The perseverence of a rebel I drop heavier levels

[Ghost In The 'Lac]

The perseverence of a rebel I drop heavier levels
It's unseen or heard, a king with words
Can't knock the hustle, but I've seen street dreams deferred
Dark spots in my mind where the scene occured
Some say I'm too deep, I'm in too deep to sleep
Through me, Muhammed will forever speak
Greet brothers with handshakes in ghetto landscapes
Where a man is determined by how much a man make
Cop Cognacs and spit old raps with young cats
with cigarettes in their ear, niggerish they appear
Under the Fubu is a guru, that's untapped
Want to be in the rap race but ain't ran one lap
Ran so far from the streets that you can't come back
You tripping with nowhere to unpack, forgot that

"This is rap for real, something you feel"

In front of two-inch glass and Arabs I order fries
Inspiration when I write, I see my daughter's eyes
I'm the truth, across the table from corporate lies
Immortilized by the realness I bring to it
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
Through my shell, never knew what the divine would bring to it
I'd be lying if I said I didn't want millions
More than money saved, I wanna save children
Dealing with alcoholism and afrocentricity
A complex man drawn off of simplicity
Reality is frisking me
This industry will make you lose intensity
The Common Sense in me remembers the basement
I'm Morpheus in this hip-hop Matrix, exposing fake shit

"This is rap for real, something you feel"

Somedays I take the L to gel with the real world
Got on at 87th, stopped by this little girl
She recited raps, I forgot where they was from
In 'em, she was saying how she made brothers cum
I start thinking, how many souls hip-hop has affected
How many dead folks this art resurrected
How many nations this culture connected
Who am I to judge one's perspective?
Though some of that shit y'all pop true it, I ain't relating
If I don't like it, I don't like it, that don't mean that I'm hating
I just want to innovate and stimulate minds
Travel the world and penetrate the times
Escape through rhythms in search of peace and wisdom
Raps are smoke signals letting the streets know I'm with 'em
For now I appreciate this moment in time
Ball players and actors be knowing my rhymes, it's like





Truthfully I wanna rhyme like Common Sense.....

[claaa7]

the whole "Like Water For Chocolate" album is incredible from both a lyrical and production point of view. Common at his best and one of the best Dilla produced LP's imo (he laced 11 out of 15 songs - enough to make me call the album a Dilla production).

so many incredible moments on that album, plus the whole atmosphere and vibe of it is too brilliant to not play it front-to-back once you put it on. "Dooinit", "Heat", "The Light", "6th Sense", "A Film Called Pimp", "Nag Champa", "Thelonious", "Ghetto Heaven", "Song For Assata" - MASTERPIECE!

[Ghost In The 'Lac]

wordwordwordandword its a classic.

he just fuckin

blacked out on that 6th sense though. post modernist poetry pefectly intertwined with music on some bob dylan shit. soulquarians in that era were untouchable another group effort. alot of the tracks say produced by jay dee for the ummah i think Q tip/ali shaheed had a big role aswell on all those tracks. they were prolly all in the studio at the same time and jd took control of the drum work and soaked in all the creativeness juices around him no homo

i was able to buy this when I was 16 when it came out and grow up with it

i feel sorry for the people of the same age in these days and times having to go to the store and by a slaughterhouse CD as what they see as their "underground" release. times have changed!

[Emperor Les]

Too bad 97% of everything he spits on Ressurrection is garbage. If it weren't for the ill beats no one would care.

[KBOS]

Common is so fucking underrated if you ask me - niggaz don't give him enough credit he's spit some of the illest verses and hes one of a kind. Sure he fucks around with different styles, themes and ideas but to me he rarely comes wack and you know hes one of the few niggaz that keeps going hard and staying true to himself while being extremely successful. On wu-corp I think he gets overlooked cuz hes not a hardcore nigga.

[Ghost In The 'Lac]

On wu-corp I think he gets overlooked cuz hes not a hardcore nigga.

gotta be fucking kidding me right

have u seeen this place lately. its almost ANTI hardcore.

[KBOS]

^ Wasn't quite sure what you were talking about until I just opened a thread where niggas saying capital punishment sucked lol.

[angry!]

niggas that hate on common dont know how to identify a b-boy when they see one!!!!!!

i seen common freestyle and breakdance at his shows, hes always been dipped in the elements and the niggas set list is full of classics!!!!!!

Too bad 97% of everything he spits on Ressurrection is garbage. If it weren't for the ill beats no one would care.

thanks for exposing yourself as a fraudulent toy!!!!!! common on resurrection is one of the finest performances of the 90's top to bottom!!!!!!!!!! back your bullshit opinion up, post a garbage verse from resurrection if its 97 percent trash!!!!!!

the biggest misconception about common is that hes soft... far from it, the nigga will smack you in the face if you get out a line, and hell tell you this on record in his early material!!!!!!!

The Common Sense in me remembers the basement
I'm Morpheus in this hip-hop Matrix, exposing fake shit - what a closeout!!!!!!!!!

6th sense is an all time classic, preem and comm blessed it!!!!!!!!!!!

[claaa7]

alot of the tracks say produced by jay dee for the ummah i think Q tip/ali shaheed had a big role aswell on all those tracks. they were prolly all in the studio at the same time and jd took control of the drum work and soaked in all the creativeness juices around him no homo

i have to disagree here, all songs JD touched on here says "produced by The Soulquarian's Jay Dee for The Ummah" meaning produced by J Dilla as a representer of the production company The Ummah (correct me if i'm wrong). i'm pretty sure Q-Tip and Ali Shaheed Muhameed had nothing to do with this album at all, it was a Soulquarian's collabo (Questlove, James Poyser, Dilla, D'Angelo). also if you look at the credits most of the songs says that the music/beats were recorded @ Studio A in Detroit.

i was able to buy this when I was 16 when it came out and grow up with it

i feel sorry for the people of the same age in these days and times having to go to the store and by a slaughterhouse CD as what they see as their "underground" release. times have changed!

now THIS i agree with

[YungSunny]

Like water for chocolate is my ish. I always loved 6th sense and the light since they came out. Got like water for chocolate 2 years ago and loved it since.

[Ghost In The 'Lac]

i have to disagree here, all songs JD touched on here says "produced by The Soulquarian's Jay Dee for The Ummah" meaning produced by J Dilla as a representer of the production company The Ummah (correct me if i'm wrong). i'm pretty sure Q-Tip and Ali Shaheed Muhameed had nothing to do with this album at all, it was a Soulquarian's collabo (Questlove, James Poyser, Dilla, D'Angelo). also if you look at the credits most of the songs says that the music/beats were recorded @ Studio A in Detroit.

yeah that but i always found the sleeve notes confusing though but not forgetting The Ummah IS Qtip and A.S.M and J.d, idk why they need to mention the Ummah after everytime dilla was mentioned for? then some joints say souldquarians and co produced by jay dee some joint say produced by God lol

and according to my sleeve most nearly all of the songs its says were recorded in new york, electric lady studios. the only one at studio A was "Heat"

[claaa7]

yeah that but i always found the sleeve notes confusing though but not forgetting The Ummah IS Qtip and A.S.M and J.d, idk why they need to mention the Ummah after everytime dilla was mentioned for? then some joints say souldquarians and co produced by jay dee some joint say produced by God lol

yeah but The Ummah was also a production company and The Soulquarian's was the group he was producing with at the time. It would be like "Produced by Gravedigga'z The RZA for Wu-Tang Productions".

and according to my sleeve most nearly all of the songs its says were recorded in new york, electric lady studios. the only one at studio A was "Heat"

the actual songs were recorded at Electric Lady Studios (damn many great albums recorded in that studio man!!), but if you check closely you'll see that it first says "music recorded" @ Studio A, Dearborn, MI on more or less all the Dilla joints so i guess Dilla made the beats there and gave em to Common who recorded them at Electric Lady

[fatboybrandon]

My older cousin used to make fun of the revolutionary aspects of the video since it seemed like a change of direction for Common.

that's one of my favorite songs off Like Water For Chocolate. To me the only song closest to that raw sound brought by Premier is on Dooinit by Jay Dee, most the other songs are more laid back hip hop in comparison.

I uploaded a remix of The 6th Sense done by Presto Bag Of Trix from the Netherlands, it's about 5 years old but I stlll bang it on the regular.

[THE MASON]

6th Sense was one of the first hip hop tracks i ever heard.

i used to walk the hallways reciting that shit

[Dirty Knowledge]

Common is a legend.. always respected his story telling ability without having to curse / use those overused words n shit. He always painted a perfect picture.