Should I go and see Common?

imagine common on stage while its all going off and the band are held back till the last song. imagine his big wobbly bobble hat and common breakdancing.
the only bad thing is the incessant "who loves god?" shit.

Common and Pete Rock just announced a show at Webster Hall. Tickets are only Common and Pete Rock just announced a show at Webster Hall. Tickets are only $200 (though if you buy online, axs fees will probably be like $10 or $12). They're already doing a run of Blue Note shows that sold out fast so this was an extremely nice gesture on their part, IMHO.

Apologies, copy and paste error there caused a big repeat.

And tickets are TWENTY dollars, not 200.

I tried listening to the album but just couldn't take Common

I went to the show and it was pretty awesome. They actually made up the set to look like a wood-paneled basement from the late 1970s or early 1980s, complete with crates of actual vinyl records. At one point, DJ Dummy and Pete Rock essentially gave a demonstration on how to make a beat the way they did it in the '80s, with actual vintage equipment. Posdnuos dropped by and did three numbers with them (including "Me Myself and I"), Geechi Suede also did a couple of numbers as well, but it was clearly Common's show, especially when he found himself unexpectedly freestyling (when he recognized someone who had a sign that said he brought his mother on her birthday, when a random fan was brought on the stage and he wooed her with a freestyle based on whatever details she gave of herself - he never laid a finger on her, but she was more than happy to caress his bald, sweaty head with a handkerchief over and over again). He even weaved in his firm but gentle arguments for everyone to keep the upcoming election in mind. Towards the end, he gave a pretty strong argument for having some foresight and not being apathetic, drawing a connection between the failure to save Marcellus Williams to a Supreme Court that had been irreparably shaped by one election where so many who had voted for Obama stayed at home in crucial districts rather than go out and vote. (It was a vote along ideological lines that ruled against blocking Williams's execution. All three liberal justices said they were in favor of blocking it.)