Lothan said:

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"Can i borrow a dolla"

MuthaFunka said:

Common did not start off popular, go underground and then do a resurgence or ressurection. Hell, if he were truly popular now, this last album surely would have sold more than 150K+.

Lothan said:

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"Can i borrow a dolla"

IAintTheOne said:

Exactamundo. That was mainstream before he dropped "Resurrection."

MuthaFunka said:

Common did not start off popular, go underground and then do a resurgence or ressurection. Hell, if he were truly popular now, this last album surely would have sold more than 150K+.

Lothan said:

The feud with Cube when Com dropped "I Used to Love H.E.R." - That put him in the limelight. Cube was mainstream and the battle with Cube made Com mainstream at that point.

Lothan said:

The feud with Cube when Com dropped "I Used to Love H.E.R." - That put him in the limelight. Cube was mainstream and the battle with Cube made Com mainstream at that point.

Lothan said:

You tell 'em Lothan, baby


^^ tell the truth, you loved that significant contribution to what you just said didn't you... DIDN'T YOU!!?!?!?!???!

MuthaFunka said:

The feud with Com definitely gave him some shine and got him some play on Rap City and Video Vibrations. But if you asked anyone who got their hip-hop from MTV (mass appeal) about the beef with Common, they'd be like "Who?"

Janfriend said:

But that's just it, he started off Overground () and then his fame went underground and now it's above ground once again and it hasn't been higher.

MuthaFunka said:

Resurrection?.... Mainstream? heyul nah.... "Book of Life" is far from a mainstream cut nor is that album.... its a classic in my eyes

IAintTheOne said:

Nope. Never said the album was mainstream, just the single "I Used to Love H.E.R." was mainstream. Remember, for those that aren't familiar with that cut, that was Com's response to how the West Coast was "pimpin' hip hop and turning it gangsta and ghetto. That was a very mainstream cut.

MuthaFunka said:

The feud with Com definitely gave him some shine and got him some play on Rap City and Video Vibrations. But if you asked anyone who got their hip-hop from MTV (mass appeal) about the beef with Common, they'd be like "Who?"

MuthaFunka said:

Limelight? A little. Did not translate to sales. Mainstream? Hell no. Unfortunately, it was his single The Light, that brought him into popularity. Hopefully, it brought new fans for him.

bsk3601 said:

If you asked them BACK THEN, then almost all of them would say "Yeah! We remember that beef!" because that's when the East/West wars were starting to rage, and then Pac/Snoop/Suge blew it off the lid.

How come y'all aint up on all of this? Are some of y'all that young or too old to remember that far back?

bsk3601 said:

Yep.

No disrespect, Mutha, but I ge the sense that you are a true hip-hop head and to those of us who truly are, yeah, maybe Common was up there for a minute and appeared to fall off the radar. I'm in Chicago though, and we'd hear him all the time.

MuthaFunka said:

Oh, okay. That wasn't the impression I got with what you said up top. I can agree the cut was mainstream, it was the first time I had heard of Common Sense.

Lothan said:

Right, and that was my point I was trying to get across.

MuthaFunka said:

But we are up on that but, from your initial post, you made it seem like Com was a full on celebrity that fell off and had a comeback.

MuthaFunka said:

See, we can get along.

Lothan said:

I never knew we weren't

MuthaFunka said:

Well, there was a monkeywrench thrown in the program a few posts back.

Lothan said:

Nah I never gave the impression he was a full-on celeb, just that he simply "fell off" and if you look at where he's at now, it's basically a great comeback.

MuthaFunka said:

Even going with that logic that he fell off... I mean Resurrection as great as it is didn't take the hip-hop world by storm. If you speaking going by mainstream cuts, then I could argue that each album since Resurrection had a mainstream cut with popular appeal.

Restrospect For Life, The Light, Come Close, and Go

I guess I'm not seeing where the "Common fell off" factor comes into play and how the comeback was staged. His career just seem like it has continually progressed until he finally achieved a # 1 album in a universal climate of dismal sales.
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People don't seem to know Common's old label MCA folded 3 months after Electric Circus dropped, stopping all promotion of that project.

Cinnie said:

Which also led to unreleasing of Cherokee's artistic gem "Soul Parade". One of the best Soul albums never heard.

MuthaFunka said:

Cherokee was scheduled for release twice. On RCA (before it folded) and Arista (who dropped her like a safe from a 50 ft. building) But it's definitely a shame that album wasn't released. Cherokee had enough buzz from her GAP/ACDC/Back in Black commercial to green light that album. Soul Parade still gets regular rotation from me.

bsk3601 said:

You just became one my bestest friends for knowing about all that!

Ubelievable album! It's a crime she has to bootleg her OWN album to sell it. Record companies fucking suck!