This is probably one of my favourite hip hop albums as a quality over quantity kinda guy. Just so consistent/concise, not to mention the Kanye production output on this project is so underrated.
Oh yeah this is exactly what we needed. I adore this album, to me it encapsulates the essence of hip hop as a whole, and especially of the 2000s. Common is a phenomal mc, and of course the Kanye production needs no introduction. Together, they created an album that’s always enjoyable and inspiring. Some of my favorites have to be the intro, GO!, faithful, love is, and the fantastic outro. By the way, I absolutely agree that “Be” is the answer to “Why are we here”. You explained it pretty well at the start.
Common really is an "ahead of their time" artist. He got clowned on so hard for being a conscious rapper talking about things a lot of people beg to hear more of in rap and hip-hop as time went on. While I wouldn't say he's top 10 he's an amazing underrated artist that helped pave the way for a lot of amazing contemporary artists.
Boy lemme tell you, I am passionate about some Common. This is just _one_ of his classics, and a later one for him. Resurrection is a landmark record of 90s hip hop, and Like Water for Chocolate is a sprawling magnum opus produced almost entirely by J Dilla. The man is goated, probably even before he dropped Be.
This album to me literally sounds like Chicago, through and through. Reminds me of home every time I hear it and just gives great vibes on a warm beautiful summer day or a cold chicago winter night!
Kanye's production on this album is why I can never ever deny that he is a musical genius... pretty funny that a lot people will never hear or know of Kanye's greatness when he was coming up
@@bobthepoppop Literally unmatched. Might sound a little dumb, but I think people would have a much better understanding of Kanye if they heard his music/production from this era
Also I’m glad you’re seeing how many gifts Kanye has brought to the world. So many other artist’ best work is produced by Kanye. He shaped some of the best sounds of our generation
i’ve never heard anyone talk about it, and i can guarantee if i ask my friends if they know Be by Common they will have no clue what i’m on about i honestly don’t know why this stuff is so underrated and all the mainstream stuff has nothing on it
@@samjg6It's not underrated, I'm sick of people misusing this word ffs. The people that know about this album rate it VERY highly, it's just unknown to most people.
@@ShwetabhJha hey mama diamonds from sierra leone and we major are all much more detailed and emotional beats. this album is classic hiphop with looping samples and catchy drums. LR is levels above this
Genuinely one of the GREATEST records ever. Kanye’s greatest contribution outside his solo work! Commons Magnum Opus. It’s Your World & The Intro are my favorite tracks (Be), “You are HUMAN BEINGS… not human doing” - Zo Williams
Replayed the album recently and couldn’t stop going back to it. What a comeback album - D’Angelo didn’t miss a beat at all and made something that felt so forward-thinking and creative too.
How you feel about “gangster rap” is how a lot of us used to feel. Especially how right after preceded the bling era which (very fun in its own right) was just a lot of unlyrical introspective club music that seemed to be taking over hip hop. In 2007 Album called Below the Heavens by Blu and Exile came out which was a breath of fresh air because it was a west coast young kid who was arguably the most introspective rapper to come out at the time but wasn’t removed from street life and could still spit. It was also at the beginning of the blog era which is the reason hip hop review and discussion channels like Dead End Hip Hop n Fantano exist.
LETS GOOOOOOOOOO you’re hitting a great stride of albums that I would qualify as the tier below classics. My favorite tier of hip hop, truthfully. All love Bob thank you for the content
Your dialogue before the album started and then your reaction to the intro was so exciting to watch knowing you understood Commons assignment 😂😂😂😂This album is a great ride. The songs alone are so incomplete without the whole set.
Just want to throw this out there. Seeing you light up to the experience of hearing Be for the first time, really put a smile on my face. That was genuinely beautiful :)
Personally, my favorite Kanye produced album outside of his own discography. You know this album will take you on a special journey just after hearing the first few seconds of Be (Intro) which is easily one of the best openers in hip-hop history. Common's elite and deep yet easy to understand lyricism, Kanye at the peak of his soul sampling era and Dilla's amazing contributions as well make up for a classic album that will live on forever. This album feels like acceptance, love and positivity yet it never fails to be real and show the truth of the matter with life not always being perfect even though you just wish to 'Be'.
One of the best "conscious rap" albums out there. Where Kanye and Common bring the golden era sound back in a time where 50 Cent, RnB and Dirty South rap dominate the charts (2005)
I found the tidbit on It's Your World quite interesting. I listen to that whole song every once in a while to remind myself of what I'd like to work towards, especially when living in this odd world can twist your goals. There is no way someone can be all of the things he listed, but all we can really do is be the best person we can possibly be. That struggle is what I find so charming. Easily my favorite Hip Hop song of all time.
Dope! I messaged you hoping to get The Cool, but another Chicago emcee will definitely do. This is a great album, prolly my 2nd favorite Common album after Like Water For Chocolate. The Corner is blassic! Gotta do Common's background story. Im pretty sure he came up a Vice Lord. The Food is another one of my all time favorites.
One of my favorite albums! It’s just so mellow and beautiful to listen to. Plus, I love how all the songs flow together so seamlessly if you don’t pause between tracks. One of the albums I listen to from start to finish! “The Beautiful Struggle” from Talib Kweli around the same time is also a gem from the mid 00s! Great reaction as always.
Bob, I really can’t tell you how excited I am to see this in my recommended, I clearly remember vividly requesting this in your livestream a year and a half ago. I absolutely love this album to death. Front to back heat, no skips for me. I absolutely love The Food, the live energy of that track is so sticky and catchy to me. But I honestly could talk about every track on Be. I’ll always come back to this album. Everyone on this is in rare form. Much love bob, been around since the og Yeezus Reaction
I wish I could hear this album again for the first time. I grew up listening to a lot of Common being from Chicago like him. He's such an underrated lyricist. 10/10 album.
Clicked immediatly as Common is my favorite rapper. Love this channel, theres no one else doing these kind of honest reactions. I guess your list is already long ash but you should do Like Water for Chocolate, Commons best album imo (prod mostly by J Dilla)
BEST intro! We used to just play that over and over again 18 or so years ago when i was on my grad trip in Cancun lol. So good! + The end line, "The present is a gift, and I just wanna BE" SO GOOD
Feels like I've been waiting ages for this one. Thanks bob! For the record, Common featured on Things Fall Apart, Black Star, and Man on the Moon and most likely some other stuff you listened to.
(Commenting before I watch, hopeful Bob doesn't hate the album and make me cry 😂😂) Omg omg, this might be one of my favorite albums ever made. So glad you're giving it a chance!! Common is one of those artists who hip hop kind of left behind, even though he has some of the most skillful writing of any rapper or poetry I've ever heard. And LORD that classic Ye production... it just hits the soul different
This might just Be! in my top 5 hip hop albums of all time. From start to finish absolutely brilliant. Easy listen musically, but so dense and nuanced content wise.
This album is a perfect one, u have common, a Nas and Jay Z level lyricist with a ton of flows, and two of the best producers of ALL TIME, Kanye and J Dilla, recently J Dilla has inspired me so god damn much in so many ways, I think u should check him out, he's an absolute legend.
i think pops outro on the final track is not meant to be him telling people what they should be, it's just him giving examples of all the things you can be if you're passionate about it, not what expectations you're supposed to live up to, but also that at the end of the day if you want to, you can just BE.
That "Be" poem at the end, is just listing off possibilities of what you can be. Saying that can BE these things if you want to. He's not saying that you need to be all off these things at once. The biggest take away from it is to be you. One thing that isn't talked about in the black community, is that we are constantly pressured to be something that we don't want to be. The sad thing is that, at this point it mainly comes from within by members of our own community. If you want to be something different, you get called "corny" or people will say that "you're trying to act like a white person." You'll even get it from people outside of the race. They'll say things like "you're one of the good ones," or "you speak so well." Don't get me wrong, it happens to everyone is all walks of life, but it's really strong in the black community, in the culture. So that's kind of that poem in a nutshell. It's not saying, "be perfect," it's saying "be you and who you want to be" without the pressure of other people telling you who to be. That's why it starts out with the children saying what they want to be when they grow up. The innocence of children and the dreams you once held before being beaten down by your peers, society and the world.
If you want to listen to something different and unique, I can only recommend the science fiction rap opera 'Deltron 3030'. It's one of the classic rap concept albums.
You are on a roll now with the albums. It’s not always about personal taste, I mean objectively you are in the higher quality range of albums lately. Ty!
One day it’ll all Make sense is my preferred out of the earlier albums. I love Resurrection too but the beats were more boom bap than the more refined soulful progression he developed that became his signature sound.
You should check out the studio version of “The Food” that was released as a single, and then find the video of the live performance from ‘Chappelle’s Show’ that ended up being the album version
Fun fact: Common’s dad Lonnie Lynn played professional basketball for the Pittsburgh Pipers in the ABA. He started doing vocals on every album since Common’s album Resurrection (which is his best IMO. Highly recommend). Lonnie Lynn passed away in 2014.
I think “Be” along with “Like water for chocolate”,should be among hip hop’s best albums ever category with Illmatic,Reasonable Doubt,The Blueprint,36 Chambers,Supreme Clientele,OB4CL,Ready To Die,Life After Death,All Eyes On Me,Me Against the World,The Score,The Infamous,The Chronic 1&2,Marshall Mathers LP, Train of Thought,Atliens,Aquemini,Low End of Theory,De La Soul is Dead, Black Star,GRODT,Doggystyle,Niggaz4Life,Fantastic Volume 2,Lethal Injection …. Which ones did I leave out?
Common is one of the most underrated rappers of all time imo. He’s been rapping for a while and has made a lot of albums that are either classics/master pieces or at least very good albums. Great lyricism and production.
I LOVE when Bob reacts to HIP HOP. Not that new age pop rap bs. But the real substance and culture. Havent even watched the video yet and I know its gona be a good one.
Fun Fact part 2: Common’s original name was Common Sense. His first three albums was as Common Sense but he was sued by a ska band with the same name so he shortened it to Common.
Be (intro) has to be one of the best intros I’ve ever heard
I just came home tired from work, and getting to hear Bob react to this intro for the first time was amazing right now
I get emotional listening to the intro and outro
@@StefanBorglyckesame man
Without a doubt
Just thinking about that. Good call.
This is probably one of my favourite hip hop albums as a quality over quantity kinda guy. Just so consistent/concise, not to mention the Kanye production output on this project is so underrated.
fancy seeing you here 🗿
Sick seeing u here
love your channel bro, cool to see you're also a bob fan
kanye production on this is nowhere near underrated lol what are you talking about 😂
Classic album, I think The Dreamer/The Believer and like water for chocolate is just as good as this one. Common just a great artist.
Oh yeah this is exactly what we needed. I adore this album, to me it encapsulates the essence of hip hop as a whole, and especially of the 2000s.
Common is a phenomal mc, and of course the Kanye production needs no introduction. Together, they created an album that’s always enjoyable and inspiring.
Some of my favorites have to be the intro, GO!, faithful, love is, and the fantastic outro.
By the way, I absolutely agree that “Be” is the answer to “Why are we here”. You explained it pretty well at the start.
Common really is an "ahead of their time" artist. He got clowned on so hard for being a conscious rapper talking about things a lot of people beg to hear more of in rap and hip-hop as time went on. While I wouldn't say he's top 10 he's an amazing underrated artist that helped pave the way for a lot of amazing contemporary artists.
That Marvin Gaye sample flip on "Love Is..." so beautiful! One of my favorite beat ever. RIP J Dilla. ✨️
What a classic album. Glad you reacted to this one.
Me too!
Boy lemme tell you, I am passionate about some Common. This is just _one_ of his classics, and a later one for him. Resurrection is a landmark record of 90s hip hop, and Like Water for Chocolate is a sprawling magnum opus produced almost entirely by J Dilla. The man is goated, probably even before he dropped Be.
Water for chocolate is a classic and is slept on
We have to get Bob to listen to Like Water For Chocolate!
Cosign on everything you said
All the Soulquarians are goated. Glad he’s been getting through them all slowly
Electric circus underrated
Definitely recommend you doing “Like Water for Chocolate” as well. The Light is one of the best hip hop songs of all time
Yes, even bette than be in my opinion and probably common's best album
This album to me literally sounds like Chicago, through and through. Reminds me of home every time I hear it and just gives great vibes on a warm beautiful summer day or a cold chicago winter night!
Kanye's production on this album is why I can never ever deny that he is a musical genius... pretty funny that a lot people will never hear or know of Kanye's greatness when he was coming up
Him making this and Late Registration in the same year is pretty much straight fire
@@bobthepoppop Literally unmatched. Might sound a little dumb, but I think people would have a much better understanding of Kanye if they heard his music/production from this era
@@bobthepoppop still not listening to kanye after a year is wild to me ngl
@@edwardcardenas92 kanyes work is still great (except vultures)
Kanye to the 🔥🔥🔥
Also I’m glad you’re seeing how many gifts Kanye has brought to the world. So many other artist’ best work is produced by Kanye. He shaped some of the best sounds of our generation
This album is defo talked about but its so underrated at the same time man, its what hip-hop is at its foundation. Absolute classic.
i’ve never heard anyone talk about it, and i can guarantee if i ask my friends if they know Be by Common they will have no clue what i’m on about i honestly don’t know why this stuff is so underrated and all the mainstream stuff has nothing on it
@@samjg6It's not underrated, I'm sick of people misusing this word ffs. The people that know about this album rate it VERY highly, it's just unknown to most people.
@@BobbyCroseBewler that’s what i mean mainly nobody i ask would know what it is
@samjg6 Yeah, and that's not underrated. That's just unknown
@@BobbyCroseBewler sorry man
Love this album Kanye's beats are a perfect landscape with commons conscious rhymes. It was cohesive and there's really no filler. Just a great album.
Love this album, second best rap album of 2005 only slightly behind Late Registration
Production-wise it’s better than LR but LR beats this from a vocal standpoint.
My top 2OO5 rap album is easily "Beauty and the Beat" but "Be" might be the runner-up.
t3 is lr Carter 2 and be
@@ShwetabhJha hey mama diamonds from sierra leone and we major are all much more detailed and emotional beats. this album is classic hiphop with looping samples and catchy drums. LR is levels above this
minstrel show by little brother is also up there. goddamn that year had some insanely good soulful production.
this album is such a moment, Ye, Dilla, Common at this intersection point in hip hop, delivering greatness all around
Been on a roll recently! All Eyez on Me, NWTS, Bottomless Pit, GRODT, and now Be? Killing it Bob!
Genuinely one of the GREATEST records ever.
Kanye’s greatest contribution outside his solo work!
Commons Magnum Opus.
It’s Your World & The Intro
are my favorite tracks
(Be), “You are HUMAN BEINGS… not human doing” - Zo Williams
One of my favorite Kanye produced album ❤ Commons lyrics are just beautiful
D'Angelo's Black Messiah is a great one worth listening to. A comeback album
D'Angelo does some of the weirdest and craziest vocal work on this album and I love it and the direction he took with the production
Black Messiah is phenomenal! Equally as good as Voodoo.
Replayed the album recently and couldn’t stop going back to it.
What a comeback album - D’Angelo didn’t miss a beat at all and made something that felt so forward-thinking and creative too.
Yeah, that one is on the list, has been for awhile
How you feel about “gangster rap” is how a lot of us used to feel. Especially how right after preceded the bling era which (very fun in its own right) was just a lot of unlyrical introspective club music that seemed to be taking over hip hop. In 2007 Album called Below the Heavens by Blu and Exile came out which was a breath of fresh air because it was a west coast young kid who was arguably the most introspective rapper to come out at the time but wasn’t removed from street life and could still spit. It was also at the beginning of the blog era which is the reason hip hop review and discussion channels like Dead End Hip Hop n Fantano exist.
LETS GOOOOOOOOOO you’re hitting a great stride of albums that I would qualify as the tier below classics. My favorite tier of hip hop, truthfully. All love Bob thank you for the content
Love your stuff man. This is so cool and you keep you authenticity in the reactions. Keep it going, there is so much more hip-hop to explore
There is still a TON to explore, it's crazy
Your dialogue before the album started and then your reaction to the intro was so exciting to watch knowing you understood Commons assignment 😂😂😂😂This album is a great ride. The songs alone are so incomplete without the whole set.
PERFECT ALBUM. One of hip hop’s best vibes. Production top notch. Lyrics top notch. It’s Common’s best album by far
the intro to the video is very touching bob. you are more than just a youtube reactor you are someone we all look to for your wisdom
🙏
Just want to throw this out there. Seeing you light up to the experience of hearing Be for the first time, really put a smile on my face. That was genuinely beautiful :)
:)
Personally, my favorite Kanye produced album outside of his own discography. You know this album will take you on a special journey just after hearing the first few seconds of Be (Intro) which is easily one of the best openers in hip-hop history. Common's elite and deep yet easy to understand lyricism, Kanye at the peak of his soul sampling era and Dilla's amazing contributions as well make up for a classic album that will live on forever. This album feels like acceptance, love and positivity yet it never fails to be real and show the truth of the matter with life not always being perfect even though you just wish to 'Be'.
Be is a great album. Common's following album, Finding Forever, is also great. Both are produced by Kanye.
In terms of album bookends, it doesn’t get much better than this.
Be (Intro) and It’s Your World, Pt. 1 & 2 are masterpieces
This album just feels so cozy, always puts me in a good mood 😌
Cozy is a great word for this album
It’s Your World is such a powerful song. It’s stuck with me for years and that beat is just so uplifting.
Thanks for the break in our daily lives. This is me and my wifes relaxing and smoking time. Music for the win.
Regardless of how you feel about Kanye as a person, you can't deny his musical genius.
One of the best "conscious rap" albums out there. Where Kanye and Common bring the golden era sound back in a time where 50 Cent, RnB and Dirty South rap dominate the charts (2005)
I found the tidbit on It's Your World quite interesting. I listen to that whole song every once in a while to remind myself of what I'd like to work towards, especially when living in this odd world can twist your goals. There is no way someone can be all of the things he listed, but all we can really do is be the best person we can possibly be. That struggle is what I find so charming. Easily my favorite Hip Hop song of all time.
Dope! I messaged you hoping to get The Cool, but another Chicago emcee will definitely do. This is a great album, prolly my 2nd favorite Common album after Like Water For Chocolate. The Corner is blassic!
Gotta do Common's background story. Im pretty sure he came up a Vice Lord.
The Food is another one of my all time favorites.
One of my favorite albums! It’s just so mellow and beautiful to listen to. Plus, I love how all the songs flow together so seamlessly if you don’t pause between tracks. One of the albums I listen to from start to finish! “The Beautiful Struggle” from Talib Kweli around the same time is also a gem from the mid 00s! Great reaction as always.
Bob, I really can’t tell you how excited I am to see this in my recommended, I clearly remember vividly requesting this in your livestream a year and a half ago.
I absolutely love this album to death. Front to back heat, no skips for me. I absolutely love The Food, the live energy of that track is so sticky and catchy to me. But I honestly could talk about every track on Be. I’ll always come back to this album. Everyone on this is in rare form.
Much love bob, been around since the og Yeezus Reaction
Thanks for watching for so long, that's great :)
Holy shit finally !! One of my favourite albums of all time any genre
Let’s f’n go!!!!! This album is on my all time top 10 🔥🔥🔥
New sub! I love how you listen to these classic hiphop albums bro. Keep it up!
I wish I could hear this album again for the first time. I grew up listening to a lot of Common being from Chicago like him. He's such an underrated lyricist. 10/10 album.
Clicked immediatly as Common is my favorite rapper. Love this channel, theres no one else doing these kind of honest reactions. I guess your list is already long ash but you should do Like Water for Chocolate, Commons best album imo (prod mostly by J Dilla)
BEST intro! We used to just play that over and over again 18 or so years ago when i was on my grad trip in Cancun lol. So good! + The end line, "The present is a gift, and I just wanna BE" SO GOOD
Feels like I've been waiting ages for this one. Thanks bob!
For the record, Common featured on Things Fall Apart, Black Star, and Man on the Moon and most likely some other stuff you listened to.
Thank you for this one. I needed this one. You are helping people Bob, I want you to know that!
Finally!!! I’ve been requesting this since the beginning of your channel 😭
This is my favorite album of all time!
(Commenting before I watch, hopeful Bob doesn't hate the album and make me cry 😂😂)
Omg omg, this might be one of my favorite albums ever made. So glad you're giving it a chance!! Common is one of those artists who hip hop kind of left behind, even though he has some of the most skillful writing of any rapper or poetry I've ever heard. And LORD that classic Ye production... it just hits the soul different
This album is a classic. One of my most listened to albums as a teen.
As a kid I found out about this album through the Chappell Show cause the food was too hard had to listen more 🔥
This might just Be! in my top 5 hip hop albums of all time. From start to finish absolutely brilliant. Easy listen musically, but so dense and nuanced content wise.
This album is a perfect one, u have common, a Nas and Jay Z level lyricist with a ton of flows, and two of the best producers of ALL TIME, Kanye and J Dilla, recently J Dilla has inspired me so god damn much in so many ways, I think u should check him out, he's an absolute legend.
You have heard Common before. He was featured on College Dropout and Late Registration
Beautiful hip-hop record. Would be great to see you react to and dissect Blu & Exile’s “Below the Heavens”
Bob you have idea happy I am for this day to arrive, great album and great album to experience.
idea happy
Idea happy
A fun fact about The Last Poets is that they got their name from a poem that was written by Earl's father
Common is a master rapper and can freestyle with the best!
A perfect album from start to finish. The ending is so inspiring.
i think pops outro on the final track is not meant to be him telling people what they should be, it's just him giving examples of all the things you can be if you're passionate about it, not what expectations you're supposed to live up to, but also that at the end of the day if you want to, you can just BE.
That "Be" poem at the end, is just listing off possibilities of what you can be. Saying that can BE these things if you want to. He's not saying that you need to be all off these things at once. The biggest take away from it is to be you. One thing that isn't talked about in the black community, is that we are constantly pressured to be something that we don't want to be. The sad thing is that, at this point it mainly comes from within by members of our own community. If you want to be something different, you get called "corny" or people will say that "you're trying to act like a white person." You'll even get it from people outside of the race. They'll say things like "you're one of the good ones," or "you speak so well." Don't get me wrong, it happens to everyone is all walks of life, but it's really strong in the black community, in the culture. So that's kind of that poem in a nutshell. It's not saying, "be perfect," it's saying "be you and who you want to be" without the pressure of other people telling you who to be.
That's why it starts out with the children saying what they want to be when they grow up. The innocence of children and the dreams you once held before being beaten down by your peers, society and the world.
This means The Cool is coming. Keep the Chicago conscious rappers going 😁😁😁
If you want to listen to something different and unique, I can only recommend the science fiction rap opera 'Deltron 3030'. It's one of the classic rap concept albums.
Seconded, Del Tha Funky Homosapien is probably the only MC that can make that concept work.
And based on my username I may feel strongly about this lol.
You are on a roll now with the albums. It’s not always about personal taste, I mean objectively you are in the higher quality range of albums lately. Ty!
This album is special..Common and Kany beats is a great duo
Common is my #1 favorite emcee.
2nd is Aesop Rock and 3rd is Black Thought.
Commons song 'G.O.D.' swayed my soul as a teenager.
Resurrection is one of Common's BEST albums EVER!!! Certified CLASSIC!!!
One day it’ll all Make sense is my preferred out of the earlier albums. I love Resurrection too but the beats were more boom bap than the more refined soulful progression he developed that became his signature sound.
You should check out the studio version of “The Food” that was released as a single, and then find the video of the live performance from ‘Chappelle’s Show’ that ended up being the album version
This is a perfect albumn. I would loop it several times. So concise that i can play it 2 or 3 times in a row.
Fun fact: Common’s dad Lonnie Lynn played professional basketball for the Pittsburgh Pipers in the ABA. He started doing vocals on every album since Common’s album Resurrection (which is his best IMO. Highly recommend). Lonnie Lynn passed away in 2014.
We’re all alone in this together - Dave
I think “Be” along with “Like water for chocolate”,should be among hip hop’s best albums ever category with Illmatic,Reasonable Doubt,The Blueprint,36 Chambers,Supreme Clientele,OB4CL,Ready To Die,Life After Death,All Eyes On Me,Me Against the World,The Score,The Infamous,The Chronic 1&2,Marshall Mathers LP, Train of Thought,Atliens,Aquemini,Low End of Theory,De La Soul is Dead, Black Star,GRODT,Doggystyle,Niggaz4Life,Fantastic Volume 2,Lethal Injection …. Which ones did I leave out?
You’ve only hit the tip of the iceberg of hip hop/rap. I enjoy watching you go down this beautiful rabbit hole.
verse 2 on it's your world might be some of the greatest writing in the history of hiphop
The intro was my alarm tone for years.
the opening song of this album has always had a special place in my heart just something about it
Common is one of the most underrated rappers of all time imo. He’s been rapping for a while and has made a lot of albums that are either classics/master pieces or at least very good albums. Great lyricism and production.
This was my high school years anthem. This and all the Kanye west albums. Oh don't forget Lupe too
19 years old today!!!!
Yes yes yes! I was busy yesterday I’m so sad I missed this but let’s goo! One of my favorite albums of all time.
It’s your world (Part 1 and Part 2) gives me chills every time I hear it. Damnit I miss J.Dilla.
I remember hearing this riding around high af, fresh outta high school, high as a cloud and this made everyone stay quite for the entire time.
i'm living vicariously through your reaction to be (intro). i would do anything to hear that song for the first time again
I LOVE when Bob reacts to HIP HOP. Not that new age pop rap bs. But the real substance and culture. Havent even watched the video yet and I know its gona be a good one.
The way you broke down the Corner tells me you understood. Salute 🫡
FINALLYYYYY one of my favourites albums of all time, common such an underraated artist, hope to see you react to more of his projects!
Absolute classic 🔥
Great reaction Bob
i look forward to seein your vids every week. shit keeps me going
BOB let’s go dude what a great album!
The smooth, xylophone-like keys on "They Say" is a Rhodes Electric Piano. Such a classic sound!
i love seeing your reactions to albums i grew up on man. keep going!
I love this album and I'm so happy you're digging into it Bob!
This was the first album I thought of after your GRODT additional thoughts video, you're the man Bob!
One of my favorite albums regardless of genre. I wish I heard it for the first time again
Still one of the most underrated rap albums ever
Fun Fact part 2: Common’s original name was Common Sense. His first three albums was as Common Sense but he was sued by a ska band with the same name so he shortened it to Common.
i’m so happy you did this album one of my all time favs
Bob, you’re the man. Love your reactions and commentary. Keep it up good sir!
Amazing video Bob, god I love this album. So therapeutic
Let’s gooooo, best part of Fridays