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Common

Be


Hip Hop Double 180 Gram Vinyl reissue of this 2005 album 'Be' is highly concentrated containing 11 songs and involving two producers and a small number of guests It's a 180 degree turn from Electric Circus and in a bizarre way it's both a progression and a backtobasics move Kanye West and Dilla are key to the album's steadiness rooting the sound in '70s soul and souljazz That's no shakeup but the two producers deserve some form of award for stringing together a consistent sequence of productions that is never monotonous dull or all that flashy Lyrically Common comes back down to Earth the narratives are sharp as ever the gripes are more like observations than screeds and the eccentricities need to be teased out rather than swatted away

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