Common Sense - Resurrection

"Eating beef sometimes - I try to cut back on that shit."

Album: Resurrection [2nd album]
Recorded: Long Island, New York
Genre: Hip Hop, Jazz Rap, Midwest Hip Hop
Album Release: October 4th 1994
Single Release: April 4th 1995 [2nd single]
Length: 5:10
Producer: No I.D.
Cuts: Mista Sinister
Vocalist: Common [age 22]
Label: Relativity Records

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Extra P Remix

Charts, Streams & Sales

Spotify: Over 22 million
YouTube Music: Over 900 thousand

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• Released in the days when Common was known as Common Sense 'Resurrection' is a piano led track that displays the rappers intricate wordplay more than having a deeper meaning. It's hip hop in a pure form, rapping for rappings sake, before Common felt the need to put a message in his music. In time-honoured hip hop fashion the hook is scratched in by a DJ and serves to provide a break before the emcee starts rhyming again. 
  
  Even though 'Resurrection' is less of a conscious album than Common's later work it still features lines that indicate the rappers direction of travel, though the intent is to entertain instead of educate. One example is "I asked No for his I.D. and the judge thought there was two of me", although judges not being able tell the difference between two different black people isn't funny the delivery is meant to make you laugh. Here, however, the line is purely lyrical, whereas in his later efforts Common is talking from his own experience.
  
  
• The album 'Resurrection' is divided into two halves, East Side of Stony and West Side of Stony that refer to Stoney Avenue in South Chicago. 
  
  
• In the 90's, artists like Common, Outkast and The Roots were considered to be alternative hip hop because their music was different from the thugged out rap that dominated the charts. Whereas today, it's though to be a part of the core genre while the real alternative is abstract or experimental hip hop.

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