# 6 - Common Sense - Resurrection
The first time I saw the video for "I Used To Love H.E.R." (back when Rap City was worth watching), like anyone else I was in awe at the conclusion. I had to listen closer the next time it came on. When the title song came out as a video he was 2 for 2, but my funds were still too slim to purchase the album. Summer 1998, a female I began courting had good tastes in music and she heavily recommended this album.

Insane wordplay all throughout, plus it was the first grown man hip-hop lp I heard with songs like "Thisisme", "Nuthin To Do", and "Book Of Life." He matured in a major way from the squeaky voiced misogynistic alcoholic that made "Can I Borrow A Dollar?" I believe it had to have some kind of an influence on "Mos Def and Talib Kweli are Black Star", with Kweli admitting to Com being his favorite MC in that album's liner notes. In addition was a further continuation of the jazz rap subculture popularized by A Tribe Called Quest and Digable Planets amongst others, with No I.D. delivering stellar work behind the boards.

This was the album most fans would hold his future work up to. He's never released a weak lp since 94 (yes Im including "Electric Circus"), but this album was special because he started to take himself serious just entering adulthood.