- hip hop
- 70 min
- 17 tracks
- Relativity Records
One Day It'll All Make Sense is the third studio album by rapper Common, released on September 30, 1997, on Relativity Records. It was the follow-up to his critically acclaimed album Resurrection and the last Common album to feature producer No I.D. until Common's 2011 album The Dreamer/The Believer. It was also the first album in which Common officially dropped Sense from his name.
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Spare, classical in form, grave and character-led.
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemporarynostalgic
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- AllMusic4/5 ★
- The Austin Chronicle3.5/5 ★
- Chicago Tribune3.5/4 ★
- The Independent4/5 ★
- NME8/10
- Rolling Stone4/5 ★
- The Rolling Stone Album Guide3.5/5 ★
- The Source3.5/5 ★
- Spin8/10
- The Village VoiceB+
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Tracks
- 1Introspective1:37
- 2Invocation2:14
- 3Real Nigga Quotes5:25
- 4Retrospect for Life6:23
- 5Gettin’ Down at the Amphitheater5:18
- 6Food for Funk4:10
- 7G.O.D. (Gaining One’s Definition)4:48
- 8My City5:08
- 9Hungry2:34
- 10All Night Long7:36
- 11Stolen Moments, Pt. 12:02
- 12Stolen Moments, Pt. 22:57
- 131’2 Many…3:12
- 14Stolen Moments, Pt. 3 (intro and outro by Q‐tip)3:14
- 15Making a Name for Ourselves4:53
- 16Reminding Me (of Sef)4:55
- 17Pop’s Rap, Pt. 2 (Fatherhood)3:49
17 tracks, 70 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Common
- Label
- Relativity Records
- Type
- Album
- Format
- Digital Media
- Country
- XW
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