However, the quality of the work-kept at a potent dozen tracks- relegates such a critique to nitpicking.Įvery song on The Dreamer/The Believer succeeds off the strength of Common and No I.D.’s seasoned chemistry. But working off a blueprint, no matter how tried and true, can lend to talk of complacency. There is the song about bungled love (“Lovin’ I Lost”), the ditty about hope (“The Dreamer”) and of course, Pops gets yet another album closer (“Pops Belief”). Particularly on “Sweet” where he takes shots at no one in particular, unless it applies, with pointed bars like “I’m the franchise so I rock my own chain/No I(D) said give ‘em that ’80s cocaine/Something raw something pure so I stayed in that vein.” The rhymes skills are also thoroughly on display on “Raw (How Ya Like It)” with a bluesy guitar riff assisting Com’s tales of a bachelor on the prowl: “She all couture, in her Tom Ford/Security guard let me in cause I’m lord/of finesse, the under, the rings, the dress/Code is to always stay fresh/Aware of her chest cause I stay abreast/she was extra cold, I’m here to decongest.”įresh rhymes are a given on Common albums and he also hits all his thematic hallmarks. While No I.D.’s soundbeds hold him down, at many points it sounds like Common is spittin’ with an Everest sized chip on his shoulder.
Shuffling drums hug a soulful groove on the reflective “Windows,” lush strings permeate the righteous ruminations of “Gold” and gentle keys anchor the happy go lucky “Celebrate.”
The current Def Jam Record exec provides Common with a diverse medley of grooves to lay into with his rhymes. In case you are blissfully ignorant about an album called Resurrection, or contemporary rap joints from Big Sean ( “My Last” ) and The Throne (“Primetime”), you know No I.D. Let’s get it out the way although “G.O.O.D Music” is still fam, Kanye West is not on the album. Linking up once again with No I.D., who handles all the production, Common finds himself comfortably doing what he does: Hip Hop. While 2008’s Universal Mind Control was coolly received, the discerning masses will surely embrace Com’s latest project, The Dreamer/The Believer. You should know the routine after dropping an album that doesn’t resonate with the public as expected (see: Electric Circus), the Chicago rhyme veteran returns triumphantly with, yeah, a classic (think: Be).
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