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The Best Hip-Hop of 2007From Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five to a dope album named Desire, hip-hop showed growth in 2007. [11 December 2007] ColumnsLike Water for Chocolate: Common’s Recipe for Progressive Hip-HopLike the surreal Laura Esquivel novel that Rashid 'Lonnie' Lynn invokes in the title of his brilliant new release Like Water for Chocolate. [5 May 2000] (more Critical Noire) Reviews
Common: Universal Mind ControlPharrell and his Neptunes exert a svengali-like control over the record, helping Common release his most contrived and banal album to date. [16 December 2008] 
Common: Thisisme ThenHerein lies another industry rule. Record companies count on us to buy the same music (at least) twice. [27 November 2007] 
Common: Finding ForeverAs good as Finding Forever is -- and it's very good -- it's hard to imagine it vaulting Common into superstar status. It's the curse of being sly and thoughtful. [30 July 2007] 
Common: BeElectric Circus pushed the boundaries of hip-hop -- a psychedelic trip to hip-hop's great beyond -- Be just finds a world-wide Common back home standing on the corner. But you can't go home again and no matter how much he wishes, the Common of Can I Borrow a Dollar? is not the same Common of Be -- and thank God for that. [31 May 2005] News
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