One Day It'll All Make Sense

1997 studio album by Common

One Day It'll All Make Sense is the third studio album by rapper Common, released on September 30, 1997, on Relativity Records. It was the follow-up to his critically acclaimed album Resurrection and the last Common album to feature producer No I.D. until Common's 2011 album The Dreamer/The Believer. It was also the first album in which Common officially dropped Sense from his name.

Critical reception

Reviewing for The Village Voice in January 1998, Robert Christgau wrote of the album:

With no notable penchant for ear candy or mass ass appeal, this Chicago rhymer carves out an unpretentious artistic space that couldn't have existed before hip hop – no singer-songwriter's everyday ruminations come near such social content or physical form. Common raps about black life as most black people live it and black manhood as most young black men grow into it, and while his flow isn't primed for the dance floor, it's complex and full-bodied in a way few, you know, white artists could imitate, much less make up. Nor is that the only way he's complex--guy spends considerable time dancing in his head.^[10]

Track listing

Charts

Singles

References

1. Stanley, Leo. "One Day It'll All Make Sense – Common". AllMusic. Retrieved March 30, 2020.
2. Gray, Christopher (October 24, 1997). "Common: One Day It'll All Make Sense (Relativity)". The Austin Chronicle. Retrieved March 30, 2020.
3. Kot, Greg (October 10, 1997). "Common: One Day It'll All Make Sense (Relativity)". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved March 30, 2020.
4. "Pop: Album reviews". The Independent. October 18, 1997. Archived from the original on 2022-05-24. Retrieved March 30, 2020.
5. Fadele, Dele (October 25, 1997). "Common – One Day It'll All Make Sense". NME. Archived from the original on August 17, 2000. Retrieved March 30, 2020.
6. Powell, Kevin (January 22, 1998). "One Day It'll All Make Sense". Rolling Stone. Retrieved March 30, 2020.
7. McLeod, Kembrew (2004). "Common". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. p. 187. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
8. Patel, Joseph "Jazzbo" (November 1997). "Common: One Day It'll All Make Sense". The Source. No. 98. p. 160. Archived from the original on January 23, 2000. Retrieved July 19, 2024.
9. Coker, Cheo Hodari (December 1997). "Common: One Day It'll All Make Sense". Spin. Vol. 13, no. 9. p. 156. Retrieved March 30, 2020.
10. Christgau, Robert (January 27, 1998). "Consumer Guide". The Village Voice. Retrieved March 30, 2020.

External links

• One Day It'll All Make Sense at Discogs (list of releases)