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February 25, 2003

Ten Ways to Save Hip-Hop

Common dispenses some knowledge

Recordings and Reviews

Universal Mind Control

Huh? A Common album without a soul-jazz opener? Well, rap's deep thinker wanted to make club bangers. So he got the Neptunes to shape this sexed-up set. He's still history-minded; the title track is textbook Eighties electro. Elsewhere, he name-checks Fiona Apple (the bouncy "Make My Day," with Cee...

2008 RS: 3of 5 Stars

Finding Forever

2007

2005

Electric Circus

2002

Like Water For Chocolate

2000

One Day It'll All Make Sense

1997

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Common arrived on the hip-hop scene of the early-Nineties as Common Sense, a post-Native Tongues rapper who offered an alternative to the prevailing gangsta fare of contemporaries like Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre. With space-age effects, old-school beats, jazz- and funk-influenced musical bedding and lyrics that often come off like spoken-word poetry, he helped kick off an underground hip-hop movement ...

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