Common's Like Water for Chocolate
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4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2022
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Over 20 years later, Common’s album Like Water for Chocolate remains a socially conscious, hip hop masterpiece. Hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot revisit an interview they did with Common during this time, plus they talk about the music, production history and lasting impact.
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Featured Songs:
Common, "The Light," Like Water For Chocolate, MCA, 2000
Common, "Time Travelin' (A Tribute to Fela)," Like Water For Chocolate, MCA, 2000
Common, "Take It EZ," Can I Borrow a Dollar?, Relativity, 1992
Common, "I Used to Love H.E.R.," Resurrection, Relativity, 1994
D'Angelo, "Brown Sugar," Brown Sugar, Virgin, 1995
Common, "Funky for You," Like Water For Chocolate, MCA, 2000
Common, "A Song for Assata," Like Water For Chocolate, MCA, 2000
Common, "Payback Is a Grandmother," Like Water For Chocolate, MCA, 2000
Common, "The 6th Sense," Like Water For Chocolate, MCA, 2000
Common, "Thelonius," Like Water For Chocolate, MCA, 2000
Common, "Geto Heaven, Pt. 2 (Remix T.S.O.I.) [feat. Macy Gray]," Like Water For Chocolate, MCA, 2000
Common, "A Film Called (Pimp)," Like Water For Chocolate, MCA, 2000
Kanye West, "We Don't Care," The College Dropout, Roc-A-Fella, 2004
Kendrick Lamar, "Institutionalized (feat. Bilal, Anna Wise & Snoop Dogg)," To Pimp a Butterfly, Top Dawg Entertainment, 2015
Kacey Musgraves, "justified," Star-Crossed, MCA Nashville, 2021
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Sound Opinions listeners, if you support us on Patreon, you get to listen to our podcast |
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| 0:29.3 | You're listening to Sound Opinions and this week we're doing a classic album |
| 0:33.3 | dissection of common socially conscious hip-hop masterpiece like Water for Chocolate. |
| 0:39.2 | I'm Jim D. Wurgatus and I'm Greg Kahn. We'll revisit an interview we did with |
| 0:44.1 | common back in 2000 around this album's release. Plus we'll talk about the production and tracks |
| 0:49.4 | in detail. Let's jump in. You know before we begin Greg why don't we talk a little bit about why |
| 0:55.5 | we wanted to do a classic album dissection of this record. We've been covering common since the |
| 1:01.3 | beginning of his career and there are various signpost albums or you can say there was a big leap |
| 1:09.5 | in his ambition and his ability to pull off those ambitions and I think this is one of those records |
| 1:14.4 | where everybody really started to pay attention to this guy. There have been tracks here and there |
| 1:18.8 | the albums up to then have been pretty good. This album put them on sort of a bigger international |
| 1:24.0 | radar and there's been no turning back since then really. And you know the work he'd done and |
| 1:30.8 | everything he stood for is suddenly inspiring these other great artists like Members of the Roots |
| 1:36.6 | and DeAngelo and Macy Gray. I mean you know common his rare kind of charisma. It's he walks into |
| 1:43.6 | a room and it's just like wow. Well exactly and you know we did a show basically an entire show |
| 1:50.1 | devoted to the great producer, the late great producer Jay Dilla a few months ago and you know |
| 1:57.2 | common connecting those worlds. Jay Dilla's world in Detroit with what was going on in Chicago you |
| 2:04.1 | know soon to be Kanye West, soon to be Lupe Fiasco. With the sole aquariums and the filly thing with |
| 2:09.8 | the roots and quest love comes kind of the common denominator you know with with all of those |
| 2:15.6 | scenes. No kidding. Without any further ado let's dive into like water for chocolate. |
| 2:26.6 | All right so who is common Mr. Cot? Lonnie Rashid Lynn born in 1972 you know he's an icon |
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