Common: "Like Water For Chocolate" vs "Be"

[JokerzWyld]

I can't be mad at anyone who chooses Like Water. That was arguably the beginning of the Soulquarian movement which was quite revolutionary.

 

[Lou Cypher]

Be by just a hair.

 

[achewon87]

Tough choice but Com + Dilla, Roots, QTip, D'Angelo FTW...

 

[rip.dilla]

Tough choice but Com + Dilla, Roots, QTip, D'Angelo FTW...

With Femi Kuti... the heir to the late great Fela

 

[grYmes]

Both albums are the shit, but since I bought Be the day it dropped that will be the tie breaker.

 

[5onblackhandside]

Both great albums, but I like the former more

 

[KneeGro_DuperMan]

Always liked Be more

 

[za'kiss]

Just proves how underrated Common is. How is he not top 5 or 10 with arguably 4 classics?

I gotta go with LWFC. Be is great, but LWFC got the replay value. Its musicality and lyrics just have more layers to it that you want to keep going back and study. Be is like a tight, masterfully well-executed 11 tracks of hip-hop perfection. No fat. You revisit it to admire its mastery of craft. But LWFC is timeless, ages like fine wine, in dusty crates stored away in the basement that needs to be re-opened every few years and explored again for its nuances and new flavors.

As far as who has the best lines, I still go LWFC. The intro on Be features a top 5 or 10 Common verse, but so does The 6th Sense, featuring one of the greatest Primo beats and one of the greatest rap songs of all time. Common blacked the fuck out on that shit:

"If revolution had a movie I'd be theme music

My music, you either fight, fuck, or dream to it

My life is one big rhyme, I try to scheme through it"

smh, that's just a choice quote. The entire verse is amazing. Someone explain to me how this nigga ain't top 10 DOA?

 

[vageneral08]

Be is flawless

 

[Go figure]

Kanye n Common performing The Food on Chappelle show had me so hyped for Be. I still think the live version>album version. The Corner felt so Chicago including the Intro n their videos. Its Your World put me in such a good mellow vibe it was a good time in Chicago when that album came out. Didnt even mention Chi City yet "they ask me where hip hop is goin, its Chicagoan/goin...its the city, the city yall"

There isnt a single track on that album i wasnt stuck on. Im not from the southside but that album captured it perfectly at the time n Common was finally getting some just due.

I gotta go back n listen to this shit props for the thread

 

[DR. JEK]

I pick BE overall even though 6th sense I my favorite Common song of all time. That and "The SunGod"

 

[TheGOAT]

I pick BE overall even though 6th sense I my favorite Common song of all time. That and "The SunGod"

The Light & 6th Sense prolly my 2 favorite Common songs.

Nag Champa up there too.

But Be is just amazing top to bottom.

LWFC just a lil too long its like 80mins compared to Be at about 45mins. Shoulda cut a few tracks to trim the fat.

 

[texas409]

BE and Finding Forever are personal classics to me I will put them two up against any classic album in history

 

[texas409]

I used to smash chicks to Finding Forever when I lived in Atl thats how soulful my nigga Common albums be lol

 

[Ounceman]

Don't want to take anything away from Be's greatness, but LWFC exemplified perfection. No album from Common other than LWFC gave me that feeling of where i can just put it on, let the shit ride, and vibeout while I'm smoking on a blunt. I remember listening to this in middle school and it made me realize I was a dilla fan before I was fully aware that I was one

 

[JokerzWyld]

Just proves how underrated Common is. How is he not top 5 or 10 with arguably 4 classics?

I gotta go with LWFC. Be is great, but LWFC got the replay value. Its musicality and lyrics just have more layers to it that you want to keep going back and study. Be is like a tight, masterfully well-executed 11 tracks of hip-hop perfection. No fat. You revisit it to admire its mastery of craft. But LWFC is timeless, ages like fine wine, in dusty crates stored away in the basement that needs to be re-opened every few years and explored again for its nuances and new flavors.

As far as who has the best lines, I still go LWFC. The intro on Be features a top 5 or 10 Common verse, but so does The 6th Sense, featuring one of the greatest Primo beats and one of the greatest rap songs of all time. Common blacked the fuck out on that shit:

"If revolution had a movie I'd be theme music

My music, you either fight, fuck, or dream to it

My life is one big rhyme, I try to scheme through it"

smh, that's just a choice quote. The entire verse is amazing. Someone explain to me how this nigga ain't top 10 DOA?

I can't really explain foolishness, but many of pleas copped by the anti-Common crowd is that he's boring. I can't tell people who or what their interests should be in but when I hear the same people claim that Jay's.4:44 is revolutionary because he dissed Eric Benet when Common said on "Faithful," "I know I'm bad, but not as bad as Eric Benet" in 2005, I see only hypocrisy.

Ignorance is a self compounding entity. The victims never know what it is they don't nor the value of that knowledge.

 

[metal face terrorist]

Why did Common diss Nas on "Chi City"?

 

[power_wisdom]

Why did Common diss Nas on "Chi City"?

How he do that?

 

[genocidecutter]

I've only heard Resurrection

 

[metal face terrorist]

Why did Common diss Nas on "Chi City"?

How he do that?

I rap with the passion of Christ, nigga cross me

Took it out of space and niggas thought they lost me

I'm back like a chiroprac' with b-boy survival rap

It ain't ninety-fo' Joe, we can't go back

The game need a makeover

My man retired, I'mma takeover

Tell these halftime niggas break's over

I'm raw, hustlas get your baking soda