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- Summary: The 14th full-length studio release for the Chicago rapper features guest appearances from Black Thought, Brittany Howard, Marcus King, Seun Kuti, Jessica Care Moore, Morgan Parker, PJ, and Isaiah Sharkey.
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- Record Label: Concord
- Genre(s): Rap
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Positive: 5 out of 9
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Mixed: 4 out of 9
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Sep 10, 2021Common raps with the calm contentment of a man who’s reached his destination, and it certainly sounds satisfying.
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Sep 9, 2021‘A Beautiful Revolution Pt. 2’ is a sweet paean to music’s mood-boosting properties, as well as it capacity to effect meaningful change.
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Sep 9, 2021Common’s lyrical imagery is as evocative as ever on both. ... This is Common’s most hopeful album in years.
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Sep 10, 2021‘A Beautiful Revolution Pt. 2’ stares down the traumas that proliferate our lives, offering hope, creativity, and soul filtered through Common’s profound hip-hop vision.
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Sep 9, 2021By catering to everyone in an effort to uplift, Common doesn’t connect with the listener as much as he could–and as much as he has in the past. Common's big tent might be too spacious for its own good.
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Dec 10, 2021The energy throughout the album is so steady and positive that, even at a low volume, it can have a pacifying effect on the soul.
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Sep 14, 2021There’s enough evidence on A Beautiful Revolution, Pt. 2 to suggest that he still cares about music, but it may take more than mellow bromides and Obama shout-outs to truly convince us.
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Positive: 2 out of 2
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Sep 10, 2021Africabeat and poetic. Poetry reminds me of the underground of the 00s. Common made an album with the essence of rap.
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Sep 16, 2021
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