Finding Forever doesn’t suffer from that affliction, and the slower joints are among the best of the LP. In hindsight especially, Be lacked a real edge in the latter half of the album and drifted into boredom. Common - So Far To Go (Album Version).įinding Forever is in some ways a follow up to Be, but in some ways it’s also what Be should have been. Common - The Game (Album Version Explicit). Common - Southside (Album Version Explicit). Common - Drivin' Me Wild (Album Version). Common - The People (Album Version Explicit). Common - Start The Show (Album Version Explicit). Common is an MC through and through he's well respected, fairly renowned and, according to Gap, mildly fashionableĬommon - Finding Forever (2007). It's pretty hard to come into this album without expectations. Fans will probably forget this is a Common album by the third or fourth track and it’s probably for the better. Finding Forever - Average, Based on 3 Critics. 60 Music Critic Score How the Music Critic Score works. Release Date: Record label: Universal Music Group Genre(s): Rap.
It's accurate in more ways than the idea that Resurrection is the Midwest's Illmatic: Both MCs have spent the past 13.Although the Kanye West partnership that flourished in Common's 2005 return to form felt like something that could reap a lot of creative dividends over the course of subsequent albums, Finding Forever is a turn toward going through the motions, weighed down by an adult-contemporary atmosphere that mistakes fatigue for relaxation.Īlbum: Finding Forever. There's one line on Common's new album, Finding Forever, that keeps sticking with me, and it comes right about in the middle, on "Southside": "Back in '94 they called me Chi-town's Na. Selling over 500,000 units in the US, it has been certified Gold.įinding Forever (2xCDr, Album, Vin). The album debuted at the number one on the Billboard 200, selling 155,000 units in the first week, becoming Common's first chart-topper. Like Common's previous album, Be (2005), Finding Forever is primarily produced by Kanye West. Finding Forever is the seventh studio album by Common, released on Jon GOOD Music and Geffen Records.