
(??/??/1996) (Common meets Kanye for the first time) (05/24/2005) (Be officialy releases)
Single by Common released on March 1st, 2005. Also track 2 from Common's 2005 album Be. Mixed by Jared Robbins & Manny Marroquin. Engineered by Taylor Dow. Samples the song "You Make The Sunshine" by The Temprees.
Track 1 from Common's 2005 album Be. Features acoustic bass from Derrick Hodge. Features keyboards from James Poyser. Mixed by Andrew Dawson. Engineered by Francis Forde & Taylor Dow. Samples the song "Mother Nature" by Albert Jones.
Track 3 from Common's 2005 album Be. Also released as a single on June 21st, 2005. Features percussion from Num Amuntehu. Mixed by Jared Robbins & Manny Marroquin. Engineered by Francis Forde, Ric McRae & Taylor Dow. Interpolates the song "Shimmy Shimmy Ya" by Ol' Dirty Bastard.
Track 4 from Common's 2005 album Be. Also released as a single on October 8th, 2005. Features keyboards from James Poyser. Mixed by Jared Robbins & Manny Marroquin. Engineered by Francis Forde & Taylor Dow.
Track 5 from Common's 2005 album Be. Also released as a single in 2005. Mixed by Jared Robbins & Manny Marroquin. Engineered by Ric McRae & Taylor Dow. Samples the song "Innocent 'Til Proven Guilty" by Honey Cone.
Track 7 from Common's 2005 album Be. Mixed by Jared Robbins & Manny Marroquin. Engineered by Steve Tolle, Jason Agel, Taylor Dow & Jared Zastrow.
Track 8 from Common's 2005 album Be. Mixed by Jared Robbins, Steve Tolle &rew Dawson & Manny Marroquin. Engineered by Charles Hunt. Samples "Guerilla Monsoon Rap" by Talib Kweli, also produced by Kanye West.
Previously a Vinyl exclusive, but was officially uploaded to DSPS when the 20th Anniversary version of "Be" came out.
Track 9 from Common's 2005 album Be. Mixed by Jared Robbins & Manny Marroquin. Engineered by Ric McRae, Taylor Dow & Anthony Kilhoffer.
Track 10 from Common's 2005 album Be. Mixed by Jared Robbins & Manny Marroquin. Engineered by Ric McRae & Taylor Dow.
Track 11 from Common's 2005 album Be. Features keyboards from Kanye West & James Poyser. Features strings from James Poyser. Features percussion & drums from Karriem Riggins. Mixed by Frank Hendler & Bob Power. Engineered by Taylor Dow & Dilla.
Released as a single on June 14th, 2005. Also Track 12 on Be (20th Anniversary). Also track 8 from disc 2 of Scarface's 2006 album My Homies Part 2. Samples the song "You Make The Sunshine" by The Temprees.
Released as a single on June 14th, 2005, with the Scarface and Mos Def Remix. Also Track 13 on Be (20th Anniversary). Features The Last Poets doing some extra spoken word vocals, with the rest of it just having the instrumental play, features no Common or Ye Vocals.
Presumably orignally released sometime in 2005, released onto streaming for Be (20th Anniversary). Features some new production from Jazzanova, and new vocals from Joy Denalane, who does Kanye's parts.