Common searches for immortality on Finding Forever
Posted by ~Ray @ 2008-11-13 11:23:53
09/26/07 - People have searched for immortality for hundreds of years since the days of Ponce De Leon and the Fountain of Youth; but that all too elusive goal always seems to be just out of reach. Now Chicago MC Common is making his own bid for immortality (albeit of a more musical sort) with his seventh studio album. Finding Forever. Common whose real name is Lonnie Rashid Lynn Jr. spoke on his sonic quest and was quoted as saying. "Finding Forever really means to find a place in music where you can exist forever. Music can be forever if you make it from the heart if you make it from the soul and it's good … that's forever music." Common waits to get things started as the intro to the album is just a simple instrumentation that bears no resemblance to what the ensuing album has in store for the unexpecting listeners. The intro then gives way to the ominous-sounding "Start The Show." Common takes advantage of the thumping kicks producer Kanye West provides spewing barb-filled lines like. "With 12 monkeys on stage it's hard to see who's a gorilla / You was better as a drug dealer." The Grammy-nominated artist then ushers in some soulfulness with "The People." The track which features Detroit crooner Dwele displays the socially aware style of rhyming fans have come to appreciate from Common. The consciousness continues with the Lily Allen assisted "Drivin' Me Wild" in which the rhymer formally known as Common Sense elaborates on people who chase all the wrong things in this world of ours. The G. O. O. D Music artist and his Black Eye Peas cohort. Will i am proceed to switch up the mood with the finger-snapping "I Want You." The love-note-styled selection features a remorseful Common pleading with a lost lover to come back home. Kanye West works his way back into the mix as he and Common deliver an ode to their side of Chicago aptly titled "Southside." The track which was meant for the Super Bowl XLI-bound Chicago Bears and originally titled "Southside Super Bowl," makes use of a mean-sounding guitar sample that paints a musical picture of Common's gritty home and allows him to state his lyrical dominance with lines like. "Back in '94 they called me Chi-town's Nas / Now them n****s know I'm one of Chi-town's gods." [ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://www.ramcigar.com/news/2007/09/26/Entertainment/Common.Searches.For.Immortality.On.Finding.Forever-2992694.shtml
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