Wow thank you guys for all the love. I really appreciate it.

I’m just going to go ahead and post the discography ranking tonight and do the rest tomorrow since I want everything to have a certain moment.

#14- Universal Mind Control (2008)

#13- Can I Borrow A Dollar? (1992)

#12- August Greene (2018)

#11- A Beautiful Revolution 1 & 2 (2020/2021)

#10- Nobody’s Smiling (2014)

#9- Let Love (2019)

#8- Finding Forever (2007)

#7- Black America Again (2016)

#6- Electric Circus (2002)

#5- Resurrection (1994)

#4- The Dreamer/The Believer (2011)

#3- One Day It’ll All Make Sense (1997)

#2- Like Water For Chocolate (2000)

#1- Be (2005)

End of an era really

mannnnn

Music hits so good right here 🫀

Bump

Be
Finding Forever
The Dreamer Believer
LWFC
ODIAMS
Resurrection
UMC

I gotta peep the rest

If I said an artist I never listened to wholes discography, some niggas may see me differently

There’s definitely some gems on his last few. Hard to compete with some of the albums you listed though.

mind control being waaaayyy at the bottom doesnt surprise me lmao

i remember when it came out i was disappointed

best song on there is Inhale

who

For me it was a five out of 10. There were some great songs on it and I think it could’ve worked. But I don’t think enough time or thought was put into it overall.

Just an experiment that didn’t work. Instead of mulling over it like chance the rapper or something, he just kept it moving gracefully and dropped a fantastic album after that.

@op how do you want Common to move from here? His last 5 albums were with Karriem Riggins. While they made nothing but quality together I'm bored. Hope he lays off the live instruments and gets on raw boom bap prod again.

Something completely different. He’s become complacent musically and at this point in his career, he’s still dropping quality but as you said, it’s getting boring and formulatic.

I’d like to see Common get back with No I.D honestly and do something more in vein of Nobody’s Smiling. Where it’s more of a mainstream take but it’s still true to Commons character. I think that switch up was good for him. And I think he still has it in him.

Yeah another one with No I.D. would be dope. Ideally Kanye but we know how busy his schedule is.

An album with Hit Boy would be a banger. The cool thing about Hit Boy imo is he goes back and studies the artist's greatest moments and emulates them + adds something new that the artist has never tried before.

Ye and him I just don’t think are on that wavelength anymore. I think there’s a reason why Ye didn’t produce on The Dreamer/The Believer and it wasn’t simply because he wasn’t available. Any album they do together would automatically be compared to “Be” and that’s not fair.

Hit-Boy would definitely be cool for sure and after hearing “Magic” I think Common would definitely work over something like that.

Ultimately at this point, I don’t even know if Common has any interest in going outside of his box. He’s made 5 albums all with a pretty similar sound (Aside from Let Love, which was his take on classic R&B with hip-hop)

Last year he said he regrets not having done another album with Kanye during that timeframe in 2005-2007 but also doesn't rule out the possibility of that in the future

So it's all up to Ye I think, Idk when was the last time they hung out together, I would've loved a Common feat on Jesus Is King or DONDA

S***, Kanye said on Drink Champs that Common is "a thousand times better rapper" than Talib

Obviously that was just Ye’s response to Talib gossiping about him, but I mean he’s not really wrong. Common at his peak can f*** with the best. He’s not to be messed with as a rapper. He’s obviously very very respected by the community for a reason. He put In the work.

I definitely like Common more than Talib as well but true lol

Com also has that street side to him, he's less backpacker-y than Talib IMO

Don’t get me wrong, Common has had some f***ing corny s*** in the past. His first album, parts of Resurrection, UMC etc.

But I think ultimately above all, he’s just a honest dude. He has a lot of integrity.

Common would've spitted on Jesus Is King

Idk how I didn't think of that he's a whole preacher

Top 15 favorite Common songs I have heard recently

#15- Start The Show from Finding Forever

#14- The Questions from Like Water For Chocolate

#13- Windows from The Dreamer/The Believer

#12- Aquarius from Electric Circus

#11- Rewind That from Nobody’s Smiling

#10- U, Black Maybe from Finding Forever

#9- Show Me That You Love from Let Love

#8- Love Is… from Be

#7- Between Me, You & Liberation from Electric Circus

#6- I Used To Love H.E.R from Resurrection

#5- A Song For Assata from Like Water For Chocolate

#4- Dooinit from Like Water For Chocolate

#3- Faithful from Be

#2- The Light from Like Water For Chocolate

#1 Retrospect For Life from One Day It’ll All Make Sense