"Be" is the latest release from the emcee Common. In 1992 he released his first single as Common Sense and ever since has been an icon in the underground hip hop scene. His song "I Used to Love H.E.R" was a huge success and is still listed in the best rap songs of all time. In more recent times he has shortened his name to Common and earned a Grammy nomination for his song "The Light". Common is back in 2005 with his album "Be". Most of the production for the album was done by Kanye West and the beats are all well put together and will keep your foot tapping. Overall, this album is one of the best from Common and certainly the best of his recent work. The magazine XXL has even given the album the status of "Classic", the first album the magazine has awarded this status to.
"I was rolling around, in my mind it occured
What if God was a Her?
Would I treat her the same?
Would I still be runnin' game on Her?
In what type of ways would I want Her?
Would I want her for her mind
Or her heavenly body
Couldn't be out here bogus
With someone so godly
If I was wit her would I still be wantin' my ex
The lies, the greed, the weed, the sex
Wouldn't be ashamed to give Her part of my check
Wearing a cross, I mean Her heart on my neck"
- Common “Faithful”
Those lyrics are interesting to me for several reasons. As someone who's studied a lot of medieval literature, I recognize some common themes (very bad pun there-couldn't resist). Medieval mystics like Julian of Norwich speculated on the feminine gender of God, and there's a long tradition of ecstatic religious love poetry, where spiritual love is mapped in physical terms. And of course, outside of the Christian tradition, there are many more examples. So it really picques my interest to hear Common.
Posted by: Tim G. at June 7, 2005 1:56 PMcommon sense. you know his raps come from deep within, cuz he has so much soul. and every album is the same in one way, DOPE, yet different, very different. theres one for every mood. if u want to chill out and relax...i say resurection or like water for chocolate would be the best to listen to. but if ur out partying, gettin ur freak on or whateva, be and one day it'll all make sense are the perfect choice...but i guess if ur not really sure about how your mood is, i suggest electric circus...its different. but still good. because its common. and to me, loving common, is just. common sense.
Posted by: Dee at July 22, 2005 12:15 AMI Really would like to come together in thst puzzle to complete the dieing of real concious hiphop please holla at me in spirit
Posted by: Antoine Struggle Davis at July 26, 2006 1:12 PMNIGGERS ARE AND WILL ALWAYS BE NIGGERS!!!!
The most important lesson, for those who have wit enough to learn it, is that niggers are by nature savages, and that nature cannot be changed by window-dressing or persiflage. No one doubts the unalterability of inherent instincts in other animals. Chimpanzees, for example, may be taught to wear clothing, understand commands, ride bicycles, smoke cigarettes, and even to act as nursemaids to children (if well paid for their services in bananas). They recognize that they must be obedient to their masters, but everyone knows that if bands of chimpanzees were free from control, they would behave with the ferocity you may have glimpsed for a moment or two if you watched the National Geographic's video-tape about them, filmed by Jane Goodall.
The simple fact is that all pure-blooded Congoids and most other niggers are innately savages and can never be anything else. First-generation mulattos, the result of miscegenation, a crime that would be stringently prohibited if tender-hearted humanitarians had any sense of pity, are almost invariably savages, but may inherit some White instincts and thus be condemned to suffer an incurable schizophrenia throughout their wretched lives. In quadroons occasionally and octoroons frequently the White elements may dominate and produce individuals capable of civilization instead of mimicking it when expedient. A few, indeed, are highly intelligent, as witness Lawrence Dennis, who was one of the victims of Franklin Roosevelt's premature attempt to begin ruling by terror in imitation of his model, Lenin, and his fellow conspirator, Stalin. A rational and compassionate American, however, would have thought it pathetic that so intelligent and courageous a man as Dennis had to be almost childishly proud that he could entertain acquaintances in the Harvard Club, aware, of course, of the indelible genetic blot on his being.
With the stated exceptions, niggers are savages and you should understand that you can never understand them, except as you understand cheetahs or cuttlefish, by observing their behavior. All missionaries and other gospel-venders pretend, and simple-minded ones actually believe, that niggers can be transformed by dousing them in holy water and giving them sips of Jesus-juice, but that is sheer nonsense, as Noë¬ Hunt puts succinctly, "A white man can no more think like a black than he can think like a bee."
Like all anthropoids, the savages can be taught patterns of behavior by persons who have authority over them, and, since they are capable of speech, they are more adaptable than chimpanzees. They can be taught to speak a recognizable English, wear currently fashionable clothes, drive automobiles, and perform almost any simple act that will win them a reward--even one that is deferred for some little time--and to avoid performing acts that will certainly be punished, sooner or later. (This is a marked difference from, e.g., dogs, who, as you know, must be rewarded or punished at the time of the act, for there is no way of communicating to them the meaning of a deferred reward or punishment. The same is true of chimpanzees.) Under competent supervision, niggers can perform useful work, and many can be taught to perform tasks that require some continuous attention and a fairly high degree of skill. Many, like all domesticated animals (especially dogs and horses), can become attached to their masters and take pride in serving them. And our enemies can teach them to yell for unearned rewards and privileges that White nitwits think themselves obliged to bestow on what they imagine the savages to be. And it is likely that, as has been verified by observation of American Indians, the Congoids' nervous systems perceive pain and pleasure in ways that differ greatly from the comparable reactions of Aryans.
Savages are incapable of civilization, for the same reason that tigers are incapable of becoming vegetarians. Savages, however, being innately treacherous, have a well developed capacity for simulation when it is to their advantage to employ it. Some anthropologists believe that the savages could, if left alone, evolve biologically and become capable of founding or inwardly appreciating a civilization in ten thousand years or so. Under coercion, they might develop a sense of civilization more quickly, perhaps in two or three thousand years.
If our race finds it profitable or otherwise worthwhile to impose a measure of civilization on savages, it can bestow on them great benefits, according to our scale of values. But you must always remember what Dr. Albert Schweitzer, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1952 for his efforts to improve conditions in Africa, learned by bitter experience and stated clearly in a memorable passage of which an American newspaper, if we had any instead of the Jews' liepapers, would continually remind its readers:
'I have given my life to try to alleviate suffering among Africans. There is something that white men who have lived there, as I have, must have learned and know: that those people are a sub-race.'
'They have neither the intellectual and mental nor the emotional abilities to equate themselves or share equally with white men in any of the functions of our civilization.
I have given my life to try to bring to them the advantages which our civilization must offer, but I have become well aware that we must preserve our status: whites are the superior, and they the inferior race. For whenever a white man seeks to live among them as their equal, they will destroy him and all his work.
And so for any lasting relationship or any benefit to this people, let white men from anywhere in the world who would come to help Africans remember that they must continually maintain this status: you are the master and they the inferiors, like children that you would help or teach.
Never fraternize with them or accept them as your social equals, or they will devour you, they will destroy you.'
The indisputable facts that Dr. Schweitzer courageously stated, sacrificing the favor he had enjoyed from our enemies and their dupes, were, of course, known to the World Destroyers when they began their gradual and cleverly accelerated work to stir up the savages by telling them they had "rights" they must assert, while at the same time paralyzing the minds of the American boobs by convincing them they had a Christian duty to deny themselves something they wanted in order to subsidize and pamper the "underprivileged" savages. In a nation that was already suffering from the egalitarian psychosis and had given the savages the "right" to vote, the work of calculated subversion was easily carried out and not even noticed by the boobs who are to be herded to extinction.
Posted by: FESTLER U FUCKS at February 4, 2007 10:54 AMFestler, go jump on the highway and get hit by an eighteen-wheeler, you poser. We all know that most (but not all) of the inhabitants among the 'white race' are fucktards anyway. (Proving yourself to be one of the "Most" in this case). If the blacks are such animals why was it that the whites were the ones invading countries and stealing these people? raping their women? Enslaving the so-called 'savages' who were undoubtedly living peacefully through their own customs in THEIR OWN LAND, and stealing them from their homes? Why did the whites kill off nearly every damn native american? Those people aren't 'native' Americans, they're AMERICAN while every crackerjack is European. If the white supremacy wants everyone to go back where they came from, Does that not include themselves as well? This "United States" isn't their home either. The real savages are the fucktards like Festler who's liberation comes from forced tactics. The only grandest Idea given is to kill his kind off and save those that convert from his and theirs stupidity.
Posted by: Power To The Peaceful at February 26, 2007 12:26 AMFESTLER FOR PRESIDENT!!!!
Posted by: Joe America at March 18, 2007 10:17 AMFESTLER FOR PRESIDENT!!!!
Posted by: Joe America at March 18, 2007 10:18 AMCom yo music is inspirational tn the lowly kids in zim
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Posted by: Josh Gallucci at November 9, 2010 6:24 AMur da man common.dont submite to faking
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