While visiting DJ Drama’s Aphilliates Radio, Common reveals the motives for cooking up his second single, Sweet, his relationship with the entire G.O.O.D. Music squad, Kanye hopping on the remix to Sweet and wanting to collaborate with Kendrick Lamar. Com’s ninth album, The Dreamer, The Believer due for a Dec. 20th release date. FSD.
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Get that co-sign from Drake…and now everybody wants to work with you. Anywayz the collab would be dope.
Just look at A$AP Rocky and The Weeknd
Lol at idiots thinking the drake thing did anything but promote him to a mainstream audience. Hip hop stays attentive you are just looking in the wrong places.
@KC Com was definitely taking subliminal shots at Drake in that interview. I never call that shit out and Drama didn’t have the balls to ask…but the word Drake was just lording over that entire convo without being said
com and ye are “sweet” rappers themselves…they’re some of the main rappers responsible for opening that lane up again for the drake and alike. i dont understand this. thats why the whole idea of that song from a peaceful smileyface hippy dude like common doesnt make sense (pardon the pun) to me. sure he’s made hard songs like the bitch in you and the corner that are certified classics but this new shit? nah..not a good look imo.
This music industry is so fake. No matter if its mainstream, independent, commercial, or underground.
Lol Just enjoy the music :(
My problem with Common is this, and I say this with all due respect but he talking about rappers being sweet? Stop it Common because one reason why a while back I said I dont think he has any classic albums ( even though all his albums are almost like musical masterpieces ) is because on his greatest albums like Water For Chocolate and Be, he doesnt really show any aggression. On Electric Circus and Finding Forever he did but I dont believe he should be the one calling out rappers for being sweet even though I know Common is really a hardcore artist at his core. He made a career of softer sounding hip hop so its crazy that he would get mad at other people making softer hip hop. Lastly I believe his next album will be one of, or his best album but I dont believe he’s going at Drake, I think he just generally speaking about the overall sound of rap these days.
Thumbs up for wanting to work wit Kendrick, thumbs down for Kanye on the sweet remix
I hope that sweet remix really goes through….
Thing about Common though is his style is not soft! If you listen to what he’s saying, you’ll realize that. When he was young, he was very aggressive in his songs. As you mature, you try new things. But by no means should any of you new school hipster fans think that Common is soft. Now, with that being said, singing on a song for 8+ minutes with a 30 second rap (Marvin’s whatever) is soft. No one is saying that Drake is wrong for being emotional, but on the real, that’s anti Hip Hop by nature. When Drake tries to spit about being hard, I’ll believe Common over him anyday. Just saying…
@KC Kendrick was already blowing up and getting major co-signs before the Drake collab
@Marty Common has never been very agressive but he’s never been “soft” either..he’s mostly positive/conscious but that doesnt make him soft..what makes a rapper soft is when they’re whining and crooning every single song like ol Drizzy “Young Garnier Fructis” Drake..rappers like him are SWEET..thats something Common has NEVER been
I didnt say Common was soft, I said “I know Common is really a hardcore artist at his core” but if you really are a Common fan then you know his biggest songs are about women and have a softer sound. The Light, Come Close, Testify, Drivin Me Wild, I Want You, shit all the way back to I Used To Love H.E.R. So why is it cool for him but not the rappers from this new generation? I cant say im really a fan of that kind of hip hop but I just dont believe Common should be the one to speak on it in a negative manner. Common has some super hardcore songs and lyrically I cant really say anybody can out rap him ( not even my favorite MC ) but he has made alot of “sweet” music in his life. That is all
^^ I Used to Love H.E.R. is not about a woman. It’s about hip hop. That song still bumps too. I dont even listen to drake so i cant defend that cat…
@Cage come on now, you know I know what I Used To Love H.E.R is about. Im just saying and its really bigger then just defending Drake because Common wont even say the song is about him. Its about the over balance of hip hop and Common song is dope but he knows he aint really mad at anyone making soft records cause he likes that style of rap.
overALL balance of hip hop I mean…. and another thing I didnt really comment on from last week is when people were saying Commons album cover had Illuminati symbolism on it. Well if thats the case then so does almost every album from every artist in the history of music. There are symbols on almost everything and not every album artwork is about some Illuminati bullshit.
Common=GOAT, definitely wanna hear a Kendrick Lamar and Common collab and Kendrick didn’t need Drake’s cosign, he had WestCoast legends’ cosign and thats way more credible than Drake
@marty Common never criticized rappers for making songs about women, and when Common does it its in a conscious/uplifting manner, not in a whining, crying, moaning manner..Common has never been sweet, and you just pointed out certain singles when he’s got well-known tracks like “Resurrection”, “Be”, “Invocation”, “The Corner”..the majority content of his albums arent about relationships and even if it was he still wouldnt be soft/sweet and would still have the credibility to criticize the rappers who are
Apparently it’s emotional when you make music about anything negative in a relationship, but it’s not when the topic is the negatives about anything else.
Glad I listen to the music still.
singing your emotions and rapping your emotions are two different things.
Joe budden (rapper) , drake (r&b) totally different
the idea of kanye on the sweet remix reminds me of this bullshit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YelLNlkjZfA
After all..Kendrick is a close cut to Common and Gucci Mane
^^^ lol good one.
I like the idea of kanye on a sweet remix and him and kendrick lamar collaborating is dream come true!
maybe his definition of soft differs from your def. of it. Common is hip-hop, some of these other dudes are hip-POP. Regardless of his lyrical content and subject matter, his music is always hip-hop in sound,vibe and style
Hey, McFly. I thought I told you never to come in here.