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COMMON "Be" Reviews
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AZRating: 7.3
Users rating: 9.8 |
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Release: 23 May 2005
Label: Geffen
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| PitchFork |
Rating: 8.6 |
Common, at the near-ancient hip-hop age of 33, refreshingly looks to generations both past and future for the answers to the big questions he's searching for on Be.
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| The Onion A.V. Club |
Rating: 8.0 |
After blasting off into outer space with Electric Circus, Common returns to more solid ground with Be.
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| PrefixMag |
Rating: 8.0 |
The thirty-second bass line at the beginning of Be is a statement. Keep it simple. Keep it organic. Keep it real
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| ShakingThrough |
Rating: 7.0 |
Perhaps Common wanted to shake up the effortless vibe, but it definitely throws off the warm consistency present throughout. Be won't win many points for daring, but in terms of user-friendly hip-hop charged by a refreshingly positive undercurrent, it more than hits its hard-to-miss mark
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| Dotmusic |
Rating: 6.0 |
Not quite the record that many were hoping to result from such an illustrious pairing.
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| PasteMagazine |
Rating: 6.0 |
A collaboration with fellow South-sider Kanye and Detroit representative Jay Dee, Common finds himself hitting a stride not seen since his underground staple Resurrection. The soul and jazz-loop landscapes the producers set Common against highlight his classic, laidback flow, and the rapper answers with Olympic performances like the playful "The Food" and the percussive "Corners"
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| StylusMagazine |
Rating: 5.8 |
Common is still a fine, sweetly hypnotic lyricist, and Be is a serviceable piece of art when compared to whatever happens to be near the top of Direct Effect this week
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Users comments
| ryan |
Rating: 10.0 |
the best soulful album of all time...lyrics were touching, deep, i listened to it through 10 times stragiht, and everytime i found something new within the poetry |
| adam |
Rating: 9.0 |
common is def. one of the true hip hop artists left. lyrically he is as good as anyone and deserve more credit then he gets. the album is real and probably the best cd i bought that year.... who ever doesnt have it should pick up a copy |
| ray |
Rating: 10.0 |
Common's album was one of the most inspiring albums i have ever heard in my life. Common is bringing hip-hop out of its dark era back into the soulfulness it once was. |
| Tray |
Rating: 10.0 |
Dis Album is real soulful && hip-hop. You should listen to tha wordz he is sayin. Dats sum true stuff. His lyrics will see how people have problemz too. So pick up dis album. He is real talented && soulfulness. |
| lulu |
Rating: 10.0 |
I liked it alot it was somethind that everyone should have |
| lumper |
Rating: 10.0 |
i would put this on one of the best hip hop cds of all time i don't know how i didn't hear of him a lot beofre this cd... it was truely amazing |
| Tha boi |
Rating: 10.0 |
Yeah he verbly acheived his goal as a hip hop masier but when he came out he was talking bout rims and shit but years of maturing and shedding that gangsta mold to let other hip hop fans mature with him on the contray this album is a hip hop master piece he is a hip hop under dog I guess thats what happens when you stop talking bout stupid shit and start uplifting yo people good shit common good shit.CHi-town |
| ~Jolumar~ |
Rating: 10.0 |
Common is the Definition of Hip Hop!
He is the Lyrical Relief of "Todays Lyricists" !
This Album Overall is What makes me proud of hiphop...! Especially with Kanye's Help , this album "had me at hello"..
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| Catastrophe |
Rating: 10.0 |
Common Sense is the realest out there next to Em n Jay-Z. He is one of the best poets I have ever heard and the way he displays it in hip hop is amazing and Smoking Aces was the shit |
| fresno california |
Rating: 10.0 |
one of the best cd's ever. The intracacies in his lyrics are something that is real hard to find in rappers now. he is very talented. |
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