“The Light,” Like Water for Chocolate, Common (2000)
Another love song from Common that makes the list is “The Light,” a song reportedly inspired by singer Erykah Badu. The song is celebrated because it had heart and was a clear example of Hip-Hop eloquence— border-lining on poetry.
“I never call you my bitch or even my boo
There’s so much in a name and so much more in you
Few understand the union of woman and man
And sex and a tingle is where they assume that it land
But that’s fly by night, for you in the sky I write
For in these cold Chi night’s moon, you my light
If Heaven had a height, you would be that tall
Ghetto to coffee shop, through you I see that all”