Be 2LP

Recorded mostly in New York and Los Angeles, and largely written in the Chicago native’s hometown, BE is a brilliant manifestation of raw, warm, soulful, pure, contemporary hip-hop that clocks in at just 11 songs. Comms return to his roots and to his musics unadulterated essence meant that the bulk of BEs production would be helmed by Kanye West a fellow Chicagoan who came up under the tutelage of Commons first producer and good friend No I.D. West, contributed nine tracks and helped to shape the overall sound of the LP while A Tribe Called Quest collaborator Jay Dee, produced two cuts (“Love Is” and “It’s Your World”). The result is a superlative collection of successive gems that finds Common, a seasoned vet, rhyming with the hunger, intensity and fire of a newjack.