verbal kint
02-02-2005, 12:08 AM
taken from: Cocaine Blunts and Hip Hop Tapes (http://www.cocaineblunts.com/blog/blog.html)
Common f/ Kanye West & Last Poets - "The Corners (http://home.gwu.edu/~noz/mp3/corners.mp3)"
from BE LP (Interscope, 2005)
The long awaited BE has been touted as Com's return to the playful lyricism that heads loved his masterpiece Ressurection, before Erykah Badu turned him into a male Macy Gray. And "The Corners" (i think) is set to be the first single.
As far as lyrics go, Com's not exactly blowing any wigs back on this one, if this came out in '95 it'd be one of his least interesting joints. But let's be honest, any hip hop head in his right mind would take this over 2003's limp wrist avant garde opus Electric Circus. Anything that'll get him to stop rocking stupid hats (see above).
And Kanye definitely stepped his game up on this one. Homie's been on some lazy shit lately and I'm glad to see he's saving the heat for Common and giving Brandy and Game the duds. Either that, or he finally got that drum cd from No ID.
Also, the Last Poets make a welcome appearance. While I don't necessarily subscribe to the popular theory that they (or Gil Scott Heron or Watts Prophets or whoever) had any direct impact on the evolution of hip hop, they did make some very powerful records that are worth checking out
I think this quote I found on google really sums up Com's approach to making music: " Like Run-DMC, Common has made a career out of a fresh synthesis of hip-hop and rap..... ??
Common f/ Kanye West & Last Poets - "The Corners (http://home.gwu.edu/~noz/mp3/corners.mp3)"
from BE LP (Interscope, 2005)
The long awaited BE has been touted as Com's return to the playful lyricism that heads loved his masterpiece Ressurection, before Erykah Badu turned him into a male Macy Gray. And "The Corners" (i think) is set to be the first single.
As far as lyrics go, Com's not exactly blowing any wigs back on this one, if this came out in '95 it'd be one of his least interesting joints. But let's be honest, any hip hop head in his right mind would take this over 2003's limp wrist avant garde opus Electric Circus. Anything that'll get him to stop rocking stupid hats (see above).
And Kanye definitely stepped his game up on this one. Homie's been on some lazy shit lately and I'm glad to see he's saving the heat for Common and giving Brandy and Game the duds. Either that, or he finally got that drum cd from No ID.
Also, the Last Poets make a welcome appearance. While I don't necessarily subscribe to the popular theory that they (or Gil Scott Heron or Watts Prophets or whoever) had any direct impact on the evolution of hip hop, they did make some very powerful records that are worth checking out
I think this quote I found on google really sums up Com's approach to making music: " Like Run-DMC, Common has made a career out of a fresh synthesis of hip-hop and rap..... ??