Poll Legend or Vet: Common

[Playmaker88]

Has Common ever been a top 3 rapper in any year of his career?

It's not the determining factor, just wondering.

Hes a walking triple double

 

[Goldie]

Hes a walking triple double

He's the rajon rondo of rap.

 

[Elzo69Renaissance]

Goat behavior In the streets of Nola

 

[God_Body]

Legend without question. Should get 3x the praise 3K gets. Top 10.

“Be” is the best hip-hop album of its decade.

 

[Norrin_Radd]

He has 3-4 classic albums. He's a legend.

 

[5th Letter]

Legend

 

[AP3.0]

He has 3-4 classic albums. He's a legend.

If he has 4 classics, how many does Jay have in your opinion

 

[Norrin_Radd]

If he has 4 classics, how many does Jay have in your opinion

Reasonable Doubt
Blueprint
Black Album
American Gangster

 

[AP3.0]

Hmmm

I'ma just bow out

#heisrisen

#beblessed

 

[Norrin_Radd]

Hmmm

I'ma just bow out

#heisrisen

#beblessed

Nah elaborate.

 

[AP3.0]

Nah elaborate.

It's ok brother

You think he's a legend and that's all that matters

 

[God_Body]

Eh, Common has 2. Jay has 2. It’s no rapper with 4 classics.

 

[Elzo69Renaissance]

Eh, Common has 2. Jay has 2. It’s no rapper with 4 classics.

Facts

 

[Revolver Ocelot]

Lonnie Legend

 

[Elzo69Renaissance]

And as one of the few rappers who was really gangbanging

We should appreciate the fact that he decided to be positive

 

[5 Grand]

Legend on the strength of Be

 

[RandomNegro]

That album Be, when it first came out I remember I went to New Jersey and I was hanging out in Six Flags, I had such a great time listening to it cuz that was shortly after my pops passed and i remember vibing out to it on my CD Player. Such a well produced album and I don’t think many rappers comparatively are able to make such a good album. It represents rap music at its core.

Like there’s this video on Twitter I saw and it’s a bunch of indian men huddled together and one is rapping and they’re mocking the movements of black men. Like using our physical charisma to add to the moment to make it cooler, and that’s what albums like this, to me, do for our cultural identity. It’s a soulful album. Which these people can’t really duplicate. Like when they try to sound cool on wax, it’s like ehhhh. You don’t got it.

Songs like The Corner, Love Is, Testify or even The Food when it premiered on The Chappelle Show. Such a great album. That alone is why I consider him legend.

 

[grYmes]

In 2005 Common had a legit claim at being the best rapper that year. He’s got two classics IMO (Resurrection & Be) & a slew of good albums. Legend.

 

[GNS]

Eh, Common has 2. Jay has 2. It’s no rapper with 4 classics.

What's Jay's 2?

 

[Mister B. M. Ed.]

Common been a legend since Be.