Common-Be-CD-FLAC-2005-THEVOiD INT

                              DRIFT INTO THE VOID
 Info   
     Artist  | Common
     Title   | Be
     Genre   | Hip-Hop                              Format  | Album
     Source  | CD                                   Time    | 42:33
     Label   | Geffen Records                       Store   | 2005
     Catalog | B0004670-02                          Rip     | 2021
     Bitrate | 818 kbps                             Size    | 263.05 MB
     Freq    | 44.1 kHz                             Encoder | FLAC 1.3.1
 Tracks 
     01. Be (Intro)                                                  2:24
     02. The Corner (Feat. The Last Poets)                           3:45
     03. GO!                                                         3:44
     04. Faithful                                                    3:33
     05. Testify                                                     2:36
     06. Love Is                                                     4:10
     07. Chi-City                                                    3:27
     08. The Food (Live)                                             3:36
     09. Real People                                                 2:48
     10. They Say (Feat. Kanye West & John Legend)                   3:57
     11. It's Your World (Part 1 & 2)                                8:33
 Notes  
     Common has been one of the most highly influential figures in rap
     music, keeping the sophisticated lyrical technique and flowing
     syncopations of jazz-rap alive as commercial trends have threatened
     to obliterate the style's advancements. The Chicago MC's
     outward-looking, nimbly performed rhymes and political consciousness
     haven't always fit the fashions of rap trends, but his albums have
     consistently hit the Top Ten of the R&B/hip-hop chart and been
     praised by critics.
     Since achieving mainstream popularity with the gold-selling
     full-lengths Like Water for Chocolate (2000), Be (2005), and Finding
     Forever (2007), Common has juggled his recording career with a
     series of high-profile acting roles. This hasn't hindered the
     reception of his subsequent output, which includes Nobody's Smiling
     (2014) - his third Top Ten album - and A Beautiful Revolution, Pt. 1
     (2020). Common is a three-time Grammy winner for the Erykah Badu
     collaboration "Love of My Life (An Ode to Hip Hop)," the Kanye
     West-produced "Southside," and his and John Legend's "Glory," which
     also won an Academy Award.
     Electric Circus cost and won Common some fans. It was very
     exploratory, especially so for a rap album released in 2002,
     containing developments - some of which soared, some of which sank -
     that few longtime followers could have foreseen. Listeners either
     felt Common was picking up fresh, new inspirations, or that he was
     just being distracted by a whole lot of ill-fitting nonsense. With
     Be, it seems the MC has realized that not every album that's
     sprawling and eclectic is as good as Electric Ladyland or Songs in
     the Key of Life.
     More notably, he might've been struck with the fact that a high
     percentage of excellent albums are around 40 minutes in length and
     are built on a unified sound. 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 back-to-basics move. Kanye West and
     Dilla are key to the album's steadiness, rooting the sound in '70s
     soul and soul-jazz. 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.
     Even lead single "The Corner," heard well before Be's release, falls
     into the fabric of the album on first listen, as if that were where
     it belonged all along. 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. Be isn't likely to be referred to by
     anyone as groundbreaking, but it's one of Common's best, and it's
     also one of the most tightly constructed albums of any form within
     recent memory.
     All tracks produced by Kanye West.
     "Love Is" & "It's Your World (Part 1 & 2)" produced by Dilla.

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14M	01-common-be_(intro).flac
23M	02-common-the_corner_(feat._the_last_poets).flac
21M	03-common-go.flac
21M	04-common-faithful.flac
15M	05-common-testify.flac
25M	06-common-love_is.flac
22M	07-common-chi-city.flac
21M	08-common-the_food_(live).flac
18M	09-common-real_people.flac
23M	10-common-they_say_(feat._kanye_west_and_john_legend).flac
53M	11-common-its_your_world_(part_1_and_2).flac
252M	total