Common’s book “One Day It Will All Make Sense” shares the name of his 1997 album, and will be released on September 13th. The memoir includes insight into his relationships with women. Erykah Badu, Taraji P. Henson, Serena Williams and the mother of his daughter are included, but another woman gets even more attention. Dr. […]
Common’s new book “One Day It’ll All Make Sense” releases this month. He gives us a closer look into his life in the memoir. Common reveals being kidnapped at gunpoint by his father at only 8 months old. His father also kidnapped his mother. In the prologue Common gives details about his father’s abusive ways […]
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 […]
You know how the saying goes, “Black don’t crack,” well although I’m black I can’t even front, I know sometimes this is a bald head lie, plain and simple. There are many African American’s that just don’t age well. Period. BUT, as a whole I have to say my beautiful people of color age pretty […]
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 […]
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 told O’Reilly that even Bono wrote a song about Native American activist Leonard Peltier and that Bob Dylan wrote a song about Rubin “Hurricane” Carter (portrayed by Denzel Washington 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 […]
Now that President Obama has released his birth certificate, and captured and killed Osama Bin Laden, the right wingers in the United States need something to complain about. They’ve fallen back on an old standby from the 80s and 90s – hip-hop.
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, Atlanta’s own Janelle Monae, Raphael Saadiq, Common, Bilal, and fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld. The video follows Cee Lo’s “Lady Killer” […]
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 […]
