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Relativity, MCA, G.March 13, 1972), better known by his stage name Common, is an American hip hop artist.Common debuted in 1992 with the album Can I Borrow A Dollar?His first major label album, Like Water for Chocolate, received widespread critical acclaim and moderate commercial success.Its popularity was matched by 2005's Be, which was nominated in the 2006 Grammy Awards for Best Rap Album.Common recently started a burgeoning film career, starting with a role in action thriller, Smokin' Aces, followed by a part in American Gangster.One Day It'll All Make Sense
1.Early life
Common was born on March 13, 1972, and he was raised in Chicago, he is the son of educator Ann Hines and former ABA basketball player turned youth counselor Lonnie Lynn.Common's parents divorced when he was six years old, resulting in his father moving to Denver, Colorado.This left Common to be raised by his mother, but his father remained active in his life and even landed Common a job with the Chicago Bulls during his teen years.While in high school, Common also formed C.Early career
Common dropped out of Louisiana State University (as quoted in the song "Its Your World pt.Unsigned Hype column of The Source magazine after a friend sent in a tape of Common rapping.Under the stage name Common Sense, he debuted in 1992 with the single "Take It EZ" followed by the album, Can I Borrow a Dollar?.With the 1994 release of Resurrection, Common achieved a much larger degree of critical acclaim, which extended beyond Chicago natives.Feud with Ice Cube
The song "I Used to Love H.Ice Cube first responded with the 1991 song True to the Game, with the lyrics "Used to love H.West Coast hip hop rivalry).Common and Ice Cube continued to insult each other back and forth before finally meeting with Louis Farrakhan and setting aside their dispute.One Day It'll All Make Sense
Initially scheduled for an October 1996 release, Common finally released his third album, One Day It'll All Make Sense, in September 1997.Tip, Canibus, Black Thought, Chantay Savage, and ?In addition to releasing One Day, Common's first child, daughter Omoye Assata Lynn, was born shortly after the release of the album.As documented by Hip hop journalist, Raquel Cepeda, in the liner notes for the album, this event had a profound spiritual and mental effect on Common and enabled him to grow musically while becoming more responsible as an artist.Stunned and confused, Rashid had life altering decisions to make with his girlfriend, Kim Jones.Lauryn Hill (who was due on the same day as Rashid's girlfriend), is the song that is the driving force behind the project.Common addresses family ethics several times on One Day...Corinthians 12:12, which summarizes the path to manhood:
When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child.Common signed a major label record deal with MCA Records and relocated from Chicago to New York City in 1999.He began recording almost exclusively with a loose collective of musicians and artists (dubbed the "Soulquarians" by central figure ?The Roots' Things Fall Apart, and the Rawkus Records compilation, Soundbombing 2.In 2000, his fourth album, Like Water for Chocolate, was released to mass critical acclaim."The 6th Sense"), Like Water for Chocolate transpired to be a considerable commercial breakthrough for Common, earning the rapper his first gold record, and greatly expanding his fanbase among critics and listeners alike.This album saw Common exploring themes (musically and lyrically), which were uncommon for a Hip hop record, as he does on the song "Time Travelin' (A Tribute To Fela)"; a homage to Nigerian music legend, and political activist Fela Kuti.The most popular single from the album, "The Light", was nominated for a Grammy Award.Around this time, Common began dating fellow Soulquarian Erykah Badu.It received polarizing reviews, with many critics praising it as a musical tour de force and a visionary expansion of the Hip hop template, while others criticized it for veering too far from accessibility and viewing Common's role as secondary to the musicianship of the Soulquarians (it should be noted that Common has himself stated that it was his intention at the time to make an atypical Hip hop record).Despite this, or perhaps because of it, the album did not sell as well as Like Water For Chocolate, with many longtime fans being turned off by its eclectic sound, and the album suffering from a lack of promotion due to MCA's absorption under Geffen Records.Music Era
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"Go!"MC battle, where West took jabs at his lyrical idol for "going soft" and wearing crochet pants (as he does for his appearance in the video for the Mary J.Blige song "Dance for Me").The album was released in May 2005, and performed very well, boosted by Kanye's involvement and the singles "The Corner", and "Go".Be earned Common the second gold record of his career, with sales topping out at around 800,000.The Source magazine gave it a near perfect 4.The album was also nominated for four Grammy Awards in 2006.Common's seventh and most recent, LP is titled Finding Forever.Devo Springsteen and Karriem Riggins, as well as the only J.On July 31, 2007, Common performed a free concert in Santa Monica, California on the 3rd Street Promenade to promote the release of Finding Forever.Tip of the group A Tribe Called Quest stated that he and Common were forming a group called The Standard.He says the group will head into the studio in a few weeks to record an album.Tip himself will handle the majority of the production on the album but it will also feature some productions by Kanye West.Common to write the song "A Song For Assata" from his album Like Water for Chocolate).Common has found himself in many dating rumors aside from Samantha Wildman he's also been linked to Serena Williams and actress Taraji P.Common played the roll of Alicia Keys boyfriend in the music video "Like You'll Never See Me Again".With both artists hailing from the Great Lakes region of the United States (Chicago and Detroit, respectively), Common and J Dilla established their chemistry early on.Both became members of the Soulquarians collective, and collaborated on numerous projects together, even placing one song, "Thelonius", on both the Slum Village album Fantastic, Vol.Common's Like Water for Chocolate.As Dilla's health began to decline from the effects of Lupus Nephritis, he relocated to Los Angeles for treatment, and asked Common to make the move with him as a roommate.Dilla would lose his battle with the rare disease, but his asking of Common to move in with him during his darkest hour is testament of a friendship between the two that transcended rap music, or the music industry.As a result, Common is a friend of the Yancey Family, particularly with J Dilla's mother, Maureen Yancey.Advertising
In 2006, Common was a model for photos of The Gap's fall season collection, appearing on posters in stores.In February 2007, Common signed a deal with New Era to promote their new line of Layers fitted caps.Common also stars in a television commercial for the 2008 Lincoln Navigator.Activism
Common is a supporter of animal rights and PETA.Common's comments about interracial relationships on the song "Real People", and in an interview.Seeing a personal insult in the remarks, Yungun, Doc Brown (rapper) and Rising Son recorded a track over an instrumental version of "The Corner" named "Dear Common (The Corner Dub)".Common states that he has heard of the track but never actually taken the time to listen to it, and has not retaliated in song.Common was accused of making bigoted statements during a concert at Emory University in 2006, when he rapped about his certainty that "damn niggers from Duke lacrosse" had raped a "black princess," a reference to Crystal Gail Mangum, who had accused three white Duke University lacrosse players of rape.Despite his comments about the Duke Lacrosse Case, Duke University invited him to play at their last day of classes on 25 April 2007.Acting career
In 2003, Common appeared on the popular American UPN sitcom Girlfriends.In the episode "Take This Poem and Call Me In The Morning", he appeared as Omar, a slam poet who competes with fellow poet Sivad (played by Saul Williams) for the affection of Lynn Searcy (played by Persia White).He also had a cameo appearance on an episode of UPN's One on One, where he played a drama class instructor named Darius.He also made an appearance on the NBC show "Scrubs".In 2007, Common appeared alongside Ben Affleck, Jeremy Piven, and Alicia Keys in the crime film Smokin' Aces.He appeared alongside Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, The RZA and T.Hop Video ("Geto Heaven Remix T."Common Hoping To Get Kanye To Work On His New Album Tentatively Titled 'Finding Forever'".Artist Common Says, 'Think Before you eat'"."Common Encourages HIV Testing"."Common Gets Thugged Out, Ghost Writing For Diddy Too".Synthesis Magazine and Synthesis Network
Common proves he can 'Be' with help of Kanye West
Interview with Common at Prefix
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Wiktionary, the free dictionary.See Copyrights for details."Are you sure you want to block this user?"OFFICIAL COMMON MYSPACE PAGE!"POSTAL CODE:GENDER: Male FemaleAll fields are required."Are you sure you want to delete this comment?"GOT THAT FIRE FOR YOUR EARDRUMSLEND AN MC YOUR EAR HOMIES.!!!!!!!VERSENEW YEAR, NEW OUTLOOK, NEW MUSIC...Please check out my new tracks and leave me a comment.You will not be disappointed with my music, I promise.Remember, Music Is Life!Common respect form Russia.Here are lot of your fans).CLASSIC HIPHOP IS THE FRESHEST!PEACE FROM THE DOPEST CLOTHING LINE OF THE DECADE!!!Wishing you a happy New Year!AM GONNA BLOW UP SOMETIME SOON.LOUIS STREETZ: Underground RailRoad Vol.Common thanks so much for the add..PROMISE you WONT regret it!!!Stop by my page and check out new tracks by your girl Pecan Sky.....HEY HANDSOMENESS,JUST STOPPING BY TO SHOW YOUR PAGE SOME LUV,I HOPE ALL IS WELL,STAY BLESSED...............Keep up the Great MUSIC my DUDE...West so Let me BATTLE you like you and K west did on the that song southside.UNSIGNED BUT STILL DOIN IT BIG**B.AND I WANT EVERYONE TO COME TO MY PAGE AND CHECK OUT MY MUSIC AND VIDEOS.SCREEN YOU CAN ALSO GET AT ME WWW.AND I WANT EVERYONE TO COME TO MY PAGE AND CHECK OUT MY MUSIC AND VIDEOS.HELP YA GIRL GET UP ON YA T.Everyone come check out the hot new songs by the elite young lyricist Juan Haney!!!!!!!!!!The Future of Hip Hop!!!!!!The Future of Hip Hop!!!!!!The Future of Hip Hop!!!!!!The Future of Hip Hop!!!!!!The Future of Hip Hop!!!!!!The Future of Hip Hop!!!!!!Everyone come check out the hot new songs by the elite young lyricist Juan Haney!!!!!!!!!!IF U CAN LEAVE A COMMENT BY THE SONG OR SONGS U LIKE THE BEST!!!NEVER BE A STRANGER AND HOPE U HAVE A GREAT NEW YEAR MOTION PICTURE AKA JREAM FROM THE DOC GENERALS!!!Check Out Yo Boy TimBuckTu (Talk OF Chicago).CHECK MY MUSIC AND LET ME KNOW THE BEST TRACK FOR U !COMMON KEEP MAKIN GOOD MUSIC HOMIE!!RMX OF ALICIA KEYS TRAK !!We are having our weekly conference tonight and i would like for you to join us."Urgent Security Alert","Warning: You are submitting information to an outside site.This could be an attempt to steal your username and password.Do you wish to continue your form submission?"Series and System i5) users in North America.Workplace and many other technical topics.COMMON Career Center is the online job board that targets the System i market.COMMON HQ has moved: As of December 15, COMMON HQ has a new address: COMMON, 5515 N.Society debuts: Sign up for the popular online System i community now!Trivia:
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