Common: Like Water For Chocolate
Stevie Chick, New Musical Express, 6 April 2000
IT WEREN'T ALWAYS multiple Wu-pseudonyms and verbose flights of mystical lyrical fantasy down hip-hop's way. Back in the day, rappers wove their rhymes from the neighbourhood, street poets quite literally keepin' it real. Chicagoan Rasheed Lynn, aka Common, is one such rhymer, equal parts philosopher and documentarian.
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