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{{Infobox album
| name         = One Day It'll All Make Sense
| type         = [[Album]]
| artist       = [[Common (rapper)|Common]]
| cover        = One Day It'll All Make Sense.png
| alt          = 
| released     = September 30, 1997
| recorded     = 1995–1997
| venue        = 
| studio       = 
| genre        = [[Hip hop music|Hip hop]]
| length       = 70:10
| label        = [[Relativity Records|Relativity]]
| producer     = {{hlist|[[No I.D.]]|Spike Rebel|[[Karriem Riggins]]|[[James Poyser]]|[[the Twilite Tone]]|Dug Infinite}}
| prev_title   = [[Resurrection (Common album)|Resurrection]]
| prev_year    = 1994
| next_title   = [[Like Water for Chocolate (album)|Like Water for Chocolate]]
| next_year    = 2000
| misc         = {{Singles
 | name        = One Day It'll All Make Sense
 | type        = studio
 | single1     = [[Retrospect for Life]]
 | single1date = July 29, 1997
 | single2     = [[Reminding Me (Of Sef)]]
 | single2date = August 5, 1997
 | single3     = [[All Night Long (Common song)|All Night Long]]
 | single3date = January 25, 1998
}}
}}

'''''One Day It'll All Make Sense''''' is the third [[studio album]] by [[rapping|rapper]] [[Common (rapper)|Common]], released on September 30, 1997, on [[Relativity Records]]. It was the follow-up to his critically acclaimed album ''[[Resurrection (Common 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 ==
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite web|last=Stanley|first=Leo|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/one-day-itll-all-make-sense-mw0000600116|title=One Day It'll All Make Sense – Common|publisher=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=March 30, 2020}}</ref>
| rev2 = ''[[The Austin Chronicle]]''
| rev2Score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}<ref>{{cite web|last=Gray|first=Christopher|url=https://www.austinchronicle.com/music/1997-10-24/518646/|title=Common: One Day It'll All Make Sense (Relativity)|work=[[The Austin Chronicle]]|date=October 24, 1997|access-date=March 30, 2020}}</ref>
| rev3 = ''[[Chicago Tribune]]''
| rev3Score = {{Rating|3.5|4}}<ref>{{cite web|last=Kot|first=Greg|author-link=Greg Kot|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1997-10-10-9710100407-story.html|title=Common: One Day It'll All Make Sense (Relativity)|work=[[Chicago Tribune]]|date=October 10, 1997|access-date=March 30, 2020}}</ref>
| rev4 = ''[[The Independent]]''
| rev4Score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/pop-album-reviews-1236626.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220524/http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/pop-album-reviews-1236626.html |archive-date=2022-05-24 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Pop: Album reviews|work=[[The Independent]]|date=October 18, 1997|access-date=March 30, 2020}}</ref>
| rev5 = ''[[NME]]''
| rev5Score = 8/10<ref>{{cite web|last=Fadele|first=Dele|author-link=Dele Fadele|url=https://www.nme.com/reviews/reviews/19980101000218reviews.html|title=Common – One Day It'll All Make Sense|work=[[NME]]|date=October 25, 1997|access-date=March 30, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000817214944/http://www.nme.com/reviews/reviews/19980101000218reviews.html|archive-date=August 17, 2000|url-status=dead}}</ref>
| rev6 = ''[[Rolling Stone]]''
| rev6Score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Powell|first=Kevin|author-link=Kevin Powell|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/one-day-itll-all-make-sense-93769/|title=One Day It'll All Make Sense|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|date=January 22, 1998|access-date=March 30, 2020}}</ref>
| rev7 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]''
| rev7Score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}<ref>{{cite book|chapter=Common|last=McLeod|first=Kembrew|author-link=Kembrew McLeod|title=The New Rolling Stone Album Guide|title-link=The Rolling Stone Album Guide|editor1-last=Brackett|editor1-first=Nathan|editor2-last=Hoard|editor2-first=Christian|publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]]|edition=4th|year=2004|page=[https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/187 187]|isbn=0-7432-0169-8}}</ref>
| rev8 = ''[[The Source (magazine)|The Source]]''
| rev8Score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Patel|first=Joseph "Jazzbo"|author-link=Joseph Patel|title=Common: One Day It'll All Make Sense|department=Record Report|url=http://thesource.tunes.com/sections/reports/text/report.asp?from=&artist=2699&album=15670|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000123074508/http://thesource.tunes.com/sections/reports/text/report.asp?from=&artist=2699&album=15670|archive-date=January 23, 2000|magazine=[[The Source (magazine)|The Source]]|issue=98|date=November 1997|page=160|access-date=July 19, 2024}}</ref>
| rev9 = ''[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]''
| rev9Score = 8/10<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Coker|first=Cheo Hodari|author-link=Cheo Hodari Coker|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZsS_O9LQNKAC&pg=PA156|title=Common: One Day It'll All Make Sense|magazine=[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]|volume=13|issue=9|date=December 1997|access-date=March 30, 2020|page=156}}</ref>
| rev10 = ''[[The Village Voice]]''
| rev10Score = B+<ref name="CG">{{cite web|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cgv198-98.php|title=Consumer Guide|work=[[The Village Voice]]|date=January 27, 1998|access-date=March 30, 2020}}</ref>
}}
Reviewing for ''[[The Village Voice]]'' in January 1998, [[Robert Christgau]] wrote of the album:

{{blockquote|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.<ref name="CG"/>}}

== Track listing ==
<!--this section is for album credits only-->
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!align="center"|#
!align="center"|Title
!align="center"|Length
!align="center" width="100"|Performer(s)
!align="center" width="100"|Songwriters
!align="center" width="100"|Producer(s)
|-
|1
|"Introspective"
|1:36
|Common
|[[Common (rapper)|Lonnie Lynn]] <br /> [[No I.D.|Ernest Wilson]]
|[[No I.D.]]
|-
|2
|"Invocation"
|2:14
|Common
|Lonnie Lynn <br /> Ernest Wilson
|No I.D.
|-
|3
|"Real Nigga Quotes"
|5:24
|Common
|Lonnie Lynn <br /> Doug Thomas
|Dug Infinite
|-
|4
|"[[Retrospect for Life]]"
|6:23
|Common <br /> [[Lauryn Hill]] <br /> Vere Isaacs <small>([[bass guitar|bass]])</small>
|Lonnie Lynn <br /> James Poyser <br /> Ernest Wilson <br /> Stevie Wonder <br /> [[Syreeta Wright]]
|[[James Poyser]] <br /> No I.D.
|-
|5
|"Gettin' Down at the Amphitheater"
|5:18
|Common <br /> [[De La Soul]] ([[Kelvin Mercer|Posdnuos]] and [[David Jude Jolicoeur|Trugoy]])
|Lonnie Lynn <br /> David Jolicoeur <br /> Kelvin Mercer <br /> Ernest Wilson
|No I.D.
|-
|6
|"Food for Funk"
|4:10
|Common
|Lonnie Lynn <br /> Ernest Wilson
|No I.D.
|-
|7
|"G.O.D. (Gaining One's Definition)"
|4:47
|[[Cee-Lo Green|Cee-Lo]] <br /> Common
|Lonnie Lynn <br /> Ernest Wilson <br /> Cornell Newhill <br /> Thomas Burton
|No I.D. <br /> Spike Rebel
|-
|8
|"My City"
|5:07
|Common <br /> Malik Yusef <br /> Alvin Rogers <small>([[saxophone]])</small> <br /> Demetrions Kelly <small>(bass)</small>
|Malik Yusef <br /> Cornell Newhill
|Spike Rebel
|-
|9
|"Hungry"
|2:33
|Common
|Lonnie Lynn <br /> Ernest Wilson
|No I.D.
|-
|10
|"[[All Night Long (Common song)|All Night Long]]"
|7:35
|Common <br /> [[Erykah Badu]]
|Lonnie Lynn <br /> James Poyser <br /> Erykah Badu <br /> [[?uestlove|Ahmir Thompson]]
|[[The Roots]]
|-
|11
|"Stolen Moments, Pt. 1"
|2:02
|Common
|Lonnie Lynn <br /> Ernest Wilson
|No I.D.
|-
|12
|"Stolen Moments, Pt. 2"
|2:57
|[[Black Thought]] <br /> Common
|Lonnie Lynn <br /> Ernest Wilson
|No I.D.
|-
|13
|"1'2 Many..."
|3:12
|Common
|Lonnie Lynn <br /> Doug Thomas
|Dug Infinite
|-
|14
|"Stolen Moments, Pt. 3"
|3:13
|Common <br /> [[Q-Tip (rapper)|Q-Tip]]
|Lonnie Lynn <br /> Ernest Wilson
|No I.D.
|-
|15
|"Making a Name for Ourselves"
|4:53
|[[Canibus]] <br /> Common
|Lonnie Lynn <br /> Germaine Williams
|No I.D.
|-
|16
|"[[Reminding Me (Of Sef)]]"
|4:55
|[[Chantay Savage]] <br /> Common <br /> Spike Rebel <small>([[Keyboard instrument|keyboards]])</small>
|Lonnie Lynn <br /> [[The Twilite Tone|Anthony Craig]]
|[[The Twilite Tone]]
|-
|17
|"Pop's Rap, Pt. 2 / Fatherhood"
|3:49
|Common <br /> [[Lonnie "Pops" Lynn]] <br /> Alan Jay Palmer <small>([[piano]])</small> <br /> Billy Johnson <small>(bass)</small> <br /> Karriem Riggins <small>([[Drum kit|drums]])</small>
|Lonnie Lynn <br /> Karriem Riggins
|[[Karriem Riggins]]
|}

== Charts ==
{| class="wikitable"
|rowspan="2"| '''Year'''
|rowspan="2"| '''Album'''
|colspan="2"| '''Chart positions'''
|-
| [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]]
| [[Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums]]
|-
| 1997
| ''One Day It'll All Make Sense''
|  style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"| 62
|  style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"| 12
|}

=== Singles ===
{| class="wikitable"
|rowspan="2"| '''Year'''
|rowspan="2"| '''Song'''
|colspan="4"| '''Chart positions'''
|-
| [[Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks]]
| [[Hot Rap Tracks|Hot Rap Singles]]
| [[Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales]]
|-
| 1997
| "[[Reminding Me (Of Sef)]]"
|  style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"| 57
|  style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"| 9
|  style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"| 21
|}

== References ==
<references />

== External links ==
* {{Discogs master|32379}}

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[[Category:1997 albums]]
[[Category:Albums produced by James Poyser]]
[[Category:Albums produced by Karriem Riggins]]
[[Category:Albums produced by No I.D.]]
[[Category:Common (rapper) albums]]
[[Category:Relativity Records albums]]


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