Common is the reason I came to OKP. Like Water For Chocolate ran my life when I scooped it up. I viewed it almost as a double album with Voodoo.

I will listen to everything he makes at least once. But I am at the point where I don't expect to like anything he makes. Too much singing. The rapping isn't tight enough often enough. I generally like the music but too much of it still that 10:15 before a club is poppin and the DJ is just playing stuff to play it style music.

I'm not sure what he needs to do. The topics make sense for a grown man trying to do better but the energy of the delivery seems off. Or maybe it's just the music isn't challenging him anymore, he's not working, and we can hear it?

I vouch for everything he made up through Finding Forever. I've liked songs on almost everything since then. But still, everything he makes seems like a decline. Maybe it's me cuz I'm over here still listening to cussing and threats when I'm not wallowing in early 80s jheri curl roller skate jams.

>At the risk of stating the obvious lol. Cuz I'm a huge Common
>fan.
>
>But as someone mentioned above, it's moreso that his most
>recent work (save Black America Again) is just UBER bland. The
>production is uninspiring, his lyrics and flow aren't as sharp
>(save some moments here and there), etc. It's more
>"uninteresting" than it is bad.
>
>CIBAD - fine
>Resurrection - classic
>ODIAMS - classic
>LWFC - classic
>Electric Circus - really good
>Be - borderline classic
>Finding Forever - fine
>UMC - BAD
>TD/TB - pretty damn good
>Nobody's Smiling - boring, but fine
>Black America Again - really really good
>Let Love - boring, but fine
>
>
>>*throws smoke bomb and runs*
>>
>>this is from Wikipedia
>>
>>Studio albums
>>Can I Borrow a Dollar? (1992)
>>Resurrection (1994)
>>One Day It'll All Make Sense (1997)
>>Like Water for Chocolate (2000)
>>Electric Circus (2002)
>>Be (2005)
>>Finding Forever (2007)
>>Universal Mind Control (2008)
>>The Dreamer/The Believer (2011)
>>Nobody's Smiling (2014)
>>Black America Again (2016)
>>Let Love (2019)
>>
>>Collaborative albums
>>August Greene (with Robert Glasper and Karriem Riggins)
>>(2018)
>