Finding Forever
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| Finding Forever | ||
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| Studio album by Common | ||
| Released | July 10, 2007 [1] | |
| Recorded | 2006-2007 | |
| Genre | Conscious hip hop Alternative hip hop |
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| Label | GOOD Music Geffen Records |
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| Producer(s) | Kanye West J Dilla will.i.am |
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| Common chronology | ||
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| Be (2005) |
Finding Forever (2007) |
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Finding Forever is the title of rapper Common's forthcoming 7th studio album. Common explains that "Finding Forever really means to find a place in music where you can exist forever. Music can be forever if you make it from the heart, if you make it from the soul and it’s good. And I look at music like Bob Marley's or Marvin Gaye's or Stevie Wonder's or A Tribe Called Quest's, that’s forever music. And I’m continuing on the quest to make forever music."
Common has big plans for the album, "I want to work with Kanye again," Common said. "And I would love to work with Dr. Dre because it’ll be something fresh for me because I feel like he’s someone who is a classic producer. I like people who can consistently do it throughout time and be great and I feel that Dr. Dre is one of those individuals."
"And now with the death of J Dilla and other things, you start thinking about forever lasting for real through music," he continued. "Jay Dee will last forever through his music and hopefully generations down the line will know about Common through his music. And it's also saying: I been doing this for a nice period of time, so I'm trying to find the place where I can keep existing in the game and make music I love."
Common and Kanye are still a ways off from Finding Forever's completion, but there's talk that the first single might be a record called "The Glory," which Com described as "a hard, raw joint."
" 'The Glory' is a street joint," he said. "It's one of those soulful songs I feel could touch the streets and beyond. That's the song Kanye wants for the first single, so we'll see. 'Cause we're cooking up a lot more songs. ... I don't ever want to repeat myself, but we have some of that raw essence of what hip-hop is, what Be has been, what Common has been — that's bringing that soul and beats and rhymes and the spirit. We have that, as well as some progression on the music."
It has also been confirmed that the album contains the song "A Dream" (featuring and produced by will.i.am), which is also found on the soundtrack of the movie Freedom Writers.
Common debuted the 1st single for the album, "South Side," on VH1's Super Bowl Pre Bash. The song features Kanye West. Common and Kanye West also made a version called "South Side Super Bowl" about the NFC Champion Chicago Bears. Also the album will contain a highly anticipated collaboration with rapper Nas that was produced by Kanye West called "The Ambassadors."
[edit] Confirmed Tracks
- "The People" (featuring Dwele) (Produced By Kanye West)[2]
- "A Dream" (featuring will.i.am) (Produced By will.i.am)
- "The Ambassadors" (featuring Nas) (Produced By Kanye West)
- "Southside" (featuring Kanye West) (Produced By Kanye West)
- "Black Maybe" (featuring Bilal) (Produced By Kanye West)[3]
- "I Want You" (Produced by will.i.am)[4]
- "Misunderstood" (Produced By Devo Springsteen)[5]
- "Drivin' Me Wild" (featuring Lily Allen (Produced by Kanye West)[6]
- "So Far to Go" (featuring D’Angelo) (Produced by Jay Dilla)[7]
- "Break My Heart" (Produced by Kanye West)[8]
- "Start the Show" (Produced by Kanye West)[9]
[edit] References
[edit] External Links
- Common, Kanye Going For 'Glory' On Raw, Soulful New Songs
- Common Kanye New Album Finding Forever
- Go West, Young Man
- Kanye Says He Won't Do "Fast Food" Music
| Common |
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| Discography |
| Studio albums |
| Can I Borrow a Dollar? (1992) | Resurrection (1994) | One Day It'll All Make Sense (1997) | Like Water for Chocolate (2000) | Electric Circus (2002) | Be (2005) | Finding Forever (2007) |
| Singles |
| "Take It EZ" | "Breaker 1/9" | "Soul by the Pound" | "I Used to Love H.E.R." | "Resurrection" | "The Bitch in Yoo" | "Retrospect for Life" | "Reminding Me (Of Sef)" | "All Night Long" | "One-Nine-Nine-Nine" | "Car Horn" | "The 6th Sense" | "Funky for You" | "The Light" | "Geto Heaven Remix T.S.O.I. (The Sound of Illadelph)" | "While I'm Dancin'" | "Come Close" | "The Food" | "The Corner" | "Go!" | "Testify" |
| See Also |
| Soulquarians | Native Tongues Posse | Lonnie Lynn | GOOD Music | List of Common songs | Smokin' Aces | American Gangster |
