Forever

Two years ago, Be was not only Common's highest-charting CD, it was also the best of his career - thoughtful, "bitch"-free and mama-friendly like all Common records, but also edgy, lush and likable all over, thanks to chief producer Kanye West. No surprise, then, that the Chicago rapper took a...

2007 RS: 3.5of 5 Stars

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Electric Circus

2002

Like Water For Chocolate

2000

One Day It'll All Make Sense

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Resurrection

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Common arrived on the hip-hop scene of the early-Nineties as Common Sense, a post-Native Tongues rapper who offered an alternative to the prevailing gangsta fare of contemporaries like Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre. With space-age effects, old-school beats, jazz- and funk-influenced musical bedding and lyrics that often come off like spoken-word poetry, he helped kick off an underground hip-hop movement ...

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