I Used To Love H.E.R.

The best twist in music lyric history? On 7' for the first time ever, one of the most important rap records ever. It's timeless, it's genius, it's just pure beautiful brilliance. It's Common's masterpiece. One of the best songs in all hip-hop history, 'I Used To Love H.E.R.' was the first single from Common's eternal 1994 LP, Resurrection. He personifies hip-hop as an ode to the art form he once loved, lamenting how the genre became too commercialised and, due to a mass influx of mainstream rap in the 90s, some of the purity and freshness of the culture was being lost. Common uses a first-person romance narrative to detail the history of hip-hop, resulting in an extended metaphor that's sophisticated, clever, and delivers a moral message that touched millions of people and still absolutely blows minds at the song's conclusion: ''Cause who we're talkin' about, y'all, is hip-hop' Perfectly produced by No ID and incorporating a gorgeous, melancholic sample of George Benson's 'The Changing World', the plaintive sonic landscape provided the ideal foundation for Common's innovative storytelling. Almost 30 years later, 'I Used To Love H.E.R.' remains one the most significant moments in hip-hop: a classic in every sense of the word. Common did discuss the true meaning of the track in a 1995 interview on 'Yo! MTV Raps', stating: 'H.E.R. stands for Hip-Hop in its Essence is Real. And all I'm talking about his how I first came into contact with hip-hop music and how it evolved int

Tracks

1~1~A I Used To Love H.E.R.
1~2~B Communism

Details

Format: Vinyl 7"
Artist: Common Sense
Release Date: 16 February 2023
Genre: Rap & Hip-Hop
Label: BE WITH RECORDS
Distributor: Rocket Group