HHJ Flashback: Common - I Used to Love H.E.R. (Video)

Music video by Common performing I Used To Love H.E.R. Off the album Resurrection. Regarded as one of the greatest hip hop songs, the track ignited a beef with The West Coast Connection of WC, Ice Cube and Mack 10. It specifically refers to the fall of conscious and Afrocentric rap; as well as the rising popularity of West Coast hip hop and G-funk. In the song, Common makes an analogy comparing the degradation of a woman with the deterioration of hip hop music after its commercial success forced it into the mainstream.