Like Water for Chocolate (thing)

Like Water for Chocolate is also the name of the latest album by rapper Common. In The Breaks Issue 3, Common had this to say to interviewer Combustible the Poet:

"Actually the album is named after a movie of the same title. In the movie the main character was a really good cook. She would always be cooking for people. Whenever she would cook, she would really put a lot of emotion into it. So when people would eat her cooking, they were able to feel the same emotions she felt while cooking it. You feel me? So this is the same thing. I put all my heart, my mind and my rawness into these tracks. So I hope that people can feel that when they listen to the album.”

Now whether his reason for naming his album this way are founded or not (I don’t know, I’ve never read the book), he has good intentions. This album is Common’s most mainstream to date, perhaps because it was released on MCA, not Relativity as his past work had been.

1. Time Travelin’ (A Tribute to Fela)
2. Heat
3. Cold Blooded
4. Dooinit
5. The Light
6. Funky For You
7. The Questions
8. Time Travelin’ Reprise
9. The 6th Sense
10. A Film Called (Pimp)
11. Nag Champa (Afrodesiac For The World)
12. Thelonius
13. Payback Is A Grandmother
14. Ghetto Heaven Part Two
15. A Song For Assata
16. Pops Rap III...All My Children

Executive Producer: Ahmir “?uestlove” Thompson
Co-Executive Producers: Common & Derek D.