Let's keep this shit going...

In order:

1. The 6th Sense
2. A Penny For My Thoughts
3. Its Your World
4. Nuthin' To Do
5. Reminding Me (of sef)
6. Resurrection
7. BE
8. All Night Long
9. Retrospect For Life
10. Heat
11. Soul By The Pound
12. Chapter 13
13. The Sun God
14. I am music
15. Invocation

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Sixth Sense
I Used To Love H.E.R.
The Corner
The Game
Bitch In Yoo
Book Of Life
Testify
Real Nigga Quotes
1-9-9-9
All Night Long
Reminding Me Of Self
Thelonius
The People
Ghetto Dreams
Take It EZ

I tend to gravitate to his later stuff more than the rest of his fanbase does, it seems.

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"I may curse, I may have a bad mouth, whatever whatever. I'm not that bad, yaknow'mean. Bad to y'all, I dunno how y'all... I don't give a fuck. Um, I'm a good person at heart, for real and shit.

I think his albums in terms of quality are pretty evenly distributed as far as eras go until you get to the post-BE era

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I mean, your taste is your taste, but that's one of my least favorite story rhymes evar.

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OL' DIRTY BASTARD on himself:
"I may curse, I may have a bad mouth, whatever whatever. I'm not that bad, yaknow'mean. Bad to y'all, I dunno how y'all... I don't give a fuck. Um, I'm a good person at heart, for real and shit.

I need to narrow it down to only solo album cuts cause if we start talking about all his soundtrack stuff (A Dream), mixtape stuff (Like They Used to Say) or otherwise (E=MC2, etc.) I'll never narrow it down.

That said, E=MC2 is so fucking unreal it may make the list anyway.

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And I can't do your method cuz lately I've been thinking HAS to be on there

I can't fucking do this. I can't.

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Charms Alarm
Soul By the Pound (Thump Mix)
Resurrection
Communism
Orange Pineapple Juice
The Bitch In Yoo
High Expectations
Real Nigga Quotes
Hungry
The Questions w/Mos Def
Nag Champa (Afrodisiac for the World)
Star 69
Aquarius
It's Your World Part One
Start the Show

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Falcons, Braves, Bulldogs and Hawks

Geto Boys, Poison Clan, UGK, Eightball & MJG, OutKast, Goodie Mob

no order
The Sun God
Respiration
U Black Maybe
Dooinit
Geto Heaven (TSOI Remix)
It's Your World pt.1&2
Nag Champa
The Light
One Nine Nine Nine
Retrospect For Life
The 6th Sense
The Truth (with Monch & Kweli)
Resurrection
High Expectations
Heat

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his own solo albums. God.

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Yea, The Sun God, Respiration, 1-9-9-9, & High Expectations might be 4 of my top 8, & that's not even including anything from HIS albums.

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Soul By the Pound (rmx)
Watermelon
Maintaining
Chapter 13 (Rich vs. Poor)
Tekzilla
Cold Blooded
1999
Like They Used To Say
1-2 Many
Chi City
Hungry
Car Horn
Real N@#$a Quotes
6th Sense
Go!
The Light

Wow, I got to 15 A LOT quicker than I thought I would. And I did a lot more editing on this list than I do on the two others. There's like almost another 10 tracks that I removed.

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People would be quick to talk about how Nas and Jay got far better songs/discogs than Common, mostly cause they probly can't look past a couple late career blunders (UMC namely) to remember how flawless Comm's catalogue was for most of his career. But damn, this really might be the hardest one. This dood got SO many classic tracks.

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Without question.

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A lot more consistent, especially early on. Yeah, Common's got a couple stinkers, but so does Nas.

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First off, I don't think anyone is in the same realm as Nas when it comes to the number of great songs. He has so many joints that are at such a high level to me.

But album-wise, I really think it has gotten to the point where Nastradamus has people under appreciating Nas' catalogue.

Illmatic - It Was Written - I Am (I rocks with that album) - Stillmatic - Gods Son - N - Life Is Good are all strong albums. And then you throw in The Lost Tapes and Distant Relatives and you're talking about 9 very good to great albums.

Resurrection - One Day - Like Water is a great run. I can't rock with EC. Be is a dope album. Finding Forever has its moment so I'll compare that to I Am as far as my opinion on it. And that's about it for Com. So all things considered, that's 5 very good to great albums and even if you add EC that is still only 6.

Obviously this is nitpicking because they are two of my top 10 MCs of all-times and shit

>First off, I don't think anyone is in the same realm as Nas
>when it comes to the number of great songs. He has so many
>joints that are at such a high level to me.

Can't really argue with this.


>But album-wise, I really think it has gotten to the point
>where Nastradamus has people under appreciating Nas'
>catalogue.
>
>Illmatic - It Was Written - I Am (I rocks with that album) -
>Stillmatic - Gods Son - N - Life Is Good are all strong
>albums. And then you throw in The Lost Tapes and Distant
>Relatives and you're talking about 9 very good to great
>albums.

I've never really foxed with "I Am...". And IMHO, "Stillmatic" was half of a good album. You left off "Hip-Hop is Dead," which I thoroughly enjoy. But honestly, the "Untitled" album leaves me kind of cold. I do really, really like Distant Relatives and Life is Good though, no argument there.

>Resurrection - One Day - Like Water is a great run. I can't
>rock with EC. Be is a dope album. Finding Forever has its
>moment so I'll compare that to I Am as far as my opinion on
>it. And that's about it for Com. So all things considered,
>that's 5 very good to great albums and even if you add EC that
>is still only 6.

I liked EC quite a bit. Don't love it, but I consider it dope. Liked "Finding Forever" well enough; even though I don't put it in his top tier, I enjoy it more than "I Am..." (and what stands out is that mostly the beats are the saving grace of that album). But I really enjoyed "The Dreamer/The Believer."

>Obviously this is nitpicking because they are two of my top 10
>MCs of all-times and shit

Pretty much.

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You're such pests...now, what is it you want? In your depths of your ignorance, what is it you want? Well, whatever it is you want, I can't deliver because I just don't see it. - Orson Welles


Never Tired, Always Sleepy

Invocation
Resurrection
Be
Retrospect for Life
The Sixth Sense
The Light
A Song for Assata
Soul by the Pound (thump mix)
It's Your World
I Used to Love H.E.R.
Communism
Hungry
The Sun God
Thisisme
Book Of Life

Some tough omissions. Somethings might be interchangable.
Orange-Pineapple Juice, 1-9-9-9, Funky for You, Time Travelin, The Corner, I Am Music... the more I think the harder it becomes.

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The Light
Soul By The Pound (Thump Remix)
I Used to Love H.E.R.
A Song for Assata (feat. Cee-Lo Green)
U, Black Maybe
Between Me, You & Liberation (feat. Cee-Lo)
The 6th Sense
A Dream
The People (feat. Dwele)
The Corner (feat. Kanye West & The Last Poets)
Ghetto Dreams (feat. Nas)
Announcement
Jimi Was A Rock Star (feat. Erykah Badu)
Faithful (feat. Bilal and John Legend)
It's Your World Pt. 1 & 2 (feat. Bilal and Lonnie Lynn)

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1 It's Your World
2 Time Travelin'
3 I Used To Love H.E.R.
4 Chi City
5 Aquarius
6 Real People
7 Start The Show (Extended)
8 Hungry
9 Resurrection (Extra P Remix)
10 Misunderstood
11 Resurrection
12 Watermelon
13 Gold
14 Invocation
15 The 6th Sense

"I'm one of the world's great survivors. I'll always survive because I've got the right combination of wit, grit and bullshit."

© Don King

I love the beat just playing with no "hook". And Comm's third verse is dope. He has a habit of cutting off dope third verses. The Food is another one.

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This is in order.



1. Resurrection
2. I Used to Love H.E.R.
3. Nag Champa
4. Stolen Moments pt. 3
5. The Light
6. Black Maybe
7. Thelonius
8. New Wave
9. The Corner
10. Nuthin' to Do
11. I Want You
12. Testify
13. The 6th Sense
14. The Dreamer
15. Reminding Me (Of Sef)

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Soul By The Pound (Thump Mix)
Resurrection
Nuthin' To Do
Play Dis (No I.D. Remix) w/ Saukrates
Invocation
All Night Long
1-9-9-9 w/ Sadat X
The Sun God
Heat
The 6th Sense
I Am Music
Be
It's Your World
U, Black Maybe
Gold

*Other than chronological lol

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"If your life consists of NO drankin, NO drugs, NO loose booty, NO fatty foods, NO additives, NO preservatives, AND no waings.......then what the fuck you wanna live so long for, boring ass n****?" - Tay

I liked the vibe they were going for, building off the soulful hip-hop revival of Be, but with added instrumentation (outros of Start The Show, Southside and U, Black Maybe).

Imagine if the tracklist looked like this:

Intro
Start The Show (extended version)
The People
Driving Me Wild
A Dream
Southside
E=MC2
The Game
U, Black Maybe
So Far To Go (the shining version)
Misunderstood
Play Your Cards Right

now I know that lineup is kind of cheating because it uses tracks from a couple soundtracks and from Dilla's album, but they were all recorded and released around the same time, and together they make an album that would have ranked among Common's best imo

Avy: Tyrion disrespects King Joffrey yet again

"If your life consists of NO drankin, NO drugs, NO loose booty, NO fatty foods, NO additives, NO preservatives, AND no waings.......then what the fuck you wanna live so long for, boring ass n****?" - Tay

>I liked the vibe they were going for, building off the
>soulful hip-hop revival of Be, but with added instrumentation
>(outros of Start The Show, Southside and U, Black Maybe).
>
>Imagine if the tracklist looked like this:
>
>Intro
>Start The Show (extended version)
>The People
>Driving Me Wild
>A Dream
>Southside
>E=MC2
>The Game
>U, Black Maybe
>So Far To Go (the shining version)
>Misunderstood
>Play Your Cards Right
>


That song is so terrible

while we're imagining a different version of the album, just imagine that he recorded different, better lyrics.

Avy: Tyrion disrespects King Joffrey yet again

"If your life consists of NO drankin, NO drugs, NO loose booty, NO fatty foods, NO additives, NO preservatives, AND no waings.......then what the fuck you wanna live so long for, boring ass n****?" - Tay

>while we're imagining a different version of the album, just
>imagine that he recorded different, better lyrics.

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with your tracklist.

But I listened to it recently and have a newfound appreciation for it. I bumped it hard when it first came out, then fell into the "it's lazy" category. And there are a bunch of lazy moments on it. But if you really listen, Comm came hard lyrically on that album with some vintage wordplay. And the beats are really good for the most part. Underappreciated album IMO, in hindsight.

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>with your tracklist.
>
>But I listened to it recently and have a newfound appreciation
>for it. I bumped it hard when it first came out, then fell
>into the "it's lazy" category. And there are a bunch of lazy
>moments on it. But if you really listen, Comm came hard
>lyrically on that album with some vintage wordplay. And the
>beats are really good for the most part. Underappreciated
>album IMO, in hindsight.

Yup, that album definitely gets a bad rap. All in all it's pretty good with just a few mis-steps, which is why I made the new tracklist/playlist, although that doesn't fix the couple lazy bars you mentioned

Avy: Tyrion disrespects King Joffrey yet again

"If your life consists of NO drankin, NO drugs, NO loose booty, NO fatty foods, NO additives, NO preservatives, AND no waings.......then what the fuck you wanna live so long for, boring ass n****?" - Tay

>Yup, that album definitely gets a bad rap. All in all it's
>pretty good with just a few mis-steps, which is why I made the
>new tracklist/playlist, although that doesn't fix the couple
>lazy bars you mentioned

...cause really the only song you left on there that had lazy bars was Driving Me Wild. You left on all the tracks that he destroyed.

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I do need to give it another chance though. It's really my fault, I think I wanted/was expecting It's Your World Part 2 (or part 3 actually) and didn't give it a fair shot when the vibe was different. But yeah, tack it on the end if it's your thing. Really that tracklist I posted is just to illustrate that there was enough quality recorded during those sessions/during that time frame to fix the problems that are often cited with that album

Another thought re: Finding Forever. If memory serves, The Glory by Kanye was supposed to be the lead single for FInding Forever according to the first press release about the album. Not sure why Common ended up passing on that beat (as he did with Everything I Am and Celebration from Late Registration). Imagine Common over The Glory added to the better tracks from Finding Forever. Man.

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nm

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"If your life consists of NO drankin, NO drugs, NO loose booty, NO fatty foods, NO additives, NO preservatives, AND no waings.......then what the fuck you wanna live so long for, boring ass n****?" - Tay

That's one of my favorite Kanye songs. Everything I Am would've been dope with Common too.

I wonder why they never released Common's version of those songs. They gotta be somewhere.

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This should be good. Common is one of my favorite mc's.

Let's see...

1.The Sun God
2.I Used To Love H.E.R.
3.Hungry
4.Retrospect For Life
5.The Light
6.Sixth Sense
7.Come Close
8.The Food
9.Real People
10.The People
11.1-9-9-9
12.Nag Champa
13.The Bitch In Yoo
14.Heat
15.Dooinit

The wierdest thing is as I was doing this list when I got to about number 12
I started drawing a blank. His catalog is crazy though, so I know I'm leavin some dope songs off.

1. I Used To Love H.E.R.
2. The Corner
3. 1999
4. Invocation
5. Resurrection
6. 6th Sense
7. Be
8. Gold
9. The Light
10. The Food
11. Nuthin' To Do
12. Nag Champa
13. Retrospect For Life
14. So Far To Go
15. The Bitch In Yoo

I Used to Love H.E.R.
Nag Champa
Resurrection (Xtra P remix)
Heat
The 6th Sense
1,2 Many
The Light
Black Maybe
Thelonius
1999
Commonism
It's Your World
Chi-City
Be (Dilla's version)
Between Me, You and Liberation

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I Used to Love H.E.R.
Invocation
Hungry
Resurrection
Reminding me(Of Sef)
Stolen Moments (series) I know it's three songs gotd*mn
The Light
Doin' it
1-9-9-9
Nag Champa
Geto Heaven Part Two
Song for Assata
Real People
The Corner
It's Your World

It takes all kinds to make up a world, son. -My pops

I just live for the comments -Da wiz

On Act Too

It takes all kinds to make up a world, son. -My pops

I just live for the comments -Da wiz

Resurrection
I Used To Love H.E.R.
Invocation
G.O.D.
Hungry
Time Travelin'
Dooinit
The Sixth Sense
Nag Champa
Aquarius
Be (Intro)
It's Your World
The People
1-9-9-9
High Expectations

Cee-Lo kills his verse and the hook.

Com's verse is thoughtful and honest.

That album pushed Com towards the top of my list.

I liked Resurrection when it dropped but by no means was Com one of my favorites in 94. Much like what happened with Thought on Illadelph, Com quickly became one of my favorites because he actually had something to say. At that point in my life I was listening to lyrics with a little more depth.

GOD is a great example of that.

Probably in my Top 5 favorite Common songs along with High Expectations, The Sixth Sense, 1-9-9-9, and Its Your World.

Common's verses are thoughtful and clever, as was often the case in that time period. I'm pretty sure you and I have discussed this exact topic but IMO, Common was the best MC on earth during that late 90s time period.

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Replace The People with that joint.

1 Book of Life

2 Nuthin to Do

3 Invocation

4 Hungry

5 Retrospect for Life

6 Ghetto Heaven (d version)

7 Heat

8 Cold Blooded

9 Doin It

10 Be Intro

11 Its Your World

12 Soul Power

13 Lately I’ve Been Thinking

14 Forever Begins

15 Resurrection- I'll go album version


Tough as sh!t to leave off-

Nag Champa, Thisisme, Tekzilla, Real Ni##a Quotes, Making a Name, GOD, Maintaining, E=MC squared, 1-9-9-9, The Dreamer, Real People, Start the Show, Misunderstood. . . okay I’ll stop


**** you could get to 15 just on guest spots- his sh!t with De La, Roots, Monch, Pete Rock, Ye....etc

damn

which album I still sweat but eff it...

In no particular order:

Real People
They Say
Come Close
Between me u and liberation
Retrospect for life
Go
Chi City
Its Your World
Heaven Somewhere
The Corner
I Want U
Misunderstood
Black Maybe
The Light
The People

~"You are your own best thing" (c) Paul D in BELOVED

(songs with Common as primary rapper)

1. I Used To Love H.E.R.
2. Resurrection
3. Invocation
4. The 6th Sense
5. 1-9-9-9
6. The Corner
7. Tekzilla
8. The Sun God (intro with the "COMMON..." is ill)
9. E=MC2
10. Charms Alarm
11. Real Nigga Quotes (shit is his most "Chicago" sounding song, LOL)
12. I Am Music
13. A Penny For My Thoughts
14. Dooinit
15. The People

this was hard, I edited this list about 3 times, and still feel "The Bitch In Yoo", "Ghetto Dreams", "Heat", "Thelonious" and shit like that should have made it

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new joint with No I.D.

In no order

Resurrection
Soul by the Pound
Funky for You
Maintaining
Invocation
G.O.D. (Gaining One's Definition)
Love Is
Lovin I Lost
Thelonius
U Black Maybe
The Believer
Tekzilla
1-9-9-9
The People
Communism

1. nuthin' to do
2. book of life
3. 6th sense
4. nag champa
5. g.o.d. ft. cee-lo
6. the bitch in yoo
7. the light
8. thelonius
9. star 69
10. aquarius
11. real people
12. it's your world
13. the people
14. the game
15. forever begins

and its f*cking great.

1. sex 4 suga
2. announcement
3. i got a right ta

just kidding...

chosen mostly based on the fact that i've listened to these more than others. the first song is the only one in order.

- i used to love h.e.r.
- resurrection
- communism
- sixth sense
- a song for assata
- nag champa
- geto heaven part two
- the light
- star 69
- be
- go (am i the only one with this?)
- faithful
- forever begins
- celebrate
- cloth

damn, i don't have room for come close, the hustler, the dreamer, the believer, or anything from One Day...?! also, LWFC is not even my favorite album (BE is) yet i realize it has 5 of my favorite common songs.


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Soul by The Pound
I Used to Love H.E.R.
Hungry
Heat
Sun God
EM2
6th Sense
Nag Champa
BE
The Corner
Misunderstood
Sweet
So Far to Go
Communism
Chi-City

Deepthought

"When I hear wack rhymes, I get fed up"- Krs-One

"Even when I'm bragging, I'm being sincere"-LL

Verse One:

Could you tell me who released our animal instinct?
Got the white man sittin' there tickled pink.
Laughin' at us on the av

1, 2 Many
I Used To Love H.E.R.
Sum Shit I Wrote
The 6th Sense

G.O.D. w/ Cee-Lo
The Bitch In Yoo
Nag Champa
Dooinit
Geto Heaven Part Two w/ D'Angelo

The Food w/ Kanye West
In My Own World w/ No. I.D.
Making A Name For Ourselves w/ Canibus
Thelonius w/ Slum Village
Resurrection

Rest In Peace, Bad News Brown