>I recently tuned into Kanye, John Legend, Common, and Kweli
>on AOL music, pre-grammy type shit...The Video is dope, for
>ya'll that haven't checked it out, you should...but what
>I've been thinking about is when common came out to do his
>new single Corners he said "I'm back muthafucka's...." hmmm,
>I started thinking to myself, why is one of the most
>respected MC of our time yellin' that, like he's been gone
>for a minute, or has been outta the loop...Do you feel
>Common may believe after he released Electric Circus he lost
>some of his hardcore fan base, his RESURRECTION Fanbase, the
>cats that grew up with the common that appealed more to the
>streets than to experimental hip hop...? I myself enjoyed
>electric circus, and thought it was a bold move that needed
>to be made in hip hop, but i do feel it def lacked what
>'CORNERS' is providing, takin' it back to the street corner,
>where he did not take it on Electric...I'm just tryin to get
>in depth with what ya'll think the new album is gonna be
>like...cause I know I missed the street appeal that was
>always present on every album cept' for E.C...and I really
>felt like he wanted to let cats know that he's back to what
>he perfected on his previous albums...street poetry, that he
>didn't forget about he can verbally kill most MC's these
>days...is this album a rebirth?
>
>
>or am I fucking crazy?


or maybe your just reading too much into it and Common was just talkin about being back after performing Get Em High, considering he elft the stage to let Kweli do his thing on "Get By"