- hip hop
- 58 min
- 14 tracks
- Warner Bros. Records
The Dreamer/The Believer is the ninth studio album by American rapper Common. It was released in the UK on December 19, 2011 and in the US on December 20 through Warner Bros. Records alongside Common's newly launched Think Common Music Inc. Common's longtime friend and frequent collaborator No I.D. handled the album's production entirely himself.
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Character
Spare, character-led, grave and classical in form.
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
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Metacritic 74/100
- AllMusic3.5/5 ★
- Chicago Tribune3/4 ★
- Entertainment WeeklyA−
- The Independent5/5 ★
- Pitchfork7.6/10
- PopMatters6/10
- Rolling Stone3/5 ★
- Slant Magazine3.5/5 ★
- USA Today3.5/4 ★
- XXL4/5 ★
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Tracks
- 1The Dreamer5:54
- 2Ghetto Dreams3:54
- 3Blue Sky4:04
- 4Sweet3:37
- 5Gold4:19
- 6Lovin’ I Lost3:51
- 7Raw (How You Like It)3:56
- 8Cloth4:34
- 9Celebrate4:03
- 10Windows4:00
- 11The Believer3:44
- 12Pops Belief4:55
- 13The Believer (remix)3:23
- 14Ghetto Dreams (remix)3:37
14 tracks, 58 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Common
- Label
- Warner Bros. Records
- Released
- December 20, 2011
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- US
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