I'm not saying he's wack by any means. He's my favorite MC. I was just wondering if there is any lines that stand out or make you cringe when you here them... not counting Can I Borrow A Dollar. (Not that it's wack) The very beginning of This Is Me used to get to me, but it doesn't really bother me anymore. It's almost like he's trying to sound like someone who can't rap.

ME

"I'm gifted like December 25th"

-KRS

I think we all know what com's wackest line is. Can we say "Dooinit?" But that's beating a dead horse. Peace, Asana

"I'd fuck ya sista, I'd fuck ya cat. I'd fuck ya moms but the bitch is too fat." --MC Gusto CB4

a dikka da dikka da dikka didda di-da
at the end of "the light"?
well in writing its not too impressive but common manages to pull it off nicely. if i tried pullin that shit i would just embarass myself.

met her overseas where it don't really be no sistas
called her onstage as Bilal sang Soul Sista

- Reminisce

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That whole verse is weak especially after the controlled flame that Mos and Bilal bring to it. That line about the girl on the Jamaica poster came off real corny too. A rarity for Com tho. My favorite MC as well.

One,
BTW

>
>That whole verse is weak especially
>after the controlled flame that
>Mos and Bilal bring to
>it. That line about the
>girl on the Jamaica poster
>came off real corny too.
> A rarity for Com
>tho. My favorite MC
>as well.
>

Completely feel you on that Jamaica poster shit. That definitely had to be a rush job on that. I love com, but they could have left him off of that with that there. "Controlled flame" is a good way to describe Mos and Bilal. both of them stayed in the pocket. In fact, I'm finna play that right now.

HTP

"There is no darkness like Ignorance" unkown

>met her overseas where it don't
>really be no sistas
>called her onstage as Bilal sang
>Soul Sista
>
>- Reminisce


Dang if you gonna say it's wack atleast quote it right.

"Met her overseas where it really don't be no sistas
brought her onstage as Bilal sang "Soul Sista".

Furthermore...I didn't think he had any wack lines, and still don't. Been over some wack beats, but wack lines.....naw


"There is no darkness like Ignorance" unkown

>Furthermore...I didn't think he had any
>wack lines, and still don't.
> Been over some wack
>beats, but wack lines.....naw

Ditto. Nuff said.

Kyle

"Yo...on The Amen, Corner I stood, lookin at my former hood. Felt the spirit in the wind, knew my friend was gone for good. Threw dirt on the casket, the hurt, I couldn't mask it
Mixin down emotions, struggle I hadn't mastered. I coreograph seven steps to heaven. And hell, waiting to exhale and make the bread leavened. Veteran of a cold war It's Chica-I-go for. What I know or, what's known. So some days I take the bus home, just to touch home. From the crib I spend months gone. Sat by the window with a clutched dome listenin' to shorties cuss long. Young girls with weak minds, but they butt strong. Tried to call, or at least beep the Lord, but didn't have a touch-tone
It's a dog-eat-dog world, you gotta mush on. Some of this land I must own
Outta the city, they want us gone Tearin' down the 'jects creatin plush homes. My circumstance is between Cabrini and Love Jones. Surrounded by hate, yet I love home. Ask my God how he thought travellin the world sound Found it hard to imagine he hadn't been past downtown. It's deep, I heard the city breathe in its sleep. Of reality I touch, but for me it's hard to keep. Deep, I heard my man breathe in his sleep. Of reality I touch, but for me it's hard to keep"--Common

even if I didn't quote it verbatim.

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that was just plain awful...

be breezy...

honeybun

"i speak on behalf of those broads you call stuck up" - Lady Luck
"alotta cats who buy records are straight broke, but my language universal they be reciting
my quotes" - Talib Kweli
"i find it distresing there's never no in between. we're either niggas of kings, we're either
bitches or queens" - Mos Def

dam.. i was gonna say that
dikki ta dikki ta tikiiititiia ta
yo ill tell you the rest when i see you peace.
wack but with great execution!

... well actualy, I had to ask him what the hell was on his mind and what motivated, "a dikka da dikka da dikka didda di-da"
at the end of "the light"?

He told me it took him about two to three days to write 'The Light' 'cause he would write a lil... and then come back to it a lil later. While in the studio recording, he was laying down the vocals for the last verse but had NOT completed the lyrics. He filled in that gap with the tempo, pace, and beat but without words. He was gonna add some lyrics to that same paced delivery, but could think of how to end this letter to a lover... and what came out was, "a dikka da dikka da dikka didda di-da". He said that some people in the studio suggested he keep it as is. (WHY I don't know. I wasn't there)

So he did.

He stated that "I'll tell u the rest when I see you" was added to bring an element of him wanting to write more of his over-whelming feelings towards her in the letter, that he couldn't harbor them all and put it writing... so he had to tell her the rest in person.

Common told me this while in Portland on tour. I thought I talked aboutthat a while back. hmmm, my bad

Brian Kyle A.

a skinny girls cunt"

I always thought that was a pretty unnecessary analogy

wait,you mean actually has a wack line?no way.....im an okayplayer,i refuse to believe that.

a skinny girls _____.
thats whats great about common.. he brings that raw visual to the table.. i mean, when i heard that i was like Yuckkkk..
but i mean, its so vulgar its great,,

i always wanted to believe it says "deep like a skinny girls cut" like any cut on a skinny person is deep cause there isn't much there.......but whatever thats what i wanted to believe

peace

lol. i dig that..
okay.. wait.. whats that line he did on LWFC??
at the begginning of that one track..
Wasop yall this Dj Common Sense.... yadda yadda
i mean, he greatly execute wackness sometimes
but does it to the extent that your like "that was ill!!"
and also.. i mean, he is the greatest emcee along with Thought, Mos, and Talib.. so when you hear a cheese ball rhyme,
your like.. "he's got 200 great rhymes for every .5 wack line..
Ill tell you the rest when i see you.. Peace...

"All you gotta do is go 'ooh ooh ooh' or whatever and get paid" DaBrat in 'Glitter', on being a backup singer.

"So niggas...niggas ain't perfect?"--MosDef,"Bamboozled"

.

Any use of the word cunt is acceptable in a song!!! Matter fact....that's what's missing in music...the word cunt.

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... was...

"In a circle of ___~derogatory~____ , ya name was mentioned"

That kills me. LOL. He's got a complex with that like Whoa

B.Kyle

The question is, what was he doing in the circle of faggots to hear the name? JK.

But I thought the line from "I Used to Love H.E.R", where he said "...and you can tell by how her titties hung" was the wackest. It was the only earsore in an otherwise perfect song, it didn't really flow with the double entendre theme in the song.

be breezy...

honeybun

"i speak on behalf of those broads you call stuck up" - Lady Luck
"alotta cats who buy records are straight broke, but my language universal they be reciting
my quotes" - Talib Kweli
"i find it distresing there's never no in between. we're either niggas of kings, we're either
bitches or queens" - Mos Def

>But I thought the line from
>"I Used to Love H.E.R",
>where he said "...and you
>can tell by how her
>titties hung" was the
>wackest. It was the
>only earsore in an otherwise
>perfect song, it didn't really
>flow with the double entendre
>theme in the song.

but it does!!! it was one of those lines that i didn't get until like the 100th time i heard it. listen again--right before, he says something like:

"...she was becoming WELL-ROUNDED
just havin fun, not carin about anyone
and you could tell by how her titties hung."

but i agree, i have to grimmace when he says that and my girlfriend is listening. :)

Peace,
JuanToro

"I'm Nestle when it's crunch time ..." - Common

Hip-hop doesn't have titties, so how could that line be a double entendre?

>Hip-hop doesn't have titties, so how
>could that line be a
>double entendre?

hip-hop does NOT have to actually POSSESS titties in order for that line to qualify as a double entendre. a double entendre is simply a play on words or a pun. or according to webster, if you prefer, "a word or expression capable of two interpretations with one usually risqué". WELL-ROUNDED by itself is a phrase with more than one interpretation, which common invoked here. it's even slightly risqué. text book double entendre son!! WHAT!?!?!!! :)

Peace,
JuanToro

"I'm Nestle when it's crunch time ..." - Common

Ok, mr. muhfuckinknowitall, you still didn't answer my question. I didn't question the double meaning or as Mr. Webster put it "the interpretive nature" of "well rounded". So once again, explain to me how "how her titties hung" could have double meaning or be open to interpretation. Then when you're done with that show me how that isn't inconsistent with the rest of the song.

>Ok, mr. muhfuckinknowitall, you still didn't
>answer my question.

i know i didn't. my point is that your question is irrelevant. you're asking the wrong questions. hip hop doesn't have to have tities, they don't have to sag, nor does "how her tities hung" have to have multiple interpretations. READ THIS: the double entendre is well-rounded, NOT titties. the lines about titties is merely a continuation of the double meaning of well-rounded. get your shit straight fucker ... (c) jay-z

i'm through educating you.

Peace,
JuanToro

"I'm Nestle when it's crunch time ..." - Common

a chick that doesnt wear a bra you could describe as free with hers

you could tell by how her titties hung- hip-hop became fun not worried about anyone, just a thing of freedom, pretty much summing up the days before shit got commercial (verse 3)

it wasnt that difficult to decipher

Cosign on the circle of faggots line. But I think almost all the versus in alright okay whatever it's called on LWFC, is some of the wackest rhymes I've heard him drop. I mean, just the way he says, "yo HEY" in that one part's always made me a little urked. But he's one of the illest and that song's tight regardless. Peace, Asana

And can we presume he was referring to PDiddy Diddy Pop whatever with that eloqent dis?


"All you gotta do is go 'ooh ooh ooh' or whatever and get paid" DaBrat in 'Glitter', on being a backup singer.

"So niggas...niggas ain't perfect?"--MosDef,"Bamboozled"

Naw I think that dis was on "Love of my Life" (not sure if that's the title. Can't find my linear notes. Anyway when he says "her Daddy will beat her, eyes all Puff. In the mix on tape, niggas had her in the buck." Straight Puff dis.

"There is no darkness like Ignorance" unkown

from "payback is a grandmother":
"Eight million stories got me runnin in place, it's gettin tricky
(like who?) like dude, that do drum'n'bass"

wack as shit... the timing, the phrasing, the fuggin' idea is wack. comm really disappointed me with that line...

and i don' care what ANYBODY says about its intent or the message, "a song for assata" is straight up BOOTY! it's all wack... comm's just on a narrative tip there... doesn't bring anythin' new to the story... i've always been told in writing, if you're gonna tell someone else's story, bring something new to it... not that you have to make shit up... but something besides just a retelling of it...

just my (not so) humble opinion...
-k

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"without awareness, there is no life... only activity"

Assata's story until Common told me it.

Wack or not i think that was his point

and i'm damn sure there are many others like me.

can't think of a wack line that ain't already bin said

soz

"it's the c-double- o whats happenin'"
has common forgotton how to spell his own name?

The line wasn't wack by any means, but thats always wack to do...but for some reason it souded doper on the Just Ro than on the Saukrates..peace

i begged him to please change that tricky line....





steven wright tribute month.

the top 20 list.

1."curiosity killed that cat..........but for a while i was a suspect"

2." i was arrested once for walking in someone else's sleep"

3." i was walking through the forrest alone and a tree fell right in front of me......and i didn't hear it.........."

4."i bought some batteries.....but they weren't included."

5. "why is the alphabet in that order?.......is it because of that song?...the guy who wrote that song wrote everything.

6. "why is it a penny for your thoughts, but you have to put your two cents in?....somebody's making a penny...."

7. "i like to tease my plants when i water them....i water them with ice cubes"

8."for my birthday i got a humidifier and a dehumidifier.......put em in the same room and i let em fight it out......."

9. "....so i told her i knew i was gonna die cause there is an expiration date on my birth certificate...."

10. "i got some powdered water but i don't know what to add..."

11. "i got an answering machine for my phone, now when i'm not home when someone calls they get a recording of a busy signal."

12. "i have a map of the united states, it's an actual size.......1 mile equals 1 mile....they ask me where i live and i say 'e-5'.

13. "i broke a mirror in my house, supposed to get 7 years bad luck......my lawyer thinks that he can get me 5"

14. "got home the other day and everything in my house had been stolen, and replaced with an exact replica......couldn't believe it!........called my friend said 'look at this stuff! it's all an exact replica what do you think?'.....he said 'do i know you?'"

15."my girlfriend has a queen sized bed.....i have a court jester sized bed..."

16. "i hate when my foot falls asleep in the day cause that means it will be up all night."

17. "one time i went to a drive in, in a cab....movie cost me $95.00"

18. "just got out of hospital....i had a speed reading accident"

19. "one time in the middle of a job interview i took out a book and i started reading......guy said "what the hell are you doing?!" i said 'listen lemme ask you one question, if you were in a vehicle traveling at the speed of light, then you turned your lights on what would happen?' he said 'i don't know--' i said 'forget it then, i don't want to work for you'".

20. "i put instant coffee into a microwave over and i almost went back in time"

Like damn Com you just spit that?

One,
BTW

I agree, if you read the book, the song was boring. He wasted Cee-lo's cameo. But we're talking about wack lines here, who are you to digress, that never happens on this site.

you all are retards about the assata song lots of people of all nationalities never even heard of her till commons song for her and the trip to cuba let more people know the injustice of the government hate on other songs if you will but "song for Assata" made me tear in anger i never even heard of her till then leave that track alone k
peace

That line really disappointed you huh. If one line in a Com track can create such disappointment to you bruh...I suggest you search for this thing called a life. You need a bit of balance in your vida man.

Oh by the way...Your critique of "Song for Assata" is straight up BOOTY

but that's just my humble opinion...
p

the previous shit was supposed to be posted way further up

i agree with left :)

Yeah, that Tricky line kind of grates.

And he doesn't even do Drum 'n' Bass.

I know right?

hahah another retard Tricky DOES do drum and bass and he does trip hop get your facts straight i happen to know tricky personally met him in miami

...the story I think put's something new to it. I never heard it before he told it so it did it's place with raising the awareness of it. I've definitely listened to that track and been like, "did he just get away with that lyric?" But as a lyricist myself, I'm impressed because that's a really hard thing to tackle. Plus, the singers in that track are WAYYY to over the top for my taste. But it's tight nonetheless. Peace, Asana

Are you INSANE? Thisisme is some of if not just plain Common's best work. The begining, middle, AND end. Fucking great.

sig:
Puttin it down fo'
Oakland
Oaktown
Cokeland
The City of Dope
The 'Town
The 'O

I'm not sure if this is exactly what he said, I hope not....

"As we got older we would...and bang fags" Common "nuttin to do" what does he say in the middle of that line???

and what does he say earlier in the song "it would be hot as hell, house studs would yell_____!" what does he say???

and how bout the begining of the song "check it on the 1 common's gonna come" what's that all about???

anyway, it's still one of my favorite Common songs.

>I'm not sure if this is
>exactly what he said, I
>hope not....
>
>"As we got older we would...and
>bang fags" Common "nuttin to
>do" what does he say
>in the middle of that
>line???

I listened to that song about five times one day trying to see what the hell he was talkin' about on that song. I was like is it"bang fads" or "bang fags." I'm just gonna try to chalk that one up to Chicago slang.



"I'm a baaaad man, you're just a good son." --The artist formerly known as Sense

>>I'm just gonna
>try to chalk that one
>up to Chicago slang.
Hey now........ Don't tread on the Chi.




"Welcome to the real world..."-Morpheus-The Matrix

"Gotta Itch?"- Me

FINDAHBODEEEEEEEE

i've never written this one off as a wack line because the whole song was about chicago culture which i know nothing about, so that was something that probably happened which he was reminscing on

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Online hip hop lyrics archive. The best out there.

sig:
Puttin it down fo'
Oakland
Oaktown
Cokeland
The City of Dope
The 'Town
The 'O

as we got older we would bang fags then go to marshalls (clothing store) and change tags a trick all ghetto folks should know :P well if you from chicago you know it just find a item in the store cheaper than what you want and switch the tag

oh sorry misread your post he said stalk rush which is a street in downtown chicago

"...My Chamber's like Wilt" from "1-9-9-9". Wack. peace.

when he says "like martin on the bal-keeny"

that was a stretch that didn't work for me at all...

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agreed, actually his whole performance on that track was sub-par, especially since the beat and the scratched hook are so nasty. peace.

I have been posting on Okayplayer for a while now (sparatically). And it's funny that this is my first post to ever go , and to have a ?uest post attached. It's like everyone was just waiting to rag on Com. I should start a new post called "Stupidest fucking Roots beat ever"

ME

"I don't smoke weed or cess"

-Dr. Dre

"Ice Cube is not for the pop charts"

-Ice Cube

"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."
--Henry D. Thoreau

"Let us affront and reprimand the smooth mediocrity and squalid contentment of the times, and hurl in the face of custom, and trade, and office, the fact which is the upshot of all history, that there is a great responsible Thinker and Actor wherever moves a (wo)man: that a true (wo)man belongs to no other time and place, but is the centre of things."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds......"
--Romans 12:2

"Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it."
--Bertolt Brecht

"Speech is my hammer bang the world into shape, now let it fall..."
Mos Def

"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching."
--Satchel Paige

"It's time I made the name Com Sense the name y'all feared. Y'all niggas is scared, I'm you're worst nightmare squared...That's double for niggas who ain't mathematically aware..."

Uhh, no it isn't.

But I guess Canibus has to take some of the blame for that one.


C:\>

Yah, that line kills me more than anything.

---
"see this letter I, o world"
http://whatisay.org

if com and canibus are two..when they're squared..they equal four..so they're kinda right..but as a definition..yeah..definately wack

what the hell



"ill shoot you in the chest, ill wet you"
steve harvey

"FUNKY LIKE THEM AFRICANS IN FRANCE"

-- FUNKY FOR YOU.

How bout funky like them pimps in Chicago, cocksucker.

"funky like your grandpa's draws"
...oh, wait...that's not Com...

hahah thats q-tip

hahaha africans in france are funky FYI they don't use deoderant my uncle is west african from togalese he lived in france a bit and before he came to US he was funky :P

now watch me catch flack 'cause this song was intended to be uplifting and inspirational, but...

the line that always bothers me in that song is:

"some say that god is black and the devil is white
well, the devil is wrong and god is what's right..."

*dr evil laugh*... it's just sooo simplistic. and the fact that he sounds so serious, makes it all the more funny to me.

now let the chastising begin.

i'm going to hell.



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I mean it doesn't bug me anymore, but it sure used to... especially the whistle thing. But the song is still dope.

ME

i know this post is dead, but was listening to lwfc yesterday and heard my all time most hated line and had to share...

as we begin to lay
this foundation for a family - love ain't simple
...anything worth having you work at annually

huh? why annually? cause it rhymed? but so does daily, or any other -ly.

i always wince when i hear that one.

peace

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"I heard a ho say you her favorite rapper/So I had to smack her."

THis post is wack buddy.

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"I rhyme/far/away.../fom what your accustomed to hearing everyday"-Com 'Nag Champ'

ME

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RAP IS SOMETHING YOU DO. HIP-HOP IS SOMETHING YOU LIVE.

"The principles of true hip-hop have been forsaken, it's all contractual and about money makin'" - Black Thought.

"Ay yo Pharoah! Why don't you explain: How did Hip-Hop get caught up in this ill rap game?" - Prince Poetry

"I'm the assassinator of Rap" - Pharoah Monche.

"Rap is business music, Hip-Hop is cultural music" - Busta Rhymes

"...Even up the ratio of Hip-Hop to that shit they playin on the radio." - Talib Kweli

"Let's say I use my gift of gab to boast and brag in every rhyme I
compose. won't y'all get sick of that, cause I know I do when I hear those flows. That ain't hip-hop, you find that shit in the gift shop. But to each his own, my speech is gon', keep that shit up outta my zone." Andre 3000

whole song

wtf was that about. dope beat, com and mos!, and a wack ass song?

that was horrible.

"On Knots I'm landing". The cut w Cannibus & which he got outshined on... p.s. not a Cannibus fan.. though he's a beast.

Com always drops stupid lines here & there. He gotta get off the wack metaphors.. brother is damn near 30. But he's nice ray gard less. His live show is bangin'. So I'll excuse him.

d be like we aint got no time for that
?uestlove be alike we aint got no time for that
my old bird be like we aint got no time for that

bad on 2 levels
1) This is not the way to go, at the time trying to keep your courtship under wraps but naming soulquarian members and then saying "my old bird" along with other members of the collective

2) bars are supposed to rhyme not repeat themselves, sigel is the sickest at making one word rhyme with itself meaning like 4 different things.

sigel would be like
i aint playin with chicks
im playin with bricks
not only playin with them bricks, but playin with bricks

and he'd be clever enough to make each time mean something else

"I went against all odds and got a even steven" on Resurrection