by Tolu Jegede
These lines, lifted from Common’s sixth studio album, Be, remind us about the danger of nostalgia. Ever since fans lauded Common’s second album, Resurrection, a classic, they have expected him to revert to his old self. Where is the Common Sense with the nimble tongue, double metaphors, and puns? Where is the emcee “whose rhymes be kickin like a brother’s breath be stinkin� Well, on his sixth album, he reminds folks he’s still here, still hungry, but he refuses to rest in his past. He chooses instead to just be.
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