Being a sensitive backpacker MC is one thing. But when you�re a teetotaling, incense-burning, crocheted-scarf-wearing vegetarian whose real name is Lonnie Lynn � well, let�s just say street cred isn�t an issue. Call him the hip-hop Stuart Smalley: �I just wanna be happy with being me,� Kanye�s boho homey once rapped. Awww �
Wussiest moment: Shortened his name from Common Sense in 1995 after being sued by a ska band with the same name. A ska band.

http://www.blender.com/guide/articles.aspx?ID=1990

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but fuck blender

wow i really take offense to that.. common is as cool as ice. these bunch of ignorant bastards dont know anything about real hip-hop.

Game Theory- Perfection in musical form

personally, i think it's kinda funny. i think his wussiest moment is later not admitting that the one line from that chi city song is dissing nas when it's ridiculously obvious.

“So back we go to these questions — friendship, character… ethics.”

Modern day Common yes, pre-Electric Circus definately not (Bitch In Yoo for example) He was just an intelligent brother who kept it real. Made some dope hip-hop. Now he's sorta lame

Meant to write ^that as a reply to the main thread. Yeah I agree w/what you said about the Nas diss. That shit is corny as hell too. Yo hustlers get your baking soda, I'm raw man.

I almost want to write to the editor ... but they'll still be stuck on ignorant

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"...winter days more likely that you notice heat/when im gone more likely that you notice me" Gift of Gab

let people explore their own ideas of style and thoughts without having to stamp them with broad, easy, lazy-minded labels?

http://www.blender.com/gallery_photos/Wusses/common.jpg

that pic is enough to get his name mentioned in a circle of

that is some pimp shit son.

...the fuck is wrong wit you??

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www.soundcloud.com/redesignyourmindmuzik

www.redesignyourmindmuzik.bandcamp.com/

www.youtube.com/user/thesirmittens

that is all.

blender is bullshit, but Common really isn't the artist he used to be. Mainstream crossovers suck

I don't see the big deal. It's not like music journalism is ever to be taken TOO seriously (even the holy grail, Rolling Stone, is to be taken with a grain of salt.) I think it's a funny list.

It's all done for entertaining toilet material folks. They're happy you're this riled up.

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i don't know, on some level you gotta laugh at this. i remember watching that dvd that came with Be, and there was a portion of it looking at his stylist/him changing his look/coming off like a bit of a wuss.
i like his music, and that's all that matters, but he does open himself up to some of the criticism he receives.

there comes a time in every mans life when he's gotta handle shit up on his own Can't depend on friends to help you in a squeeze, please they got problems of their own---slim kid3

it's a joke

the riled up response in here is just another example of why okayartist is the 'wussiest' forum at okp.

...but this is the man who penned "the bitch in yoo" and MURDERED ice cubes rap career for good ..u can never forget that

Yea it sucks. I think what happened was he stopped smoking weed & got soft. Not to be overly enthusiastic just b/c my user name is "blunted" or anything, but I've noticed that trend in hip-hop that dudes get corny after they don't smoke weed for a while & mention it negatively in their rhymes

You know how many people never even heard Bitch In Yoo?

Com is dope, but to say he killed Cube's rap career is nonsense. A great dis record, but it didn't do anything that Looters, Next Friday and Dangerous Ground had already started to do.

>...but this is the man who penned "the bitch in yoo" and
>MURDERED ice cubes rap career for good ..u can never forget
>that

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If Common is #18 then Kanye must make the top ten. I remember reading an article where he offered the journalist a manicure...

> If Common is #18 then Kanye must make the top ten. I remember reading an article where he offered the journalist a manicure...


*SMH with hands buried in it*

blender is far and away the worst music magazine. i seem to remember they trashed the Tipping Point hard and their reviews are always off (at least with hip hop). the sad part is their old EIC Andy Pemberton is over at Spin now making it garbage too

who do you think will be number one? bright eyes? morrissey?

nm

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"Cat's on here making blog posts
about not getting any pussy and
talking about not using washcloths
and too dumb to see the correlation"

that cat is from the south side of Chicago, yo...

"Is it not one father that all of us have? Is it not one God that has created us? Why is it that we deal treacherously with one another?" --Malachi 2:10

They could of kept it going. Like him squeaking like a girl in his early raps.

that squealin was the style back in the day yo...old school
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I can't believe people are taking this so seriously...

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this is 'okayartist'

they put paul mccartney and metallica up there with the wusses

angsty St. Anger album

Napster faceoff

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"Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?"
"I think so, Brain, but we're already naked." ~taking it back to the '96

That's retarded, Hip Hop is so fucked today that some of these people (Blender) who have no idea about Hip Hop think you gotta be on some thug shit to be a rapper, fuck all that, fuck Blender too.

http://www.myspace.com/blackmyth84
http://www.spitfirepoetrygroup.com/

BLENDER IS BULLSHITTIN AND SO ARE SOME OF YA'LL.

Somebody mentioned him having a squeeky voice back in the day. Does having a sqeeky or high voice make you soft. Tell that shit to Mike Tyson.

Another thing, just because ya'll think he licked a shot at Nas does not make it so. If he said he didn't, Maybe he didnt.

And another thing. The clothes are not what makes you hard. I'm from Chicago, and I've seen some pimps in some ridiculous looking outfits put the knuckle game down on some grown ass men.

What should Common be rockin the 50 Cent braw-Strap and be holdin a gun to your face to make him hard? Com is a grown man and as you get older YOU SHOULD, (though not everybody does) come into your own. Your own of way of thinking, your own way of acting, your own way of expressin yourselves. So what he aint braggin and makin murder shit up in every line. For those at Blender and those on here, call him a wuss to his face and see what happens. Matter fact, slap him too since he soo soft.

"Nuff respect to the projects, I'm ghost One Love"-Nas
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http://www.myspace.com/streetcinema

Fuck Blender. I'm tired of people who don't/can't understand that black male rappers don't have to hold their dicks, smoke and drink in public, etc. to be "real."

reading has OFFENDED me.

I like how nowadays since West has blown up, Common can be identified as "Kanye's boho homey," and not as a man who's been doin' his thing for years and who has helped further the evolution of true hip-hop. And who disses someone's name anyway? That's like callin' somebody out because of their birthday.

shit is funny

is it completely true? no, but its more of a half-truth

they dont know what they are talking. Considering that Common dropped all that incense burning bullshit long ago.

That's pretty wussy.

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Reality check: according to the 2000 census, there were more than 31,000 black physicians and surgeons, 33,000 black lawyers. There are about 1,400 black athletes playing professional basketball, football and baseball combined.

wussy to write children's books? I think that's more like genius. What a good way to reach out to children before they group up unenlightened and end up fronting on a LB show. Writing children's books is a great way for him to get some extra cash, write off some taxes, touch the youth, and use his already excellent creative outlet of wordplay on a whole new level. MAD props to brotha Com!!

ya ass quick fast if you talk shit.

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"F you Im better in tune with the Infinite"

he doesn't have to be the hardest dude, he also doesn't have to be the corniest. geez,some of you are really sensitive. hey, i like common, i like his music, he is a great performer, but dude is a little bit corny. i think it's kinda funny that no one defending common said anything in response to my post about him dissing nas and later not admitting it. that's pretty wussy, sorry.

“So back we go to these questions — friendship, character… ethics.”

from detza777

"Another thing, just because ya'll think he licked a shot at Nas does not make it so. If he said he didn't, Maybe he didnt."

the one coming the hardest for common said something about you nas claim

lol.

anyways it is very funny. you can make a movie on "wussy" things about common. so its a funny satire.

BUT if blender is actually serious with this then yeah smh at their ignorance.

ignorant or not its still funny.

"Wussiest moment: Writing an album�s worth of tunes about the struggles of being a love-starved middle-aged woman for the Waiting to Exhale soundtrack."

LMAO!

http://www.raindrophustla.com

that's good stuff...

“So back we go to these questions — friendship, character… ethics.”

Being an incoherent, mindless ad for commercial music releases is one thing. But when you're also a trite, patetic spinoff of a jv titty magazine designed specifically to be as daring as Wal*Mart will allow � let's just say a pultizer isn't an issue. Call them the literary Pauly Shore: "The Barbados native (Rihanna) teaches us how to use our own urine to stay alive on a deserted island." Maxim's retarded step cousin currently reads. Awww �
Most pathetic moment: Shit, wouldn't they have to have had a moment that is not pathetic to differentiate between them?

rick

http://www.blender.com/talk_blender/

and tell them bitches how you feel.














but FUCK blender tho.

get a fucking sense of humour

it's not that serious.

your avatar is fucking awesome. lesbians rule.

rick

Dudes acting like the editor of Blender screwed their mother or something

<<<< We're coming for the title!

http://thelistening.podomatic.com/

it was a SUGGESTION.
STFU sometimes and let people do what they wanna do.
including being mad.

getting upset by this post.

sensitive yatches.

common works out to richard simmons' "sweatin' to the oldies."

“So back we go to these questions — friendship, character… ethics.”

ha ha how in the fuck did timberlake get a pass on this wussies list? (Number 23) And the rest of his wussie group is on here, in my mind they are all equally pussies, in what in his career has he been a tough guy? did i miss something?

...I'm from harlem, the North-Side of Manhattan / We knock niggas out and make 'em bounce like Ricky Hatton - Immortal Technique

Touch This if you go to school in Illadelph: www.campusphilly.org

Can we get a Roots and De La Soul collab?

50 worst artists in music history:

http://www.blender.com/guide/articles.aspx?id=466

Check out:

Master P #48
Benzino #17
Latoya Jackson #11
Vanilla Ice #8
Insane Clown Posse #1

Color me badd #27 was the shit though i remember that song, shit was hot

...I'm from harlem, the North-Side of Manhattan / We knock niggas out and make 'em bounce like Ricky Hatton - Immortal Technique

Touch This if you go to school in Illadelph: www.campusphilly.org

Can we get a Roots and De La Soul collab?

if only for selling out janet jackson the way he did.

4 Boyz Next Door
Boyz II Men
Never mind the quasi-thuggish �z� in their name � these Philly melismaniacs are about as gangsta as crying in your pillow. Four early-�90s R&B heartthrobs with an image more wholesome than fortified milk, they crooned their way to more than 25 million in sales and set the stage for all the boy bands who followed.
Wussiest moment: The please-forgive-me-baby No. 1 smash �On Bended Knee,� which singlehandedly set men back at least 10 years


Blender on that bullish!!

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Com's bad side and have to face him on the mic? He did it before and he still would prolly roast damn near any of the hardest "hardcore" rappers out there.

Check these non-visual niggas
wit tapes and a portrait.
Flood the seminar
tryin to orbit this corporate
industry.
But what them niggas can't see
Must break thru like the Wu
unexpectedly.
Protect ya neck,
my sword still remains imperial.
Gza

eff the critics. I LOVE Common. just for that stab at Common i'll buy two more BE records!

-carlo

Yes, I agree he's lame these days, selling hats and was going to re-release Be - now what's that all about....used to...used to....used to..not what it seems......the icing on the cake was Rise - 8 July - London - an appearance.....an apology? don't know - I didn't turn up for his set cos I'm still wounded.....LONDON ROCKS....x

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"Being a sensitive backpacker MC is one thing. But when you�re a teetotaling, incense-burning, crocheted-scarf-wearing vegetarian whose real name is Lonnie Lynn � well, let�s just say street cred isn�t an issue"

what a sad sad thing to say......you're hung up with plastic image you fool......hip hop needs more of all that you mock...yes, I still defend....X

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i think we should remember that common beefed with ice cube.

Ice Cube.

shit. imagine. he would actually be someone that would worry me to you know, take it outside the record.

i don't know if yall got the word a while back but com bitched slapped the shit out a skinhead at a show at the house of blues in the chi. now he may rock that prep shit and be vegan and all that but the man is still pumpin fist when its that time.

cube never really was the badass he claimed to be.

“So back we go to these questions — friendship, character… ethics.”

Anybody remember "Are We There Yet?"

Mr. Common's Neigborhood.Television Pilot (?).
Wall to wall "Children's Books" on a children's hour.
"Wuss........" out til it run out.


~~~~~SONG OF SOLOMON~~~~~
" Milkman " /Common

Still waitnn.

NELLY: COME ON OVER TO (OUR ) PLACE

D'ANGELO: www.myspace.com/dangeloarcher <<< PUSH IT TO THE LEFT

the whole BE thing is mad corny.
its a good album, but there's wussy moments
all over it. and Finding Forever looks like the
sequel. c'mon with these album titles.
dude can still rap dope though.

>the whole BE thing is mad corny.
>its a good album, but there's wussy moments
>all over it. and Finding Forever looks like the

>sequel. c'mon with these album titles.
>dude can still rap dope though.

The only songs I have given a listen/via radio are
Water For Chocolate
The Corner
Testify (video-straight up Perry Mason scene)

What I wrote has absolutely nothing to do with "album titles".

Heck,that article brought to mind as turning it into a workable/positive show for children.
Common's children books as a part of the show.Parents could purchase.
If ever it happened, I would not expect it to be as I suggested.It was just "food for thought", nothing more.

The Book Song Of Solomon ,
IMHO, has Common written all over it as "MILKMAN".
"The "Testify" video raised the stakes.
On stage Common has a very HIGH energy level-what I saw on television.
It took that stamina for "Milkman" to basically deal with "Pilate" and then go on the search for answers.
A re-mix of "BagLady" in my opinion could work for the movie.
All too often what we are looking for is closer than we know.All we need to do is look within...whereever.

*******INDIANAPOLIS********
Gotta do it baby one more time.
Downtown-one more best walking, people pleasure
Akin To The French Quarter-Riding to Algiers in
NEW ORLEANS !

NELLY: COME ON OVER TO (OUR ) PLACE

D'ANGELO: www.myspace.com/dangeloarcher <<< PUSH IT TO THE LEFT

"turn ya head 'round/give me the cheddar
i'd rather be a lion for a day than a lamb who lives forever"--canibus (a damn shame)

HUH ? You tell me.
# 79. ..Come on with the album titles.
Everything else I wrote about Common
is nothing but a Wishlist for others (Industry) to take note.
I will move on, if it does not happen.
Tis easier to move on than to beg.
Right now, D'Angelo is singing "Let the music take your mind",
and I'm out and about to take him right on with me, as I go
"CRUSIN". Sing! D'Angelo.

NELLY: COME ON OVER TO (OUR ) PLACE

D'ANGELO: www.myspace.com/dangeloarcher <<< PUSH IT TO THE LEFT

BLENDER'S SUCH A HATA!!!
Hater Players!
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>but fuck blender



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All ima say is when Blender sell out concerts and stack paper the way Common did and does today then they can talk shit other than that they really don't have much to stand on as far as hip hop goes.

People...do not believe there can be tears between men. They think we are only playing at a game and that we do it to shock them.
James Baldwin

the real funny thing tho is that Com is a big ass dude who could whup most people's asses.

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wutever
!V.I.P!

I hate when people who aren't a part of hip-hop culture criticize it.

"the present is a gift, and I just wanna be.."-Common

For most, such as myself, this is bigger than a joke. This is an attempt to stereotype and put Black Men in their place in American and the image they should have to be considered men. Quit frankly, this type of propaganda makes me ill. We have the freedom of speech and the freedom to our opinions and the sad thing about it is that people abuse it, especially in this country. Black Men, in this society, are not allowed to be multi-dimensional. As soon as they don�t fit the mold of what their �image� is�i.e.�disrespectful, self-hating individuals, this society mocks and degrades them. Take it for a joke if you like. But if you read the descriptions for all the Black Men that made the list, you will see a common theme in all the descriptions.

Verses congratulating Common for being a gifted artist and honoring him for his children�s books, they attempt to take stabs at him. Verses respecting Babyface for being the talented songwriter that he is or top of being an excellent businessman, they attempt to poke holes at his character. Verses loving the collection of music that Boyz II Men have put forth and their legend regarding �boy bands�, they attempt to tear them down.

Classic case. Nonetheless.

He...he...ooowwwww!

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light.- Huey Newton

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
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First of all, I'm waving the same black fist you are. Yes, the media perpetuates black stereotypes and sells them to our children. And yes, that's fucked up.

None of the above, though, means Common is not a wuss. And that shit is funny.

Funniest of all, though, is how so many online pseudo-revolutionaries get all bent over a fuckin' white fashion mag. Who fuckin' cares of Todd Weinberger thinks Common is a wuss?

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That's a fun list. Kenny G and Common in the same list.

electric circus, like water for chocolate, one day it'll all make sense...
the whole kit & koboodle

Why can't you just listen to the man's music and leave it at that? So many of you get PERSONALLY offended. That shit is scary, man. I guess I just don't understand the whole OKP dude-groupie mentality.

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