the best thing on the album...

Not sure how many folks actually went out of their way to listen to it. It wasn't awful but sort of offensively innocuous? A lot of the production was cool but Com's rhymes were predictable.

The trouble with intentionally making music that is supposed to speak to the times - whether imagined as protest music or as music to inspire - is that the likelihood of backsliding into the obvious, the cliched, the saccharine just explodes, exponentially. What is amazing is that a lot of Black America Again avoided that trap. This record does the opposite. That's not a Common problem, though, that's just a problem with how art works. You're always on the verge of being too on the nose.

We're seeing it a lot right now, too, though I'll hold back from naming names, lol.

Regardless, a lot of his rhyming here is just lazy and occasionally straight bad. It would take a lot more to write him off, he seems to work in cycles, but this might be his second-to-worst album if we're going primarily off lyrics.

-thebigfunk

~ i could still snort you under the table ~