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.

One Day It'll All Make Sense
Studio album by Common
Released	September 30, 1997
Genre	Hip hop
Length	70:10
Label	Relativity
Producer	Derek Dudley (exec.) Common (exec.) No I.D. Spike Rebel Karriem Riggins James Poyser The Twilite Tone Dug Infinite
Common chronology
Resurrection (1994) One Day It'll All Make Sense (1997) Like Water for Chocolate (2000)
Singles from One Day It'll All Make Sense
"Retrospect for Life" Released: July 29, 1997 "Reminding Me (Of Sef)" Released: August 5, 1997 "All Night Long" Released: January 25, 1998

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
The Austin Chronicle	[2]
Chicago Tribune	[3]
The Independent	[4]
NME	8/10[5]
Rolling Stone	[6]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[7]
The Source	3.5/5[8]
Spin	8/10[9]
The Village Voice	B+[10]

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

With no notable penchant for ear candy or mass ass appeal, this Chicago rhymer carves out an unpretentious artistic space that couldn't have existed before hip hop – no singer-songwriter's everyday ruminations come near such social content or physical form. Common raps about black life as most black people live it and black manhood as most young black men grow into it, and while his flow isn't primed for the dance floor, it's complex and full-bodied in a way few, you know, white artists could imitate, much less make up. Nor is that the only way he's complex--guy spends considerable time dancing in his head.[10]

Track listing

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

Charts

Year	Album	Chart positions
		Billboard 200	Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums
1997	One Day It'll All Make Sense	62	12

Singles

Year	Song	Chart positions
		Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks	Hot Rap Singles	Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales
1997	"Reminding Me (Of Sef)"	57	9	21

References

1. Stanley, Leo. "One Day It'll All Make Sense – Common". AllMusic. Retrieved March 30, 2020.
2. Gray, Christopher (October 24, 1997). "Common: One Day It'll All Make Sense (Relativity)". The Austin Chronicle. Retrieved March 30, 2020.
3. Kot, Greg (October 10, 1997). "Common: One Day It'll All Make Sense (Relativity)". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved March 30, 2020.
4. "Pop: Album reviews". The Independent. October 18, 1997. Retrieved March 30, 2020.
5. Fadele, Dele (October 25, 1997). "Common – One Day It'll All Make Sense". NME. Archived from the original on August 17, 2000. Retrieved March 30, 2020.
6. Powell, Kevin (January 22, 1998). "One Day It'll All Make Sense". Rolling Stone. Retrieved March 30, 2020.
7. McLeod, Kembrew (2004). "Common". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. p. 187. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
8. "Common: One Day It'll All Make Sense". The Source. No. 98. November 1997. p. 160.
9. Coker, Cheo Hodari (December 1997). "Common: One Day It'll All Make Sense". Spin. Vol. 13 no. 9. p. 156. Retrieved March 30, 2020.
10. Christgau, Robert (January 27, 1998). "Consumer Guide". The Village Voice. Retrieved March 30, 2020.

External links

• One Day It'll All Make Sense at Discogs (list of releases)