Common ft. Pharrell - Universal Mind Control

This is the newest leak from Common’s new album. It was repeatedly mentioned that because Kanye was too busy, Common was going to call on Pharrell and a few others to produce his new album. Now I have always been and probably always be a big Pharrell fan, even though he got his style from everyone from Stevie Wonder, Prince, early Timbaland, and so forth.

This new leak though brings us back to the mid 80s house and club hiphop with the tinny drum samples, the computer sounding synths and all other kinds of noises like someone found their very first synth and drum machine.

Common’s flow does remind me of “I am Music” from his Electric Circus album, which if I am correct was also a Neptunes production. I think this is a good song, a welcome flip from “Finding Forever” and good to see Common mix it up, but I hope the whole album isn’t going to be like this.

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