Fuck Guilty Pleasures: In Defense of Common

reason4rhymes.com Common: trying his best to stay out of a good beat's way
[Editor's Note: Fuck Guilty Pleasures celebrates the over-produced, commercial, artless, lowbrow music that we believe is genuinely worthwhile. Like, among the best music ever.]
Rap only exists in extremes. Don't let the polite reviews of Lil Wayne's Carter IV fool you, for instance. It got lots of polite 6 out of 10s, but people hated that thing. History will invalidate it. There are three ways rap fans remember periods of an artist's career:
1. On the ascent
2. At the top
3. After his or her prime



































