Chicago native Common has signed on to co-produce a remake of the classic Black cinema piece Cooley High.
Common took an extra moment at the VH1 Hip-Hop Honors show to shout the women activists that have been holding it down for decades.
Common‘s longtime friend and producer No I.D. was a guest on Soulection Radio recently and left show with a parting gift. A new track from called “Home.”
Your girlfriend’s favorite rapper is on the cover of your mother’s favorite magazine. Common is the man of the month for the newest issue of EBONY magazine.
Common has officially gone Hollywood—in the best of ways. If he isn’t in your Top 10 as a rapper, maybe he’ll make the cut as a thespian, and he’s doing it alongside the RZA.
Why doesn’t Common get mentioned in more “Top MC” conversations?
Let this video of Common spitting straight fire be your coffee this morning.
Common took to Instagram to spit a few bars and hint at some new music coming soon.
As Barbershop 3: The Next Cut arrives in theaters nationwide today, the movie franchise’s creator Ice Cube admits that he really didn’t feel like making another one.
Ice Cube and Common recently settled their beef like some grown [rich] men and came together to make a song called “Real People” that appears on the soundtrack for Barbershop 3, a film they both act in. The new pals made their friendship official by performing the track on The Tonight Show.
Barbershop: The Next Cut, the third in the series, doesn’t drop until April, but today (Nov. 24) we get to see its first trailer. Common and Nicki Minaj are new to the fold while familiar faces like Ice Cube, Eve and Cedric the Entertainer also shine.
Almost as soon as photos of Drake and Serena Williams making out hit the Internets, trolls began wondering what would be Common‘s reaction. The Chicago rapper was recently asked about the tennis star and Drizzy rekindling their romance and he was nothing but gracious.
