The Making of Common's "Resurrection"
By Insanul Ahmed, Andrew Barber, Keenan Higgins | Oct 29, 2011 | 1:07 pm | Permalink
“Orange Pineapple Juice”
Produced by: No I.D.
Common:“That’s a lot of people’s favorite song. That was one of the earlier songs we recorded. I would go in sometimes and just be free with it. That was one of them raps where it was just fun, taking it different places, using your voice for different things, and using all this personality.
I was really just being open and using what we would call flavor. It was like using your voice with different tones to just give it that juice. - Common
“What you heard in that song was some of the personality that I picked up from my friends and picked up from who I am—having fun with it and really just being open and using what we would call flavor. It was like using your voice with different tones to just give it that juice.
“I only called that ‘Orange Pineapple Juice’ because I used to always drink orange pineapple juice at the time. I used to like those type of abstract titles. I would like to hear it because there were certain ad-libs and stuff that I did that on there. When you’re recording, different things just come out. That was truly your raw form and not thinking too much. [You were] just having fun with the rap.”
No I.D.: “When he was doing his raps I said ‘Alright, we did ‘Watermelon,’ now let’s do ‘Orange Pineapple Juice.’ It was all about flavor. You know, flavor used to be a word we used in hip-hop like ‘That has flavor, he got flavor, whatever.’
Roselyn mamo October 29th, 2011 at 06:00 PM
It is truly amazing how far people come from. And its true when they say that when you do something from the heart, it finds hearts. Common has kept hiphop n real music on. Pure devotion in what he does n i think the far he has come is nothing compared to where he is going. He is my favourite artist worldwide n i pray that God may continue blessing him as he touches hearts with his gift..
Amp Geez a.k.a Smoke Greene October 31st, 2011 at 01:57 AM
This Twilite Tone cat is a bit of a douche bag.
SD November 6th, 2011 at 12:29 AM
What do you know? What do you do? Where have you been? You don't know Ynot or Tone so chill and try a little hard to not be a douche bag, you douche Bag!!! Since we in the art of judging people we dont know. Try that on for size.
beantownflow October 31st, 2011 at 08:34 PM
It sounds like he's bitter about not being more involved with album. I seems that he still has that same ego problem 17 yrs later.
mobbdeen November 2nd, 2011 at 09:17 PM
No I.D. should drop the occasional verse. His verses on this album (and his solo) were great. Give the people what they want...
DeToddi November 30th, 2011 at 06:38 PM
Incredible article! Tone did come off sounding kinda bitter...still, his contributions to the album were important. Nuff respect to Com & No I.D. South Side all day!
J January 10th, 2012 at 02:43 AM
No mention of Mista Sinista? He provided the scratches on 10 of the tracks in that album. Can you imagine the track "Resurrection" without the opening cuts?
J January 10th, 2012 at 02:46 AM
oops nevermind.
Just Muz February 11th, 2012 at 12:53 PM
Ynot was great in his contributions to the album, that being said.. his contributions to the interview left a less than favourable impression. This was Common's album - he is not arrogant about it, Ynot comes across as boastful about what he did, and bitter about what he didn't do.
JAM February 13th, 2012 at 09:02 PM
I was 3 when this album dropped. I'm glad I got enough "common sense" to still have it copped.