| Common – I Used To Love H.E.R. Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Is that truely hip hop in its essence? Hip-hop has many different genres within itself, it depends on what the listener chooses to define as "H.E.R". | |
| Common – I Used To Love H.E.R. Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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"Moved to California blew the bitch up/ and put a gangsta twist on her" (Westside slaughterhouse, Mack 10) |
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| Common – I Used To Love H.E.R. Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I Used to Love H.E.R, "I Used to Love Hip Hop in its Essence and Realness" by Common has to by far be one of the greatest songs in hip-hop history. Unlike many artist today talking about money, promoting a clothing line, or degrating women; Common keeps hip-hop clean and speaks nothing less than realness. A young corrupted girl is the analogy used for hip-hop, and their rocky relationship throughout the years. A true mastermind of rhyme and flow, Common puts where hip-hop has gone and where it is going into a perfectly crafted track. Talkin' about popping glocks serving rocks and hitting switches Now she’s a gangsta rolling with gangsta bitches Always smokin’ blunts and getting drunk Telling me sad stories, now she only fucks with the funk Stressing how hard core and real she is She was really the realest before she got into show-biz I did her not just to say I did it But im committed but so many niggas hit it That she’s just not the same letting all the groupies do her I see niggas slammin’ her and taking her to the sewer But imma take her back hopin’ that shit stop Cause who im talking ‘bout ya’ll is hip hop. (50-61) Now hip hop has made a drastic change. Violence and drugs are the primary topics in most songs. In the phrase “Stressin’ how hardcore she is/she was really the realest before she got into show-biz.” Artists feel the need to feel tough and they stress how "gangster" and "hood" they are in every track, yet hip-hop was at its realest before it became a major trend. He admits to having “did her,” as in being a part of hip hop but unlike most who did, he was commited. It is also stated that once so many artists go a hold of this new genre of music, it was never the same. “I see niggas slammin her and taking her to the sewer,” is a reference to the abuse believed that hip hop endured while going through these changes. The last two lines show his love for the music, and that he will not abandon it in hopes that things will go back to how they once were. |
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