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Cat: 888072 629684. Rel: 7 Oct 24
Hip Hop/R&B

Side 1 - Track 1. Dreamin'Side 1 - Track 2. Chi-Town Do ItSide 1 - Track 3. This Man's ArmsSide 2 - Track 1. We're On Our WaySide 2 - Track 2. FortunateSide 2 - Track 3. So Many People (feat Bilal)Side 3 - Track 1. Wise UpSide 3 - Track 2. A God (There Is) (feat Jennifer Hudson)Side 3 - Track 3. StellarSide 3 - Track 4. LonesomeSide 3 - Track 5. All Kind Of Ideas (feat Pete Rock)Side 4 - Track 1. When The Sun Shines Again (feat Posdnuos)Side 4 - Track 2. Everything's So Grand (feat PJ)Side 4 - Track 3. Now & ThenSide 4 - Track 4. Outro

Loma Vista proudly present the latest full-length album by Common, one of the so-called 'conscious' hip-hop scene's earliest progenitor. Here, the rapper teams up with fellow wordsmith and DJ Pete Rock - whom the former refers to as "one of The Greatest Creators Hip Hop and Music has ever seen" (capitalisations not going unnoticed) - for a 15-track meditation on the proverbial theatre: the setting in which the fantastical drama of hip-hop takes place. Never having worked together before, Common and Rock roll out an uncommon compendium, fulfilling in particular Common's dream of working with an antecedent great. Mid-album scratch-fests like 'All Kind Of Ideas' evoke golden-days hip-hop nostalgia through their easy, boppy grooves and images of hustling and "cooking up", while 'Wise Up' and 'Dreamin'' move more textural and vinyl-crackly with things, musing equally on the requisites of leg-breaking performance. A glisteningly soulful album, invoking the glabrous power of street dreams.