Common - I Used To Love H.E.R.

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"I Used to Love H.E.R." is a hip hop song by the Chicago-born rapper Common. Released on the 1994 album Resurrection, "I Used to Love H.E.R." has since become one of Common's best known songs. It is often regarded by hip hop purists as one of the greatest hip-hop recordings ever. The lyrics use a woman that Common used to love as a metaphor for hip hop. The song criticizes the direction hip hop music was taking during the mid-1990s, with the popularity of West Coast G-Funk rap. In the song, Common makes an analogy comparing the degradation of a woman with the deterioration of hip hop music after its commercial success forced it into the mainstream. (Strangely, despite this song's marginal popularity and some fans' agreement with the points he raises through it, hip hop in general has continued to go the direction that Common is criticizing and is still going in that direction to this very day.) The song ignited the hip-hop feud with West Coast Rapper, Ice Cube, and helped fuel the growing animosity towards the West Coast Hip-Hop scene during the early stages of the East Coast-West Coast rivalry. Recently, Kanye West produced a track called "I Still Love H.E.R."
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