If one more sing-song rapper makes one more song about being famous, I may have to cut my ears off. I expect rappers to boast about the luxuries that come with fame. But when an artist’s catalog contains multiple songs dedicated to explaining just how famous he or she is, and when mind-blowing beats are […]
Common ditches the electro-robotic sound on his last album, Universal Mind Control, and returns to the raw street vibe of his earlier works. This sick beat is produced by none-other than No I.D., who also produced many songs one of my favorite Common albums, One Day It’ll All Make Sense. His upcoming album produced by […]
Remember those days you were in your old neighborhood playing in the streets during the summer. Knowing you couldn’t keep running in and out of the house, children running the block had to make due with the change they found throughout the day. In the hoods across America, people hit the bodega to see what […]
Warner Brothers Records co-president/CEO Todd Moscowitz announced Friday that Common has signed with Warner Brothers Records. Common was once on Kanye West’s G.O.O.D music which just signed a deal with Def Jam. Common tweeted: “I’m very grateful to be a part of this family, to be a part of this team,” Common told crowd in […]
Yup! Everyone on VH1’s Single Ladies is not single. In the scene below April is caught off guard by the Mayor, played by Common, who she is having an affair with. The Mayor doesn’t want to share April anymore and tells her to stop sleeping with her husband. The thing is, the Mayor is also married […]
Last night on The O’Reilly Factor, Jon Stewart took Bill O’Reilly to task about his objections towards rapper Common’s visit to the White House. Stewart tells O’Reilly that even Bono wrote a song about Leonard Peltier and that Bob Dylan wrote a song about Rubin “Hurricane” Carter who was also convicted of murder. Both artists […]
Did you really think that Barack was going to keep one of Chicago’s finest out of the building? Contrary to reports that conservative pressure caused the White House to revoke Common’s invitation to celebrate poetry, Lonnie Rashid Lynn, Jr. took the stage to perform at the White House’s Celebration of American Poetry. Spotted @ RapRadar […]
Michelle Obama invited Common to a poetry event. The invitation has proven to be cause for alarm by some members of the poltical right who protest Common's alleged "cop killer" lyrics.
Common is expanding his film resumé with the upcoming independent film L.U.V. Common will not only star in the film, but he will produce it as well.
Back in the day, if you were an aspiring rapper and wanted to get a deal, there was no internet to post your entire discography of songs recorded on your laptop to. You had to have a demo tape.
Bilal‘s 2006 album, Love For Sale, may have never been released, but Bilal went back to it to film a video for “Sorrow, Tears & Blood,” a cover of Fela Kuti‘s song, featuring Common.
In honor of what would have been producer/MC J Dilla’s 37th birthday, Gifted Team Films, Okay Player, and Brian “B. Kyle” Atkins have released the documentary Still Shining which tells the story of his life through interviews with his family, friends, and artists he worked with. Dilla died on February 10th, 2006, just days after […]
