Ahh, back when Common still had some Sense and had yet to be thrown off the mountain by Muhammad for making everybody too aware of AIDS, which Muhammad created to kill off people who dress like Theo Huxtable's jazz-major friends from college. Funny how times change, because I sort of cringe most of the time when I see Common nowadays, because his style is predictable and I can guess exactly how he's going to rhyme and how it's going to make me feel. But Resurrection, at that point, was my favorite tape ever. Seriously, his lyrical style, at that time, was completely amazing to me, and it was on this record, because I remember having that "Brother, Can You Spare a Dollar" tape or whatever, and thinking it sucked, but then Rap City had the video for "Soul by the Pound" which was awesome. I boughted the single, and the album version sucked, but the remix, which was the video, was double-tough and super-duper, as us white people used to describe killer shit back then. Resurrection is still, when I listen to it, one of those great tapes that shifted how I thought about writing the wack-ass shit I write... thinking back to driving the Mexicans to work at shitty Creative Contracting in my stupid girlfriend's stupid Subaru stationwagon with that "VISUALIZE WHIRLED PEAS" bumper sticker she thought was so high-lariously clever, bumping this shit till it broke both her back speakers. I think I'm gonna play this tape again right now, motherfucker, Muhammad be damned.
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