It got the name One Day It'll All Make Sense and hit the stores in 1997. It took Common three years to prepare his third studio work. Rashid did not hesitate long to simply reduce his pseudonym to Common. It became necessary after the same called ska band had threatened him with a claim for copycat. As soon as Common Sense had got himself a big name he was forced to change it. This came to hurt the prominent ‘gangster’ Ice Cube which led to a conflict between the two performers, yet never hindered the charts run of the album itself. It was heavily promoted by the track I Used to Love H.E.R., in some way criticizing the gangsta trend of hip-hop. In two years, Common Sense released the second album, Resurrection. The composition Take It EZ made a great contribution to the album’s popularity among the supporters of the so called intelligent hip-hop widely represented by A Tribe Called Quest, and Gang Starr. In 1992 Rashid produced his first solo album, Can I Borrow a Dollar? He picked up the Common Sense stage name. However, he found he was more into rap rather than into education and came back to music. He left it shortly after, with an intention to study business. As soon as in his high school years, Rashid formed his first band to be called C.D.R. on Main a family of a teacher and ex-basketball player who used to be an average NBA professional. This is one of the most underrated hip-hop debuts of the '90s.Common is a celebrated rapper from Chicago who got famous for producing a new wave of hip-hop adding elements of new-age, jazz and funk. Stand-out tracks such as "Charms Alarm," "Take It EZ," and the only outside production, the Beatnuts' characteristically bell-driven "Heidi Hoe," are calls to arms to all hangers-on and fakers in the hip-hop community. Though sometimes lighthearted to the point of aimlessness and occasionally veering into harder-hitting (vaguely misogynistic) sentiments, Can I Borrow a Dollar? acted, for the most part, as an antidote to the exaggeratedly hardcore rhymes of a lot of early-'90s hip-hop. His lyrics are packed with allusions and references to pop and street culture nearly as eclectic as those of the Beastie Boys. The production perfectly complements Common Sense's hiccuping/singsongy vocal style and involved rhymes. They opt for a spare, minimalist production that prominently features understated keyboard loops over simple drum tracks, occasionally augmented by saxophone or flute for an overall jazzy, laid-back feel. Drk Productions ( Immenslope and Twilite Tone). Can I Borrow a Dollar? features the fabulous, oddly muted production of 2 Pc. A former Source magazine "Unsigned Hype" winner, Common Sense almost single-handedly put Chicago hip-hop on the map in the early '90s with his excellent debut, Can I Borrow a Dollar?, which displayed a truly unique sound that, nevertheless, situated the rapper somewhere between the ground staked out by A Tribe Called Quest and Gang Starr.
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