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I Used to Love H.E.R.

CTL-W-0137 · Work

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Combined Graph record U-00449 · provenance: canonical master store (CSV), record CTL-W-0137. Master record source: CTL seed 2026-10-16 — UNVERIFIED, verify before public citation.

Artist: Common (the fetched article notes he was 'still called Common Sense' at the time; grammy.com's Common bio, also fetched, confirms he went by Common Sense until 1995 — same person as the stored artist credit). Title: 'I Used to Love H.E.R.', track 2 of the album Resurrection. Year/label: Resurrection was 'originally released in 1994'; the original LP is catalogued in the fetched article as Relativity 88561-1208-1, 1994 — matches stored year 1994.

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Artist: Common (the fetched article notes he was 'still called Common Sense' at the time; grammy.com's Common bio, also fetched, confirms he went by Common Sense until 1995 — same person as the stored artist credit). Title: 'I Used to Love H.E.R.', track 2 of the album Resurrection. Year/label: Resurrection was 'originally released in 1994'; the original LP is catalogued in the fetched article as Relativity 88561-1208-1, 1994 — matches stored year 1994.

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Artist: Common (the fetched article notes he was 'still called Common Sense' at the time; grammy.com's Common bio, also fetched, confirms he went by Common Sense until 1995 — same person as the stored artist credit). Title: 'I Used to Love H.E.R.', track 2 of the album Resurrection. Year/label: Resurrection was 'originally released in 1994'; the original LP is catalogued in the fetched article as Relativity 88561-1208-1, 1994 — matches stored year 1994.

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