Let love / Common.
Material type:
MusicPublisher number: LVR00706 | Loma Vista RecordingsPublisher: [Beverly Hills, California] : Loma Vista Recordings, [2019]Distributor: Los Angeles, CA : distributed by Concord Music Group, Inc. Copyright date: ℗2019Edition: [Explicit version]Description: 1 audio disc (46 min., 37 sec.) : digital, CD audio, stereo ; 4 3/4 inContent type: - performed music
- audio
- audio disc
- Produced by Karriem Riggins ; co-produced by Burniss Travis, Samora Pinderhughes, and J-Dilla (HER love) ; executive producers, Common, Nicole Hegeman.
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Northport Library | CD | HIP-HOP Common | Available | 33111009527488 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Should Common choose to radically change course with his 13th solo album, number 12, Let Love, could be considered the third part of a trilogy that started with Black America Again and continued with the rapper's self-titled album as part of August Greene. Like those LPs from 2016 and 2018, Let Love involves Karriem Riggins on production and drums, Samora Pinderhughes on keyboards and vocals, and Burniss Travis on bass. Pinderhughes and Travis are more involved here -- as writing and production partners -- than on the preceding sessions. The core trio of instrumentalists continues to communicate with fluid, deceptively intricate precision, occasionally easy to mistake for Riggins' keenly sourced, artfully looped, and sparingly placed samples. August Greene was more reflective and somber than Black America Again, and this continues the trend, enhanced with consistently tender secondary vocals from Pinderhughes, BJ the Chicago Kid, Jill Scott, Dwele, Daniel Caesar, Leon Bridges, and Jonathan McReynolds. They're all in sympathetic support of a rapper who, 27 years after his recorded debut and a few months following the publishing of his memoir, has never been more open. In the lead-off track "Good Morning Love," Common rhymes about seeing his therapist, declaring "as a black man, I feel I should be sharin' this," while in "Show Me That You Love Me," he relates a humbling late-night discussion with his daughter about his parental shortcomings. Recollections of his upbringing get as serious as they do in his book, detailing in "Memories of Home" his childhood struggle to cope with traumatic emotional shock. Equally emblematic of Common's growth is "HER Love," a proper full-blown sequel to "I Used to Love H.E.R." (H.E.R. being acronymic for "Hip-hop in its essence is real"). The title switch alone signals maturity and an emphasis on positivity -- the gratitude he feels toward the art form in 2019 -- and a breezy, excavated J Dilla beat deepens its resonance. The benevolent spirit in this and almost all of the other tracks makes the strong-arming "Hercules" and the retribution tale "Fifth Story" seem like misplaced throw-ins. ~ Andy Kellman
Title from disc label.
Compact disc.
Parental advisory; explicit content.
Performed by Common ; additional vocals ; instrumental accompaniment.
Produced by Karriem Riggins ; co-produced by Burniss Travis, Samora Pinderhughes, and J-Dilla (HER love) ; executive producers, Common, Nicole Hegeman.
Notes by Common and full credits in English (6 pages : portraits) inserted in container.
Good morning love / written by Lonnie Lynn, Samora Pinderhughes, Burniss Travis, James Poyser and Karriem Riggins (featuring Samora Pinderhughes) (5:31) -- HER love / written by Lonnie Lynn, Samora Pinderhughes, Burniss Travis, James Poyser, A. Gardner and Karriem Riggins (featuring Daniel Caesar w/ special guest Dwele) (4:29) -- Dwele's interlude / written by A. Gardner, Burniss Travis and Samora Pinderhughes (1:09) -- Hercules / written by Lonnie Lynn, Samora Pinderhughes, Burniss Travis, Kasseem Dean, and Karriem Riggins (featuring Swizz Beatz) (2:54) -- Fifth story / written by Lonnie Lynn, Samora Pinderhughes, Burniss Travis and Karriem Riggins (featuring Leikeli47) (5:18) -- Forever your love / written by Lonnie Lynn, Samora Pinderhughes, Burniss Travis, Karriem Riggins, BJ the Chicago Kid and Isaiah Sharkey (featuring BJ the Chicago Kid) (3:39) -- Leaders (crib love) / written by Lonnie Lynn, Samora Pinderhughes, Burniss Travis, Alain Macklovitch, and Karriem Riggins (featuring A-Track) (3:41) -- Memories of home / written by Lonnie Lynn, Samora Pinderhughes, Burniss Travis, Karriem Riggins and Bryan James Sledge (featuring BJ the Chicago Kid and Samora Pinderhughes) (4:08) -- Show me that you love / written by Lonnie Lynn, Samora Pinderhughes, Burniss Travis, Karriem Riggins and Jill Scott (featuring Jill Scott and Samora Pinderhughes) (7:30) -- My fancy free future love / written by Lonnie Lynn, Isaiah Sharkey, Nicholas Payton, Karriem Riggins and Ron Brown (4:21) -- God is love / written by Lonnie Lynn, Samora Pinderhughes, Burniss Travis, James Poyser, Karriem Riggins, Leon Bridges and Jonathan McReynolds (featuring Leon Bridges and Jonathan McReynolds) (3:57).