Common: With the release of his 9th studio album, Common has gone back to the basics. With the Hip Hop Movement still stuck in an Ice age, we are reminded what it Hip Hop is really about. The Dreamer/The Believer was produced entirely by No I.D. They were able to deliver an album full of hard hitting sounds and lyrics that takes us on a journey. It’s safe to say that we have a classic on our hands. Check the video below of the song “Sweet” of the album.
I’ve been a Common fan since middle school, when I discovered Like Water For Chocolate, and after his song “Between Me, You & Liberation”, it can be argued that Common erased his homophobia. But with “Sweet”, I’m not so sure. He’s rapping about the types of dudes he’s fed up with and calls them “Hoe ass niggas”, “Little bitch[es]”, “Sweet motherfucker[s]” and “Sweet ass bitch motherfucker[s]”… What kind of men are normally called “sweet”? Gay ones. I don’t believe that there aren’t homophobic connotations to calling a man sweet, even if the one calling them that is Common. Calling a man sweet and equating him with a gay men is to call him soft, less than a man. Frankly, I’m disappointed in that song. Sure, he goes hard on that song. In fact, be probably goes more H.A.M. (H.A.M.mer? Idk.) than ‘Ye & Jay on “H.A.M.”, but that song…
Furthermore, Common occupies a royal throne in hip-hop. He is a fucking god emcee. Not only did he not need to take shots at Drake and whoever else thinks “Is he talking about me” [his sentiments; not mine], (which is more or less inconsequential). He did not need to stoop to employing homophobia to start a beef. He’s a master lyricist. If he wants to call out emcees for lack of lyrical content or skill, that’s one thing. But to resort to what he did… that’s just common (in society and hip-hop), trite, and below him. It’s cheap. It’s offensive. Especially coming from a “conscious rapper”.
And considering that other rappers and fans probably found him soft at one point for: his previous look, his raps to women, or his hiatus from hip-hop to do Hollywood, it’s kind of hypocritical.
Common: With the release of his 9th studio album, Common has gone back to the basics. With the Hip Hop Movement still stuck in an Ice age, we are reminded what it Hip Hop is really about. The Dreamer/The Believer was produced entirely by No I.D. They were able to deliver an album full of hard hitting sounds and lyrics that takes us on a journey. It’s safe to say that we have a classic on our hands. Check the video below of the song “Sweet” of the album.
I’ve been a Common fan since middle school, when I discovered Like Water For Chocolate, and after his song “Between Me, You & Liberation”, it can be argued that Common erased his homophobia. But with “Sweet”, I’m not so sure. He’s rapping about the types of dudes he’s fed up with and calls them “Hoe ass niggas”, “Little bitch[es]”, “Sweet motherfucker[s]” and “Sweet ass bitch motherfucker[s]”… What kind of men are normally called “sweet”? Gay ones. I don’t believe that there aren’t homophobic connotations to calling a man sweet, even if the one calling them that is Common. Calling a man sweet and equating him with a gay men is to call him soft, less than a man. Frankly, I’m disappointed in that song. Sure, he goes hard on that song. In fact, be probably goes more H.A.M. (H.A.M.mer? Idk.) than ‘Ye & Jay on “H.A.M.”, but that song…
Furthermore, Common occupies a royal throne in hip-hop. He is a fucking god emcee. Not only did he not need to take shots at Drake and whoever else thinks “Is he talking about me” [his sentiments; not mine], (which is more or less inconsequential). He did not need to stoop to employing homophobia to start a beef. He’s a master lyricist. If he wants to call out emcees for lack of lyrical content or skill, that’s one thing. But to resort to what he did… that’s just common (in society and hip-hop), trite, and below him. It’s cheap. It’s offensive. Especially coming from a “conscious rapper”.
And considering that other rappers and fans probably found him soft at one point for: his previous look, his raps to women, or his hiatus from hip-hop to do Hollywood, it’s kind of hypocritical.