Biography

Common (originally Common Sense) was a highly influential figure in rap's underground during the '90s, keeping the sophisticated lyrical technique and flowing syncopations of jazz-rap alive in an era when commercial gangsta rap was threatening to obliterate everything in its path. His literate, intelligent, nimbly performed rhymes and political consciousness certainly didn't fit the fashions of the moment, but he was able to win a devoted cult audience. By the late '90s, a substantial underground movement had set about reviving the bohemian sensibility of alternative rap, and Common finally started to receive wider recognition as a creative force. ~ Steve Huey

Top Tracks

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• All Night Long

• Book Of Life

• Breaker 1-9

• Cloth

• Come Close

• Come Close (closer)

• Drivin' Me Wild

• G.o.d. (gaining One's Definition)

• Ghetto Dreams

• Gladiator

• Go!

• Gold

• I Am Music

• I Got A Right Ta

• I Used To Love H.e.r.

• Inhale

• Love Is...

• Nag Champa (afrodisiac For The World)

• Next Time [just Right Version]

• Reminding Me (of Sef)

• Resurrection

• Retrospect For Life

• So Far To Go

• Testify

• The Dreamer

• The 6th Sense

• The Bitch In Yoo

• The Corner

• The Game

• The Hustle

• The Light

• The People

• This Is Me

• Universal Mind Control (umc)

Discography

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• The Dreamer/The Believer

  Think Common / Warner Bros.

  2011

• Universal Mind Control

  Geffen

  2008