2007: All eyes were on Common as the hip-hop community was eager to see what he had up his sleeve after releasing the arguably classic Be album two years prior. One major blow to recreating that ...

There's certainly plenty to dislike about Finding Forever. Virtually every song falls into one of three cliched conscious-rap subjects: the vague and nebulous for-the-people non-statement, ...

Barring another Electric Circus-type detour down the psychedelic-rap off-ramp, it’s nearly impossible to conceive of Common, at this stage in a rock-solid rap career, coming out with a bad record.

While writing the follow-up to 2005’s Grammy-nominated Be, Chicago rapper Common drew inspiration from an unlikely place: Hollywood. “Acting opened up a new creative place for me,” says the rapper, ...

Common and Kanye West continue the sound of 2005's solid comeback Be with a follow-up that attempts to inject it with a bit of Dilla-fied Soulquarians style. Seeing as how Be was a commercial, ...

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