- Love 4 J Knight
- Remixed: Kool & the Gang
- The Duffy Experience
- Forever Platinum
- Confessions of an R&B Singer
- Cox Rewind
- Danny’s Second Face
- The Fix Is In
- Buggin’ Out Over Bugnanas
- Welcome Home Danny
- Badu’s Sloppy Attempt at an Album
- Fading into Popularity
- Drugged Expectations
- A Trip Down Memory Lane with Jordan Knight
- Same Joey Mac
- When Bad Albums Happen To Half-Decent Talent
- It’s Good to Be Troubled
- I Now Understand the Underwhelming Feeling for Keri Hilson
- A Chronicles Legend
- Building New Kids Legend
- A New Kids Xmas
- Realizing A Phenomenon
- Will You Be Under Lyrical Mind Control?
- Rock Out with Fefe
- To Believe or Not to Believe…
- Guns ‘N Roses: When They Rocked
- Monáe and Her Out of This World Debut
- Have to be in the mood for XTC
- It Has All Gone Right
- BEP: When There Were Three
- The Foolishness of Monkey Business
- Long Live The Dutches of Crap!
- The Retardation of BEP
- If Only It Truly Was the End
- No Real Shock, Still Searching for Value
- Is There Still Room for Musiq
- A Shockless Attempt At Creating Value
- Not So Lifted
- Erykah’s Underground World
- Failed Renegotiations
- Reliving the Magic That Is the Commadores
- Arguing With A Tree Is Fun
- Monáe’s Audition is “Cute”
- In the Heights Soundtrack
- Has Shakira Been Downgraded to be the New Beyonce?
- Is It His World, Or Is He A Squirrel Trying To Get A nut In Ours?
- ATBAN Klan Dismissed
- It’s Official: I’m As Bored As He Sounds
- Does Richie Still Have What It Takes?
- Falling In Love with Boyz II Men All Over Again
- I’m Sold On Blue October’s History
- What Is The Answer?
- It’s Time For Cypress Hill To Be Shut Down
- Swiss Beats Creates Hyped Mediocracy
- It Needs To Be Treated Just As Raydiation – With Hazmat Suites
- Next Stop – Snorezville
- A Soulful Life
- The Amazement of Nina Simone
- Buble: The Crooner of Remakes
- Sweet Music Created Out Of Bitterness
- Hamilton’s Made His Point
- End of an Empire
- Breaking Through The Madness
- No Go For Coco
- Are Boyz II Men The Remedy?
- Schooling Listeners but Not Preachy
- Keeping My Hands All Over Maroon 5
- Joy or Misery?
- The Id of Gray
Album: Universal Mind control
Artist(s): Common
Official/Original Drop Date: December 9, 2008
Grade: B-
Blade(s): 7.5
Bottom-line: May be worth the money for die-hards
Review: Common proves time and time again that he is anything but common. From sharing his ideas on beauty he brings new understanding on hip hop. Being the political ideas slipped in, I’ll refrain and keep to the music.
Going with the musical vibes of loving hip hop, Common continues to bring a connection to himself and a genre gone array. As hard as he tries most of the credibility for the arena has been lost with much of the fluff that has invaded. The 90s feel of the Mind Control album is strong but is it strong enough to revive the beauty that was once hip hop? Unfortunately not. Many songs were strongly liked on this album but I would only see myself taking about 3 or 5 of the tracks along for an mp3 ride. The others would only be visited on special nostalgic days.
Though I like Common, some of the songs were simply not vibing with me when it came to connecting and finding a deep love. Guess I’ll go back to Like Water for Chocolate and relive our first musical encounter together. 7.5 blades and a B- for this album.
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