Common

   
Artist: Common

   Genre(s): 
Rap: Hip-Hop
   

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Discography:


   
 Thisisme Then (The Best Of Common)

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 15


   
 Finding Forever

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 12


   
 Be

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 11


   
 One Day It'll All Make Sense

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 17


   
 Can I Borrow a Dollar?

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 13

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Common (originally Common Sense) was a highly influential figure in rap's underground during the '90s, keeping the sophisticated lyric technique and flowing syncopations of jazz-rap alive in an epoch when commercial gangsta rap was minatory to efface everything in its path. His literate, well-informed, nimbly performed rhymes and political consciousness sure as shooting didn't fit the fashions of the second, simply he was able-bodied to win a devoted cult hearing. By the late '90s, a substantive metro apparent movement had plant around revitalising the gypsy sensitiveness of alternative rap, and Common in the end started to receive wider recognition as a creative power. Not just were his albums praised by critics, but he was capable to polarity with a major label that guaranteed him more exposure than ever so in front.


Usual was born Lonnie Rashied Lynn on the South Side of Chicago, an area not on the button famous for its fertile hip-hop scene. Nonetheless, he honed his skills to the point where -- acting as Common Sense -- he was able to catch his low gear break, victorious The Source magazine's Unsigned Hype contest. He debuted in 1992 with the individual "Take It EZ," which appeared on his Combat-released debut album, Throne I Borrow a Dollar?; farther singles "Breaker 1/9" and "Soul by the Pound" helped constitute his reputation in the hip-hop underground, although some critics complained just about the record's occasional misogynistic undertones. Common Sense after injury up on Ruthless Records for his 1994 reexamination, Resurrection, which crystallised his repute as one of the underground's best (and wordiest) lyricists. The track "I Used to Love H.E.R." attracted strong notice for its clever fable about rap's origin into commercially exploitive sex-and-violence study issue, and regular aggravated a ephemeral feud with Ice Cube. Subsequently, Common Sense was sued by a ska band of the same name, and was forced to expurgate his own moniker to Common; he likewise resettled from Chicago to Brooklyn.


Bumped up to parent label Relativity, Common issued the low gear album under his new name in 1997. One Day It'll All Make Sense capitalized on the fledgling revitalization of healthy hip-hop with several big guests, including Lauryn Hill, Q-Tip, De La Soul, Erykah Badu, Cee-Lo, and the Roots' Black Thought. The album was easily received in the weightlift, and Common raised his profile with several noteworthy client musca volitans o'er the next duo of age; he appeared on Pete Rock's Soul Survivor, addition two watermark albums of the new progressive rap movement, Mos Def and Talib Kweli's Pitch-black Star and the Roots' Things Fall Apart. Common likewise drug-addicted up with indie blame kingpins Rawkus for a one-off collaborationism with Sadat X, "1-9-9-9," which appeared on the label's originative Soundbombing, Vol. 2 compilation.


With his name popping up in all the correct places, Common landed a major-label deal with MCA, and brought on Roots drummer ?uestlove as producer for his next project. Like Water for Chocolate was released in early 2000 and sour into something of a breakthrough success, attracting more care than whatever Common album to escort (partly because of MCA's greater promotional resources). Guests this sentence around included Macy Gray, MC Lyte, Cee-Lo, Mos Def, D'Angelo, jazz trumpeter Roy Hargrove, and Afro-beat wizard Femi Kuti (on a protection to his legendary father Fela). Plus, the singles "The Sixth Sense" and "The Light" (the latter of which earned a Grammy nominating address for Best Rap Solo Performance) earned considerable airplay. Following that success, Common set the level for his next record with an appearance on Mary J. Blige's No More Drama in early 2002. He issued his virtually personal work to date with Electric Circus, a sprawl album that polarized fans, in December of that year. Be, a lots tighter record album that was produced primarily by Kanye West, followed in May 2005, netting four Grammy nominations. Also featuring extensive assistance from West, Finding Forever came out two age after.