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Title: Common - Universal Mind Control... WHY?!
Post by: ch1nchilla on December 08, 2008, 06:54:02 PM: (http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm217/ch1nchilla/Common190.jpg)

Weakest Common album yet, weakest Neptunes production yet... what is going on here? Also, Pharrell's verse in Announcement was clearly ghostwritten by Pusha T, IMO. (Or Common. Definitely not by Pharrell, though.)

I am a huge Pharrell / Neptunes / Common fan too... :'(
Title: Re: Common - Universal Mind Control... WHY?!
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on December 08, 2008, 06:55:59 PM: Because otherwise, some people might not behave how I want, and that can get really frustrating.
Title: Re: Common - Universal Mind Control... WHY?!
Post by: hyp on December 08, 2008, 07:05:21 PM: :piss common :piss2

he fell off a looooong time ago.
Title: Re: Common - Universal Mind Control... WHY?!
Post by: ch1nchilla on December 08, 2008, 07:10:45 PM: Quote from: hyp on December 08, 2008, 07:05:21 PM
:piss common :piss2

he fell off a looooong time ago.

Did you like Be?
Title: Re: Common - Universal Mind Control... WHY?!
Post by: Himu on December 09, 2008, 02:54:14 AM: smh

i haven't heard it yet but it'll be good
Title: Re: Common - Universal Mind Control... WHY?!
Post by: Phoenix Dark on December 09, 2008, 03:31:31 AM: Didn't even feel like making a thread for this garbage. He managed to make an album worse than Finding Forever

Common albums are nothing more than him filling various quotas. Every album has the same pattern: poppy bullshit song for the ladies, the "for the seeds" kickin' knowledge song, the "i'm from Chicago nicca!" battlerap song, etc. It's diminishing returns though - each album features a worse version of the quota.

In terms of albums from older artists Q-Tip dropped a good album this year. GZA's album is...eh. Lyrically he's still on top but he's got absolutely no energy on the album. Overall it's a good record but I listened to it a couple times and deleted it from my iPod
Title: Re: Common - Universal Mind Control... WHY?!
Post by: Fresh Prince on December 09, 2008, 05:25:36 AM: What a waste of a good beat.

Also rappers should also stop giving Hype work. He's awful.
Title: Re: Common - Universal Mind Control... WHY?!
Post by: WrikaWrek on December 09, 2008, 06:10:35 AM: He was cool in Street Kings.

"We straight nightmares. We the walking, talking exigent circumstances. "
Title: Re: Common - Universal Mind Control... WHY?!
Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on December 09, 2008, 10:09:21 AM: Be was his last halfway decent album.

This new one is total crap. I think Electric Circus was his worse but this one might be just as bad.
Title: Re: Common - Universal Mind Control... WHY?!
Post by: ch1nchilla on December 09, 2008, 11:37:25 AM: It hurts to say, but I blame the terrible Neptunes beats.
Title: Re: Common - Universal Mind Control... WHY?!
Post by: hyp on December 09, 2008, 01:05:37 PM: the albums i liked are everything from "one day it'll all make sense" and everything that precedes it.

please tell me you guys have all listened to resurrection.
Title: Re: Common - Universal Mind Control... WHY?!
Post by: Phoenix Dark on December 09, 2008, 01:44:23 PM: Resurrection is not only his best album but one of the best hip hop albums ever. Not a big fan of One Day It'll All Make Sense; it's ok but contains some dumb filler and sounds...neutered. What's up with Lauryn Hill making appearances on sophomore slump rap albums? Haven't heard Like Water for Chocolate
Title: Re: Common - Universal Mind Control... WHY?!
Post by: hyp on December 09, 2008, 05:46:04 PM: i agree, it's pretty weak but it holds some sentimental value to me 'cause i used to bone some chick to it. ;)