One Day It'll All Make Sense

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.

One Day It'll All Make Sense
Studio album by
Common
ReleasedSeptember 30, 1997
GenreHip hop
Length70:10
LabelRelativity
Producer
Common chronology
Resurrection
(1994)		 One Day It'll All Make Sense
(1997)		 Like Water for Chocolate
(2000)
Singles from One Day It'll All Make Sense
  1. "Retrospect for Life"
    Released: July 29, 1997
  2. "Reminding Me (Of Sef)"
    Released: August 5, 1997
  3. "All Night Long"
    Released: January 25, 1998

Critical reception
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
The Austin Chronicle[2]
Chicago Tribune[3]
The Independent[4]
NME8/10[5]
Rolling Stone[6]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[7]
The Source3.5/5[8]
Spin8/10[9]
The Village VoiceB+[10]

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
# Title Length Performer(s) Songwriters Producer(s)
1 "Introspective" 1:36 Common Lonnie Lynn
Ernest Wilson		 No I.D.
2 "Invocation" 2:14 Common Lonnie Lynn
Ernest Wilson		 No I.D.
3 "Real Nigga Quotes" 5:24 Common Lonnie Lynn
Doug Thomas		 Dug Infinite
4 "Retrospect for Life" 6:23 Common
Lauryn Hill
Vere Isaacs (bass)		 Lonnie Lynn
James Poyser
Ernest Wilson
Stevie Wonder
Syreeta Wright		 James Poyser
No I.D.
5 "Gettin' Down at the Amphitheater" 5:18 Common
De La Soul (Posdnuos and Trugoy)		 Lonnie Lynn
David Jolicoeur
Kelvin Mercer
Ernest Wilson		 No I.D.
6 "Food for Funk" 4:10 Common Lonnie Lynn
Ernest Wilson		 No I.D.
7 "G.O.D. (Gaining One's Definition)" 4:47 Cee-Lo
Common		 Lonnie Lynn
Ernest Wilson
Cornell Newhill
Thomas Burton		 No I.D.
Spike Rebel
8 "My City" 5:07 Common
Malik Yusef
Alvin Rogers (saxophone)
Demetrions Kelly (bass)		 Malik Yusef
Cornell Newhill		 Spike Rebel
9 "Hungry" 2:33 Common Lonnie Lynn
Ernest Wilson		 No I.D.
10 "All Night Long" 7:35 Common
Erykah Badu		 Lonnie Lynn
James Poyser
Erykah Badu
Ahmir Thompson		 The Roots
11 "Stolen Moments, Pt. 1" 2:02 Common Lonnie Lynn
Ernest Wilson		 No I.D.
12 "Stolen Moments, Pt. 2" 2:57 Black Thought
Common		 Lonnie Lynn
Ernest Wilson		 No I.D.
13 "1'2 Many..." 3:12 Common Lonnie Lynn
Doug Thomas		 Dug Infinite
14 "Stolen Moments, Pt. 3" 3:13 Common
Q-Tip		 Lonnie Lynn
Ernest Wilson		 No I.D.
15 "Making a Name for Ourselves" 4:53 Canibus
Common		 Lonnie Lynn
Germaine Williams		 No I.D.
16 "Reminding Me (Of Sef)" 4:55 Chantay Savage
Common
Spike Rebel (keyboards)		 Lonnie Lynn
Anthony Craig		 Ynot
17 "Pop's Rap, Pt. 2 / Fatherhood" 3:49 Common
Lonnie "Pops" Lynn
Alan Jay Palmer (piano)
Billy Johnson (bass)
Karriem Riggins (drums)		 Lonnie Lynn
Karriem Riggins		 Karriem Riggins

Charts
Year Album Chart positions
Billboard 200 Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums
1997 One Day It'll All Make Sense 62 12

Singles
Year Song Chart positions
Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks Hot Rap Singles Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales
1997 "Reminding Me (Of Sef)" 57 9 21
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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. 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. "Common: One Day It'll All Make Sense". The Source. No. 98. November 1997. p. 160.
  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.


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