Timestamps for everyone AOTY 3:34 1. Dreamin 8:52 2. Chi Town Do It 13:58 3. This Man 22:36 4. We re On Our Way 32:02 5. Fortunate 38:30 6. So Many People 45:38 7. Wise Up 53:51 8. A GOD (There Is) 1:01:09 9. Stellar 1:07:27 Diddy Raid!!! 1:09:01 10. Lonesome (my favorite) 1:16:58 11. All Kind Of Ideas (Ft. Pete Rock) 1:24:22 12. When the sun shines again 1:31:48 13. Everything’s So Grand 1:34:49 Bonus Track? Diddy Raid 1:38:11 KZfaq sells😔👎🏾 1:41:01 Trippy gets blocked for no reason, subscribe to Trippy Subscribe To Ahmad 🔥 KZfaq needs to ban Diddy Raid and KZfaq itself

My mouth dropped when I listened to this, in the ride. I'm a Chi-town native living in Tennessee now. You have to be from the Chi to know what Common was talkin about.They paid homage to Kanye, Syleena Johnson, Curtis Mayfield, and Jennifer Hudson, all Chicago's very own. This might be my favorite Common album now. 🤔

This is what happens when you have that real DJ/ Emcee combo!!

NaS woke everybody up and let the older class they can still do this

Pete Rock at his best here as well as Common. Definitely album of the year. Let’s see what Nas and DJ premiere drop if they do this year or not.

Don't sleep on Q-tip on production! Check out the New LL songs produced by Q-tip. The new album is coming out September 6. Q-tip produced the whole album

Beautiful album. Majestic, even... The lyrics, the samples, the overall context ❤🤌🏿 As a 40 plus year old hip hoper, I am so grateful to brothers like Common, Nas and Pete for still doing this 🙏🏿 If you were raised on 90s hip hop, a sound like this album bursts your heart open from the nostalgia and ensues so much joy! I really hope one day these award shows create a contemporary hip hop category, so the older hip hoppers can be acknowledged/celebrated amongst their peers and stay motivated...

Oh fella, what an album... Common is a legit top-10 contender: vocabulary, metaphores, schemes, message, delivery, discography 🔥🔥

Best produced album in like 20 years

Posdnous is from De La Soul. Trugoy the Dove and Maseo are the other members. RIP Trugoy!

My favorite Common album since "Be".🔥

Easily 5 mics if the bible of hip hop was still rating albums 🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤

THIS IS A CLASSIC ALBUM. AND ALBUM OF THE YR. 💪🏽🫡 TO THE REAL HIP-HOP. ITS TIME FOR REAL HIP HOP. MUMBLE RAPPERS TAKE NOTES . WHAT REAL HIP HOP IS. MUSIC THAT LIFTS UP YOUR VIBRATIONS. FOR THE PEOPLE FOR THE CULTURE. THIS ALBUM IS TASTEFULLY DONE. MUCH APPERCIATED 💪🏽🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥❤️🎶🎵

For someone so young, you catch a lot of the old hip hop references.

This might be one of his best album he made because this is one of the few albums in his discography that's entirely produced by one producer. The Dreamer/The Believer was done by No I.D., A Beautiful Revolution was done by Karriem Riggins but this one will be more highly acclaimed because it's PETE ROCK and like the other highly acclaimed albums like LWFC (primarily by Dilla ft. Premier & Soulquarians), BE (primarily by Ye ft. Dilla) and Resurrection (No I.D. ft. Ynot), ain't NO SKIPS ON THIS RECORD!!!

You still gotta do Like Water for Chocolate, you gonna love that album.

This Is Without A Shadow Of A Doubt The AOTY Frontrunner, PR And Com Sense Really On A Generational Run

Fun Fact: Bilal is a trained orchestra vocalist and one of the top tier neo-soul artists

i like how the 50 year olds have been droppin some of the best shit.., common, nas, eminem , black thought.. off the top...pete rock is over 50... im telling you

Way better then the Eminem album, tho i liked it. common and Pete 🔥🔥 next gonna be when nas the goat drops his album with preemo 🐐🐐

This is the year of the OGs of HipHop showing the. new generation how it’s done. Ahmad don’t forget Rakim is dropping next week.

Maaaaan common always talking bout his spirit being moved by certain music Something about this album that just makes u feel good Glad pete rock gettin flowers If only more mcs did these 1 producer albums again like the underground been doing

Yo King, the more I think about it, you should probably do One Day It'll All Make Sense before Like Water. It is a deeper album with some of the same themes and you'll appreciate it more. The features with Cee Lo, Lauryn, Erykah, De La, Black Thought, and Q-Tip are all well used with pretty much no fluff on the album.

Sucks you couldn’t get to “Now and Then”, that’s one of my favorites off the album 🔥🔥🔥

That when that sun shines track comes on bruh.... that ish is amazing!

I love that you are so open minded with music. Mentioning how you enjoy expanding your palate through your channel is what it should be about IMHO! I’m fairly new to your content but you got a supporter for as long as you do this fam! 💯✊🏾

This is a dope album. Great production. Fire rhymes.

This makes me proud to be Hip hop! Not rap! There's nothing that could be made by these new kids that can move my spirit and soul like this! Greatness personified! 🔥 🔥

This album is pure 🔥

"Fortunate" slowly but without doubt creeping in top of my playlist.

Hip-hop is back and alive for the year 2024!

This Man hits hard for me, but the whole album was dope AF

16:07 "E-ase up, I don't F with them bc it's G's up" The alphabet E-F-G also to a double entendre for being a real gangsta over fuck shit/enemies. How many lame rappers would've just said the same ole "fuck the opps" etc. This is the art of rhyme that hip-hop has missed.

that was my face for each song too haha ... just couldnt believe what they did but knew it was gonna be this dope

Common is in my top 5 of all times. Pete Rock went absolutely bananas on this project!

There is not much to say: This is easily the album of the year! I am going to buy this. Will listen to it up and down! 😀😃😄😁😆😅🤣😂

This is a beautiful collaboration between Common and Pete Rock. Common is underrated.

They gonna win album of the year like Nas and Hit Boy.

Dope album and review props Ahmad 🔥🔥

1:26:53 Posdnuos aka Plug 1 is 1/3 of De La Soul

A song called are you lonesome like me by feminine complex sample for the common song lonesome

Marley Marl invented chopping samples. Pete Rock was his first disciple.

Your reactions to this. Took me back to when Mecca and The Soul Brother first dropped 🤜🏾🤛🏽

BE was my favorite album by Common, now this one is at number 1. Btw, on the same date, Blu made album produced by Evidence. You should check it!

Glad to see a fellow HipHopHead enjoy this album to tha SAME level as I did! U just gained a subscriber👊👊👊🤘🤘 Great Vid!!!

This album had me geekin the whole time!! Its up there with Common Be album for me bro!

Damn I'm salty I missed the Live Stream! I knew you was going do this joint King Ahmad. Good is dawg!

great review..have to review Common album "One day it will all make sense"..his best album to me..peace!

This the album I needed to get me back into rockin the sour face "woooooo this hot" with the head boppin 🔥💯 The longevity of Pete Rock might be knocking out Alchemist out of my top 5 lol

2 albums that are a must to review after this album. Mecca and The Soul Brother and Like Water For Chocolate....in that order !!!

Instant Classic and beyond.

21:25 how nobody gonna mention NEPTUNES and TIMBALAND?!

Common you slick mf.. my ears burning from listening to all this fire fr

U should check out the live performance of When Sunshine Begins on Late night with Jimmy Fallon.

Now this is an album, not that Eminem with childish rhymes

Listen 2 Common's albums Resurrection and One Day it'll All My Sense and you'll hear him talking that RAW shit

Shout out to Nas, Common, Em, LL Cool J and the legendary producers still putting out classics showing how it’s done.

You should do a bunch of Gangstarr Albums if Preemo is your guy!

that rhapsody is at this level watch!

What the fcuk is that outro on "When Sun Shine Again?" unreal.

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A Producers Orchestrates A Song/Album.. Some are hands on with instruments and beat machines. Some cant play anything but knows how to place sounds in the right areas. Some beat makers can also producer some cant. They'll tell an artist how they should approach a song scheme and Flow wise. If you dont do any of those things except make the beat .. You are Not A Producer, You Make Beats And Thats Ok And Is Definitely Needed When Crafting An Album.

Super nice album taking it back to the essence it feels like a Collab featuring dope rhymes and dope beats. Two of my best albums this year, the second is Richmond Hill by Masta ace produced by Marco polo you should do an album review of it.

A Hip Hop Renaissance is going on my people.

Pls react to lupe fiasco samurai album

Hot 🔥 album

30:16 I hate how Clear Soul Forces don’t get put into Detroit crew convos

Check out Lupe Fiasco’s song called Hustlers

Love you dont actor it, you dont prettend it, your tears on the bring are real. This track is just... cant find a world. "Sunshine" dope

👍👍👍👍👍👍🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥💯💯💯💯💯💯

Pretty sure Com said a whole bunch, but did not curse once through the whole thing. Could be wrong, but if not, crazy in this day.

Lonesome 11/10 Dreamin´ We're On Our Way Fortunate So Many People Wise Up A GOD Stellar All Kind Of Ideas When The Sun Shines Again Everything's So Grand = all 10/10 Chi-Town Do It This Man Now And Then Outro = 6/10

Korrupt was born and raised in Philly my G

This album make you wanna BBQ under shade tree playing spades

This album reminds me a lot of "cheat codes" by Black Thought and Danger Mouse.

Through valleys and Lauryn Hills she moves mountains for me 😭🙌

AOTY 💯

10/10 ❤❤

Ahmed have you listened to ‘Music For Life’ - J Dilla, Common, Nas, Busta Rhymes

I love common, always giving me the nas vibe

The Em album is dope but this one is more my vybz 😊

Gangtarr and Inspektor Deck song is where it's at...

Posdnuos is Plug 1 from De la Soul

1:31:45 I think that's my favorite non single of the album

Digging in the crates

Listen Sweet by Common

Like Water From Chocolate is still the best Common Album with Go following

From Chi-ca-go...come and talk to me...I want the average Joe-to-see. Chitown/Maywood stand up!

I was so wrong with "This Man" rating it as 6/10. No, its a top dog track. 10/10

1:09:15 Valerie Simpson

Not "befuddled" 😂

KURUPT WUZ BORN IN PHILLY AND MOVED TO LA WITH HIZ POPZ

As for Producers how about Timbaland and 9th Wonder in the top 5

Dope album, but nobody sounds better on the soulful beats of Pete Rock like CL Smooth…..I rock with the album though.

Wise up was the cut off this album.

the crazy thing about copyright... the ones that are getting claimed aren't because of the artists..., its major record labels trying to take a piece. i know artists want to get paid, but i think they'd rather their music get out there and they can make money off of concerts, albums, merch, etc. .... what's the point of shutting this down? they (record labels) don't want you to make money if they're not getting a piece of it.., regardless if its for a good reason, regardless of how little money it may be.

"Its going to be hard to top this project for an AOTY man." Agree mate. Eminem out already - dont listen to Eminem, sorry. And then there will be NAS/PRIMO, and QTIP/LL Cool J new LP´s this year droppin as well? So its shapping up to be the best year for hip-hop in a while.

Diddy is a composer

Fire Album way better than The Death of Slim Shady

The way I passwords you don’t have to login……🤯