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- Summary: The seventh album produced by Kanye West (who also guests on one track), features appearances from Lily Allen, DJ Premier, D'Angelo, and Bilal.
- Record Label: Universal Music Group
- Genre(s): Rap
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Top Track
I Want You | |
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will.i.am Once the love was strong Now it's long, long gone Cause the pain, came down like a storm I remained holding on 'Cause I want you, cause I... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 18 out of 28
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Mixed: 9 out of 28
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Negative: 1 out of 28
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'So Far to Go' embodies everything great about Common--his witty delivery, smooth flow, loquacious lyrics and perfect sense of timing --but then the same could be said for virtually any track on Finding Forever.
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Entertainment WeeklyThe album is both lush and gritty, integrating awkwardly hacked samples, rowdy percussion, and sweet backing vocals. [03 Aug 2007, p.67]
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West produces the bulk again on Finding Forever, and it's his skill in embellishing a sample and his unerring eye for a soulful hook that is consistently bringing the best out of his mentor-turned-protege.
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The rest of it though, is soulful and intelligent where 'intelligent' is not exclusive to 'good beats and rhymes.' Which is what it's all about.
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His ear-grabbing command stands up to almost any MC out there.
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If you can stomach the contrived slow jams and the sensitive soul-baring, there are a couple of decent joints produced by West.
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The type of pretension that rears its fluffy manicured head on Finding Forever is one flatly insidious, lying in plush vibing harpsichord wait ("Intro"), in pattered bongo spoken word nobility ("Black Maybe"), and finally erupting in a 7½ minute crossharp-cooing, Crash-namedropping, butterfuck of pretension, exploding the boundaries of how fucking wack we ever, ever, ever thought Common could get.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 29 out of 36
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Mixed: 5 out of 36
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Negative: 2 out of 36
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NadumF.Jul 31, 2007A classic album, not one weak song. Amazing work by Common and Kanye.
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ACAug 9, 2007
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TONYB.Dec 31, 2007HEAT
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pepel.Aug 1, 2007
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DanASep 23, 2007
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ikeeJul 30, 2007A brilliant album from common....personally at par with 'Be'.
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johnjJul 30, 2007Nowhere near as good as Be, unfortunately.
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