Common Sense, representing Chicago and the rest of the underrepresented Midwest, delivers the hip-hop equivalent of a fastball on Resurrection, his follow-up to 1992's Can I Borrow a Dollar?. Too honest to play mean and too street to be alternative, rapper Rashied Lynn instead draws his alter ego, Common Sense, as someone very close to himself: a smart young urbanite, raised and molded by hip-hop. It's this sensibility that gives birth to a bittersweet anthem like "I … mehrUsed to Love H.E.R.," an extended conceit that casts hip-hop itself as Everyrapper's lost love: "I met this girl when I was 10 years old / And what I loved the most was she had so much soul ..." On the whole, though, his rhymes and the familiar light-jazz backing tracks are rarely spectacular--at least not enough to dent the walls of the form. But MOR hip-hop, like baseball, has always been a game of inches, so chances are good that the kid will squeeze by with the right attitude, even if his rap doesn't quite live up. --Roni Sarig weniger
CD 1
01 - Resurrection
02 - I Used To Love H.E.R.
03 - Watermelon
04 - Book Of Life… mehr
05 - In My Own World (Check The Method)
06 - Another Wasted Nite With...
07 - Nuthin' To Do
08 - Communism
09 - Wmoe
10 - Thisisme
11 - Orange Pineapple Juice
12 - Chapter 13 (Rich Man Vs. Poor Man)
13 - Maintaining
14 - Sum Sh*T I Wrote
15 - Pop's Rap weniger