- hip hop, rap, conscious hip hop
- 78 min
- 16 tracks
- Geffen
Like Water for Chocolate is the fourth studio album by American rapper Common, released on March 28, 2000, through MCA Records. It was Common's first major label album and was both a critical and commercial breakthrough, receiving widespread acclaim from major magazine publications and selling 70,000 copies in its first week.
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Spare, character-led, contemporary and classical in form.
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
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- AllMusic4.5/5 ★
- Consumer GuideA−
- Entertainment WeeklyB
- NME8/10
- Pitchfork8.7/10
- Rolling Stone3.5/5 ★
- The Rolling Stone Album Guide4/5 ★
- The Source4/5 ★
- Spin8/10
- USA Today3.5/4 ★
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Tracks
- 1Time Travelin’ (A Tribute to Fela)6:38
- 2Heat3:41
- 3Cold Blooded4:59
- 4Dooinit3:38
- 5The Light4:22
- 6Funky for You5:56
- 7The Questions4:09
- 8Time Travelin’ (reprise)1:33
- 9The 6th Sense5:19
- 10A Film Called (Pimp)6:05
- 11Nag Champa (Afrodisiac for the World)5:11
- 12Thelonius4:42
- 13Payback Is a Grandmother4:31
- 14Geto Heaven Remix T.S.O.I.5:02
- 15A Song for Assata6:49
- 16Pops Rap III… All My Children5:09
16 tracks, 78 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Common
- Label
- Geffen
- Type
- Album
- Format
- Digital Media
- Country
- XW
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