There’s something of an interconnectedness in this album’s presentation. It’s not just because the architects behind it, Common and Pete Rock, have collaborate... Read More...
Lonnie Rashid Lynn and I go back a long way. Not personally mind you - I've never met the man one on one - but I did drive all the way to Chicago in college jus... Read More...
I, like many, felt like 2014 was a very disappointing year. It got off to a slow start, and the summer was full of disappointing and underwhelming albums. A big... Read More...
The title of Common's latest offering "Nobody's Smiling" immediately evokes memories of Eric B. & Rakim's "In the Ghetto" for me. The interludes and scratc... Read More...
It would be the height of dishonesty if I didn't tell you from the jump that Lonnie Rashid Lynn Jr. b/k/a Common is one of my favorite artists out of the last ... Read More...
The following excerpts may have been stolen and transcribed from Common's Dictaphone. Everything recorded was supposed to make up his forthcoming unofficial au... Read More...