MuthaFunka said:

He's all over reviews like white on rice.

MsLegs said:

bsk3601 said:

Ah how cute. The heeled switch hitter in the UK is angry and trying to act like a big man by trying to curse me online. Switchhitter just save all that noise for one of your hags ( ms legs won't be one of them), put on your drag and heels for tonight show in the UK, and face it that you've made yourself look bad by logging in under multiple post and not standing up for yourself like a man. Why don't you just say fuck it and come out the closet like Elton and George Micheal and you'll save yourself alot of grieve and then you won't have to take your misery out on the Org, the Quake or other places on the net Switchhitter. Quit the fucking masquerade.
[Edited 8/9/07 11:08am]

It's easier to count the albums on Amazon he HASN'T reviewed.

bsk3601 said:

Why does it seem like LA Reid is behind MOST of these fuck-ups?

common is a useless artist.

his career went down the toilet years back

how he's just a sellout, modelling for gap and thinking he is some sort of great artist, when in reality he is crap.

if you want an artist who put meaning into his words, 2pac was probably the best.

Common hasn't even sold a million in the us.

he is a crap failure and belongs in the scrap heap.

dirtyman2005 said:

top ten reasons not to post or argue online #1

I was just sitting around thinking about that shit. This dude went from conscious rapper with a burgeoning career in the early to mid 90s, then Cube blew him out the water with WC and Mack 10 with the song "Westside Slaughterhouse" as a response to Common's "I Used to Love H.E.R.." (diss to the West, particularly gangsta rap), and then Common returned fire with the venomous "The Bitch In Yoo" but after that, Common kinda fizzled out.

He dropped the album "One Day It'll All Make Sense" in 97 to little fanfare. Again, critics liked it but not much of a following beyond that.

Then in 2000 he dropped "Like Water for Chocolate" and he made some noise with that (it went gold and was critically-acclaimed as well as commercially-acclaimed) and again yet again, he kinda faded out.

Then he started messing with Badu and he went BoHo with macrame hats and shit, and that got him attention for his style of dress rather than his career, which was waning more so at that point. He did the cut with Macy Gray "Ghetto Heaven" and he started to slowly shine again, also with the release of the critically-acclaimed "Electric Circus" but the sales didn't match "Chocolate".

But it wasn't until he got with Kanye and started to blew up to where he is now - movies and guest appearances here and there - he's the only rapper I recall that had a nearly dormant rap career and then came back to rise close to the top. He's the new "It" guy for rap and he's accessible for white America to embrace as well without the heat of the negative part of Hip Hop/Rap.

Now that's a comeback fo' yo ass.

MuthaFunka said:

exactly, you have a strong point here.

I was just sitting around thinking about that shit. This dude went from conscious rapper with a burgeoning career in the early to mid 90s, then Cube blew him out the water with WC and Mack 10 with the song "Westside Slaughterhouse" as a response to Common's "I Used to Love H.E.R.." (diss to the West, particularly gangsta rap), and then Common returned fire with the venomous "The Bitch In Yoo" but after that, Common kinda fizzled out.

missfee said:

But man, did he destroy Cube and Mack 10. He pulled Cube's card like no one before or since, and Cube is one of my favorite MCs of all time.

namepeace said:

Destroy? Nah - he ANNIHILATED them on that track!

MuthaFunka said:

No doubt

MsLegs said:

No one other than those kids in the UK have called out Com since.

namepeace said:

Yup!

I don't think Common went anywhere either. He's just finally getting the recognition he probably should've received a long time ago. He's a dope MC and he loves Prince too! Prince shouted him out at the Chicago theater at one of his gigs a few years back. It's probably a good thing that his popularity has grown slowly but surely instead of too quickly like some artists that fade as quickly as they've risen.

Why do people keep thinking I said Common was "gone"?

All I said was his career was nearly dormant and then Kanye helped him blowuptuate to where he is now. That was his comeback from a lull in his career.

MuthaFunka said:

Well, I think we're on the same page. He "came back" in the sense that he's delivering on his potential to sell records as a straight-up, legit MC.

namepeace said:

Bingo.