No you are not back in 1994. Common released the music video to “Ghetto Dreams” featuring Nas. I am so glad Common is back to creating real hip hop and not that robotic music he put out on his last album. The Dreamer, The Believer drops this fall on Warner Bros. Records. Check out the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 &…
Cee Lo Green‘s “Bodies” is one of our favorite tracks from Green’s latest album, The Lady Killer. The dramatic slow jam gets an animated video directed by Mikael Colombu and features “appearances” from Kerry Washington, Janelle Monae, Raphael Saadiq, Common, Bilal, and fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld.
Common and Serena maybe have broken up but that can’t keep the two apart!
Hip hop producers are known for digging deep in the crates for the records they use to create the songs we all know and love. No genre is immune from being sampled!
From ThinkCommon.com In anticipation of his new movie Just Wright, Common has been putting out mixtapes of music inspired by the movie. In this latest installment he culls the soul of Patrice Rushen, Roy Ayers Music Project and many more.
Just Wright stars Common and Queen Latifah headed out for the NYC premiere of the film last night.
Queen Latifah and Common hit the red carpet at the premiere of Just Wright along with tons of other celebs!
