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.

Critical reception

Reviewing for The Village Voice in January 1998, Robert Christgau wrote of the album:

Track listing

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

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