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Music Class: Common - I Used To Love H.E.R. UPDATE: HOT 97 LIVE

Like Water for Chocolate is still one of my favorite albums. When I used to spend a lot of time in recording studios, this was the album I would play when I went to a new studio for the first time to get a feel for the room. I saw the Roots in '99 before this album dropped....for whatever reason, at the last minute Black Thought couldnt come so Com came instead...he did most of the LWFC album that no one had heard over Roots beats...I got a lot of that show on VHS somewhere. We interviewed him too...he was mad cool. This was also when I was first really gettin hip to Dilla...man....good times.
 
Just Dizle - Best of J. Dilla Pt. 3

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Mr Shakes, Erykah Badu - Didn't Cha Know, Macy Gray - I Try (Jay Dee Remix), J Dilla - Kalimba, Erykah Badu - Kiss Me On My Neck, Dwele - Cheap, Jay Dee - Fuck All Night, Jay Dee - Gobstopper, 1st Down - Front Street, J Dilla - Grind For Real, Ghostface Killah - Whip You With A Strap, Lucy Pearl - Without You (Jay Dee Remix), Carl Craig ft J Dilla - Make The World Go Round, J Dilla - Flyyy, Busta Rhymes - Keep It Moving, J Dilla - Dime Piece (Remix) ft Dwele, Illa J - Sounds Like Love, DJ Cam & Cameo - Love Junkee (Jay Dee Remix), Proof - Vibe Session, Baatin - Magic, Dabrye - Game Over ft Jay Dee & Phat Kat, Busta Rhymes - Still Shining, De La Soul - Stakes Is High (Alternate Remix), Little Indian - One Little Indian (Jay Dee Remix), Jaylib - Strapped ft Guilty Simpson, J Dilla - Grannie, J Dilla - See That Boy Fly ft Illa J & Cue D, Raekwon - 10 Bricks, J Dilla - Was Da Da Dang, Frank'n'Dank - Xotic Dancer ft Kardinal Offishall, J Dilla - Fire Wood Drumstix ft Doom, Spacek - Eve (Jay Dee Remix), Phife Dawg - Game Day, J Dilla - Over The Breaks, ASD - Komm Schon, Lawless Elements - Love ft J Dilla, A Tribe Called Quest - Motivators, Slum Village - Groove, Slum Village - Yes Ya'll, J Dilla - Red LIght ft J Davey, J Dilla - Nasty Ain't It, Jaylib - The Mission, Phat Kat - 1000 NIggaz ft Obie Trice Lee Louis La Peace, J Dilla - Dilla Bot vs The Hybrid, Common - In The Light ft Erykah Badu, Jaylib - Raw Addict, Oh No - MOve pt2 ft J Dilla & Roc C, J Dilla - 24k Rap ft Havoc, Slum Village - Let's Go, Jaylib - Military Minded, J Dilla & Dj Quik - Get Down Instrumental, J Dilla - Tha Shining, Slum Village - All Y'all, Sa-Ra Creative Partners - Thrilla, J Dilla - Pop Shit w Dracula, J Dilla - Breathe & Stop (Original instrumental), J DIlla - E=MC2 ft Common, Talib KWeli - Stand To The Side, J Dilla - Rico Suave Bossa Nova, Slum Village - Go Ladies, Royce Da 5'9" - Let's Grow, Jay Dee - You Hot, Four Tet - Serious As Life ft Guilty Simpson, Jay Dee - The $, Platinum Pied Pipers - Shotgun Intro, B.R. Gunna - Do Ya Thang, Slum Village - The Look Of Love Pt. 2, Phat Kat - Don't Nobody Care About Us, Jaylib - Ice ft Medaphoar, Jay Dee - Plastic Dreams (Original Mix)
 

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[Prod. by No I.D.]

[Hook]
Ghetto dreams
Ghetto ghetto dreams
Ghetto niggas' dreams
Ghetto ghetto dreams
Ghetto niggas' dreams
Ghetto dreams
Ghetto niggas' dreams
From the hood
[Verse 1: Common]
I want a bitch that look good and cook good
Cinderella fancy, but she still look hood
Butt naked in the kitchen flipping pancakes
Plus she trickin' off the dough that her man makes
We got our own handshake, her titties ain't fake
Fucking in the car cause we just can't wait
To get home, early in the morn' getting stoned
Pretty with her eyes low, money by her Bible
The type of bitch that big said he would die for
Is the type that I ride and stay alive for
Tats on her back, looking all tribal
She know shoes like she know survival
Well put together, she weathered the storm
Seen her brother die so forever she's strong
Hear Beyonce's song and she gotta perform
Whether fucking or fighting: we getting it on

[Hook]
Ghetto dreams
Ghetto ghetto dreams
Ghetto niggas' dreams
Ghetto ghetto dreams
Ghetto niggas' dreams
Ghetto dreams
Ghetto niggas' dreams
From the hood

[Verse 2: Common]
I don't even say shit, she can feel it
Eye talk's the realest, toenails acrylic
Ass is a weapon and it's hard to conceal it
Baby in one arm, the other is a skillet
Fried chicken, macaroni, raised on the back of Stony
Ghetto Prince, she's my Apollonia
Like chick that had the back of Tony, Montana
Reminded me a me of my, of my mama
Knowing the drama like she know when to joke
Steal a nigga's squares, not wanting me to smoke
I poke my head out of Benzes
My tweets is the streets that I know who my friends is
Endless love for the money, power and clothes
My ghetto housewife watch reality shows
She might get to snapping if the cabinets ain't closed
When the cameras start snapping, she's ready to pose

[Hook]
Ghetto dreams
Ghetto ghetto dreams
Ghetto niggas' dreams
Ghetto ghetto dreams
Ghetto niggas' dreams
Ghetto dreams
Ghetto niggas' dreams
From the hood

[Verse 3: Nas]
I notice all my flaws when it comes to writing rhymes
Subject matter be changing too quickly at times
So I keep it strictly 'bout dimes and stick to the story
Call me a pro in the pussy category
Had explicit experiences I shouldn't mention
For me, getting women turned from sport to addiction
Powerful women playing the roles of submission
Lawyers on leashes, congresswomen inflictin'
Pain onto my game, wanted and I'm sadistic
They liked it, they dyked it, devices twisted
'til I get a nice chick, to get me on some nice shit
Crib raising kids, Labrador behind the white fence
But I'm still single, looking for Cleopatra
African Queen, yo look at me, I'm a bachelor
Y'all niggas in trouble, keep your girls behind closed doors
Cross your fingers, be happy I haven't chose yours
She love glamour, bought her Vera Wang sandals
Valentino bags is my etiquette, my manors
Half hood half class, photographers' cameras
Caught us out there, the spotlight, hope she can handle this
She can join me, red carpet at my next non-profit
Events having sponsored by some alcohol product
Jumping out a Bentley with some fresh red bottoms
You live your dream with me when you were just in the projects

[Hook]
Ghetto dreams
Ghetto ghetto dreams
Ghetto niggas' dreams
Ghetto ghetto dreams
Ghetto niggas' dreams
Ghetto dreams
Ghetto niggas' dreams
From the hood
 

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[Intro]
(Yo man, brothers out here saying you should come on a gangsta tip, and other brothers out here saying you should come on a smooth tip. You know what, be yourself and just take it EZ, you know what I'm saying?)

[Verse 1]
I'm (easy!) easy, easy like Sunday morning
I can kick a stupid nervous joint when I'm yawning
Ahhh, Common's comin' with that old "oh excuse me"
Elizabeth, this is a big one, I mean a doozie
Doogie, Howser, cause see, I'm like Bowser
Kickin it with the sha-na-na-na, the t-shirt
And the trousers, how's the Family Ties?
I'm left with the gift, open it up, SURPRISE!
Big Mac, filet-o-fish, quarter pounder, french fries
Icy Coke, milkshake, sundaes and apple pies
And a cup? Nah, that's enough of that
I'm like an Indian giver, yo, give me that back!
Comin again hip-pop-pop-pop bring it back selector
We be the thoroughbred, so use your head, play the Trifecta
Common infector, smug MC, heads up!
Ya better duck cause muthafuck', it's me
[Now what's your name] Common
Come in again... Common
[How would you do it] Common
[Now how was she] Common, check it out!
Common is coming soon to a theater near you
To the UAC crew, enough respect due
Do I do, when I do, where I do
I do, do, do, yo I do it on the ease

[Verse 2]
I be kicking it with the doubly-dope rhymer
I'm trippin-and-dippin-and-slippin with the rhyme like Sliiiii-mer!
(Who ya gonna call?) Ghostbuster
I'm Petey Wheatstraw, and I'm just a
Hustler, I tried to scheme for a sec
But the record got wreck, tried to write a bad check
So I checked myself, before self got buck
Wild, tried to live how I had to fluctuate
To a state, and matriculate, yo I had to elevate
You can tell it's great, cause I'm state
Off 87, the South side of Chicago
Five-oh-one come follow me yo, everywhere that I go
And I know I ain't did nothing [hell naw]
The district think I be just a lil trick kid fronting
UAC got my back if there's any contact
In the back is a track from Immenslope soul cat
And it's phat, sorta like Oprah before she lost weight
I put my rhymes in good hands, hey like All State
And I'm all in a state of ease, utopia
I'm the Spiderman, givin bug MC's arachnaphobia
Holy-molia, it's totally awesome
The survey says, I gets more skins than Richard Dawson
But I won't catch mono or no type of disease
Cause when I flex, for sex, I do it on the ease (Yeah!)

[Interlude]
On the ease, (Check it out!) On the ease (How?)
On the ease, (Now here we go!) On the ease (Yeah!)
On the ease, (Check it out!) On the ease
(Take it EZ!)
(Yeah... In fact, it's feeling so good, let's take it all the way back to the '50s!
Sing it!)

[Verse 3]
A-wop-bop-a-loo-bop, a-lop-bam-boo
I'm a Dr. Pepper, wouldn't you like to be a Pepper
Two-steppin' through, yodel-le-hee-hoo!
Oui oui ma cherie, et comment allez vous?
(Contraire mon frere) Ok, truth or dare:
Is it true that I'm dope? (Yeahhhh!)
Yippedy yes y'all, here we go a loopedy loop de loo
A hubbeda hula hoop, a hubbeda alley oop to Coop
I gots the Magic, but I'm not a Laker
I'm shaking-and-baking and taking, cause I'm the back-board
Break her arm and feather, whipping the wonder when she activates
Hold up! My drawers are in my crack, [aight] pass the tape
Time to activate, and ejaculate
This is the period where I menstruate (What!?)
I meant to say demonstrate
I'm in a state, where I've had too much eight, ball
In the corner pocket, count em, buck it
A chicken, a finger-lickin with a finger-bone
C'mon I'm on a roll, stippedy stutter-roll
Owah-owah-owah-owah Ayatoll
Of Khomein, my domain is infinite
Ya got trouble, well you need to get some dick
And to the hip-hop shop, the future shock
When we started kickin on the one two, and ya don't stop
But the buck stops here buckaroo
Ya got your instructions, now you know what to do
Take it EZ!

(Man... Matter of fact, we're gonna take it EZ so straight, so nice, we're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna STOP!!!)
 
GODDAMN what a throwback... i remember when this tape came out...i spent my allowance to get it. I didnt have a tape player so I was going to buy one but I didn't have enough to get a good tape player and Commons tape so I got a cheap Coby from the corner store. Listen to that bitch twice before that shit ate my muthafuckin tape:angry::angry::angry:
 

​

[Produced by: No I.D.]

[Verse 1]
I stagger in the gatherin' possessed by a patter-in
That be scatterin'
Over the global, my vocals be travelin', unravelin' my abdomen
It's slime that's babblin' grammatics that are masculine
I grab the men, verbally badgering broads
I wish that Madeline was back on video LP
I went against all odds and got a even steven
Proceed to read and not believin' everything I'm readin'
But my brain was bleedin', needin' feedin', and exercise
I didn't seek the best of buys, it's a lie to textualize
I analyze where I rest my eyes
And chastise the best of guys with punchlines
I'm Nestle when it's crunch-time
For your mind like one time
If poetry was pussy I'd be sunshine
Cause I deliver like the Sun-Times
Confined in once-mines on dumb rhymes I combine
I'm hype like I'm unsigned, my diet I un-swine
Eating beef sometimes -- I try to cut back on that shit
This rap shit is truly outta control
My style is too developed to be arrested
It's the freestyle, so now it's out on parole
They tried to hold my soul in a holding cell so I would sell
I bonded with a break and had enough to make bail
A Mr. Meaner fell on his knee for the jury
I asked No for his ID and the judge thought there was two of me
Motion for a recess to retest my fingerprints
They relinquished Sense, cause I was guilty in a sense
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[Hook]

[Verse 2]
I ride the rhythm like a Schwinn bike when in dim light
I use insight to enlight devices hit the skin tight
Words of wisdom wail from my windpipe, imagination's in flight
I send light, like Ben's kite I've been bright
Get open like on gym nights and in fights I send rights
Don't hook with skins my friends like I spend nights up in dykes
In spite, I've been indicted as a freak of all trades
I got it made
I bathe in bass lines, rinse in riffs, dry in drums
Come from a tribe of bums hooked on Negro and mums
Had to halt with the malt liquor
Cause off the malt liquor, I fought niggas, now my speech and thoughts quicker
Cruising Southside streets with no heat and no sticker
UAC got my back and we don't get no thicker
UAC got my back and we don't get no thicker
UAC got my back and we don't, now check it
I'm a ho but not a ho nigga, ain't scared of no nigga
But it's my turn to go I gotta go
And I'm gone with the storm

[Hook]
 
therealjondoe said:
Classic and No I.D. is still dope
Click to expand...

its the DENSENESS of the rhymes that still mystify me

they packed SO MUCH into the lines..

it isn't bars...

that is poetry verses stanzas real actual storytelling and painting pictures with words.

It wasn't a CHORE or effort to listen

all it did was give the listened a GIFT

cause each and EVERY time you listened you were rewarded with yet ANOTHER gem.

and IF you just wanted to vibe out with the bear and flow?

that was fine...but IF you wanted to dig deeper?

That was there too.
 
playahaitian said:
its the DENSENESS of the rhymes that still mystify me

they packed SO MUCH into the lines..

it isn't bars...

that is poetry verses stanzas real actual storytelling and painting pictures with words.

It wasn't a CHORE or effort to listen

all it did was give the listened a GIFT

cause each and EVERY time you listened you were rewarded with yet ANOTHER gem.

and IF you just wanted to vibe out with the bear and flow?

that was fine...but IF you wanted to dig deeper?

That was there too.
Click to expand...
Yep
They don't make it like this anymore nor do these young cats have the attention span to feel it.
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resurrection_(Common_album)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resurrection_(Common_album)#Reception_and_aftermath

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_(rapper)#Discography

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_(rapper)




Resurrection is the second album by American rapper Common (at the time, who was known as Common Sense). It was released on October 25, 1994, by Relativity Records. The album received critical acclaim, but not a significant amount of mainstream attention. Resurrection was entirely produced by No I.D. (who also produced the bulk of Can I Borrow A Dollar?). In 1994, the record was originally rated 3.5 mics in The Source.[2] In 1998, the album was selected as one of The Source's 100 Best Rap Albums .[3]



Resurrection is frequently held to be a classic album by rap critics. This album signified both the arrival of a level of maturity in Common's work, and yet the end of his first phase, which was characterized by a more straightforward, and underground based sound. Subsequent albums by the rapper would see him delving into experimentation and themes such as love, which perhaps marks his second phase.[citation needed]


In the Rolling Stone review, Touré wrote of the album: "Resurrection belongs among the best recent hardcore albums: Illmatic, by Nas, Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), by Wu-Tang Clan, and Ready to Die, by the Notorious B.I.G.."[10] Despite the acclaim, the album sold poorly, barely charting inside of the Billboard 200. The album sold 2,000 copies and was dropped from the billboard charts.
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_I.D.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_I.D.#Production_discography

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_I.D.#Awards_and_nominations







Ernest Dion Wilson, professionally known as No I.D. (also known as Immenslope, born June 28, 1971),[4] is an American hip hop and R&B music producer from Chicago, Illinois. Wilson is also a disc jockey (DJ), music arranger and rapper, having released an album in 1997, titled Accept Your Own and Be Yourself (The Black Album), under Relativity Records. He is perhaps best known for his early work with Chicago-based rapper Common. He has since become a heavily sought-out and high-profile producer, producing hit singles such as "Smile" by G-Unit, "Outta My System" and "Let Me Hold You" by Bow Wow, "Heartless" by Kanye West, "D.O.A." by Jay Z and "My Last" by Big Sean.

Wilson, who has served as a musical mentor for several artists, such as Kanye West, is considered "The Godfather of Chicago hip hop".[5][6] Wilson was once president of West's GOOD Music record company and although he would resign from that position, he stayed contracted as an in-house producer. In June 2011, Wilson announced he formed the supergroup Cocaine 80s, alongside Common and several other artists. In August 2011, Wilson became the Executive Vice President of A&R for Def Jam Recordings. He subsequently launched his own record label imprint, ARTium Recordings. He is currently the Executive Vice President and Head of Creative at Def Jam Recordings.
 

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