Comments on: COMMON Finding Forever

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Chris Brown - Forever Feat. JuK — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:00:11 +0000

Chris Brown - Forever Feat. JuK…

this song;
annoying/abnoxious(like it gets after a while)
but its such a good song!…

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By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 22:41:10 +0000

Oh, you again. You’re the dude who trashed Pharoahe Monch. Now you’re trashing Common, Mos Def, AND Talib Kweli? There’s obviously something wrong with you. Finding Forever may be one of Common’s worst albums… I’ll agree with that, but this is an ALBUM REVIEW, not a place for you to write your whack opinions of the artist. You spent way too much time talking shit about Com and not enough time explaining why you dislike the album. If you got some beef with the man, write him a letter, but don’t waste 75% of you ALBUM REVIEW trashing the artist.

Here’s what you should have done: Take out all the shit-talking and you’d have about a paragraph of actual usable material in which you’re completely entitled to your opinion. But then instead of posting it, you should have kept it to yourself in your “Asshole Archive” and then let someone else who actually knows about hip hop write the review for you.

By: ndudu

ndudu — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 15:07:18 +0000

let the dude be man, if he feels it time he wants to talk about things he’s never talked about before he shud man. i’ve never listened to the whole album myself but the way your critics are it’s really as if you’ve got some beef with the dude.oh by the wayi think the track “the people” is dope.

By: King Tim Dog The Second

King Tim Dog The Second — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 22:19:53 +0000

I’m glad some people in the hip hop community agree that Common is a piece of shit MC.

By: narry

narry — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 08:10:49 +0000

This is the worse review I’ve ever read

By: Conscious

Conscious — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 06:57:24 +0000

I can’t say I’m thrilled with the album myself. But hey I’m not gonna complain about it. I think the review was really harsh. I would give the album no more then 5 honestly though… And I think the whole paragraph about the GAP though it may have some relevance to the state of Common in terms of his career, I feel that it was off kilter. Focus on the breakdown of the album. There’s better ways to do a critique of this album without totally sounding like you have a personal thing against Common. Write an article on your opinion of his career if you’d like to do so. Stick to the album. As much as I’m unhappy with the record. I wouldn’t trash it either… But that’s just me…

By: U, Nubian Maybe?

U, Nubian Maybe? — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 22:58:17 +0000

I’m not so sure, it seemed more like this album should be titled Be and Be should have been titled Finding Forever. I feel that more than anything else on this album, he has just become very comfortable in just being and that’s what I think is the most memorable part of this album. It forsure aint one of Commeleon finest work and I can’t say I was truly excited about his experimenting with being a lyricist but I would not give this album anything less than a 7.0/10

Now all the Gap ad bashing just sounds like a backpacker taking the artists growth a little too personal. Common is one of the few artists in the musical world, let alone Hip-Hop, who can manage to juggle a honest rap career, do a Gap or RED commercial and not lose any integrity. I don’t really think anyone believes that Mr. Lynn has changed all that much just because of a few commercial appearances. As a true Com fan through and though, I was geeked to see him perform on New Years 06 and when he did those “Knowing is beautiful” commercials had me scanning BET waiting for them to come on just to hear some 30 seconds of spoken word.

The issue here is coming to accept that the man is just growing more and expanding as a human being, I still remember people making noise about how Nas had no consistency but I dont think anybody on these forums is ready to agree that I Am and Nastradamus were crap albums, just different. Than why aint Com aloud to experiment and try new things and just do what feels right to him? Hell, Image is a bitch, take it from an emcee and spoken word artist, it’s not becoming to have to wear two different hats to each occasion, one Soji fits all. Some days I feel like I feel to rock a Pirandello to a grimy local hip-hop show and other days just throw on a hoody to a mahogany tabled, candle burning spoken word gig and just Be… but here I am right where I started, Finding forever is just Becoming
So let the man Be…

-The Anuubian

By: Rami K

Rami K — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 21:09:35 +0000

I agree with this review fully, Common has slipped hard, and those of you that speak so highly of this album should go back and listen to his older music, then compare. The author here isn’t trying to discredit Common’s career as a hip hop artist at all, instead, he’s just making the simple point that Common is now washed up, he’s not what he once was. If you think that this album is “real Hip Hop” you’ve totally overlooked Common’s past albums at the height of his career, that, my friends, was true hip hop. This album does have 3-4 decent “sounding” tracks, but the lyrical content is only average..this album is like that one Auntie you have that’s pushing 45, and yet tries to act like she’s in her 20’s. Common went from “grown folks music”, to teeny bopper hip pop on this album.

By: Anon

Anon — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 15:47:21 +0000

In agreement with the review, Common has fallen to the wayside. One is not straying from “real hip-hop” to believe so. Other’s commenting that a hater of common would be into more of the “gansta” or “hard” rap… that’s not true. Many are looking for what Common used to provide, not this commercial washed out baby-boomer LP. Perhaps if the review didn’t spend so much time crucifying common for GAP ads and more time explaining exactly how the numbers for the review work out, his fans wouldn’t be so upset.