
Dusty jazz loops and sharp social observation from the South Side. A pivotal 1994 document that turned hip-hop into a living, breathing metaphor.
The record where Common stopped being a rapper and started being a poet.
A thoughtful, jazz-inflected meditation on growth and the state of a culture.
The instrumentation foregrounds piano notably more than the catalogue usually does.

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