Common One day it'll all make sense

Posted on 09.30.1997

Common
Album: One Day It’ll All Make Sense
Release Date: Sept 30, 1997
Label: Relativity

Review:

Common’s skills are unique, and his style is complete, but his most effective talents are in constructing an album of material that listens like a book. One Day is a fully realized, start-to-finish memoir of a Chicago-based African American male, and it’s equal to any challenge from the literary form. To listen to One Day is to pass through a multifaceted relationship between a father and a son, an expecting father and an impending son, and a man and his spirit, all set in the wake of a close friend’s death. (This album is deep.) One Day features cameos from the cream of the hip-hop crop, including De La Soul, Lauryn Hill (the Fugees), Erykah Badu, and an indelible Canibus. Common can take his place as the responsible father of hip-hop and a dope MC as well. —Saren Sakurai

Track Listing:
1. Introspective
2. Invocation
3. Real Nigga Quotes
4. Retrospect for Life
5. Gettin’ Down at the Amphitheater
6. Food for Funk
7. G.O.D. (Gaining One’s Definition) - C-Lo
8. My City
9. Hungry
10. All Night Long - Erykah Badu
11. Stolen Moments, Pt. 1
12. Stolen Moments, Pt. 2 - Black Thought
13. 1’2 Many...
14. Stolen Moments, Pt. 3 - Black Thought
15. Making a Name for Ourselves - Canibus
16. Reminding Me (Of Sef)
17. Pop’s Rap, Pt. 2/Fatherhood