Common: Resurrection (2LP, 30th anniversary, multi-coloured swirl vinyl) [GET ON DOWN]

Why you'll love it

This 30th anniversary 2LP set comes on multi-coloured swirl vinyl in a gatefold jacket with a wraparound obi and extended liner notes, limited to 2,000 copies. In 1998 The Source named Resurrection one of its 100 Best Hip Hop Albums.

This edition

• 2LP set
• Multi-coloured swirl vinyl
• 30th anniversary edition
• Limited to 2,000 copies
• Gatefold jacket
• Wraparound obi strip
• Extended liner notes

About the album

Long before the world knew him by one word, Common was a young Chicago rapper still going by Common Sense. He cut Resurrection in 1994 at Battery Studios in Chicago with his friend No I.D. handling almost all of the beats, a warm, jazzy, sample-rich sound built from dusty records.

"I Used to Love H.E.R." is the one everybody knows, a love story that slowly reveals itself as a story about hip hop itself. "Book of Life" and "In My Own World (Check the Method)" show off his wordplay, and the album closes with "Pop's Rap," the first of the spoken-word pieces his father, Lonnie "Pops" Lynn, would add to his records. This set adds "Resurrection '95" and remixes from Large Professor.

Rolling Stone put it in the same breath as Illmatic and Ready to Die at the time. Thirty years on, his dad still gets the last word, which is a family arrangement we can all respect.

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Tracklist

Listen

On Get On Down / Relativity (cat# GET51541-LP), a reissue of the 1994 album.