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 […]
Michelle Obama Speaks On Common Michelle Obama finally spoke up about inviting rapper/actorCommon to the White House. Common’s visit to the White House received nation headlines over the last two weeks, due to critics arguing that the rapper’s invitation to the first lady’s poetry session was distasteful because of his praise of convicted cop killers. […]
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 […]
Daily Show: Tone Def Poetry Jam The host of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, Jon Stewart takes aim at Fox News and other media outlets for targeting Chicago rapper, Common as a misogynist who threatened law enforcement in a 2007 lyric. Read more
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 […]
Common and Maya Angelou were recently part of a joint interview and spoke on a number of topics including the first time they met and bridging the generational gap with Hip-Hop. The two were reunited by GoWhere Hip-Hop during the first annual Common Ground Foundation gala that also featured ‘The View’ host Sherri Shepherd and actress Keke […]
Hip-hop star Common is opening up his recording studio to one lucky fan, in a bid to raise $50,000 for kids living in high risk communities. The hip-hop “legend” (or so says his website), is the driving force behind a very worthwhile foundation called the “Common Ground Foundation,” which he says aims to help people […]
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.
Chris Brown and Common took to the court this past weekend for the 10th Annual Jack in the Box Celebrity Shoot out at Us Airways Center in Phoenix, Arizona. There was a lot of eye candy on the roster as Terrence J, Pooch Hall, Kerry Rhodes, Lil Romeo and more joined them for the celebrity basket […]
Serena Williams’ best friend, Selita Ebanks paid The Wendy Williams Show and was hit with a question about her friend’s relationship with Common. Wendy wanted to know if Common had proposed to Serena over the holidays as was rumored.
