Common

With 2012 in full swing, it's time to look forward to what the new year will bring in the hip-hop and R&B worlds. With game-changers, newsmakers and a host of new albums on the way, the next 12 months will shape up to be a very interesting year in music, which is why we've compiled a list of industry predictions. F...

Fans of both Drake and Common have been paying close attention to the lyrical war that has erupted between the two. The Chi-town rapper, who dropped his ninth studio album, 'The Dreamer, The Believer,' last month, recently had the last word -- until the Toronto MC serves a new verse -- with his remix to Rick Ross' track 'Stay Schemin...

The war of words between Common and Drake has been escalating for some time, and while the attacks have mostly been covert in nature, things just got a whole lot more explosive. Early Monday (Jan. 9), DJ Sway Calloway premiered Common's 'Stay Schemin' (Remix),' in which the Chi-town rhymer addresses the Canadian MC by name, accusing him once again of being "soft...

Common knows what it means to dream and subsequently believe in something. The Southside Chicago native is light years away from where he started yet he still manages to connect with his beginnings on the most basic level. While his ninth LP, 'The Dreamer, The Believer,' has been receiving positive responses amongst critics, he's simultaneously promoting his latest dramatic turn on the AMC drama,

Common's ninth studio album, 'The Dreamer, The Believer,' drops Tues. (Dec. 20), however, the rapper's project is being cast in a negative light as word comes that poet Maya Angelou is angry with him over a featured collaboration. The Chi-town MC tapped the lauded poet to appear on the track, 'The Dreamer,' which showcases Angelou reading a poem that she penned, encouraging people to follow their

Common ninth studio album, 'The Dreamer, The Believer,' was set to debut right around the Thanksgiving Holiday, however, the project has experienced a delay, with the forthcoming release coming almost a month later. The latest single, 'Sweet' -- a follow-up to the Nas-assisted 'Ghetto Dreams' -- off the Chi-town MC's LP, is already in rotation, and he wants to give fans a little more time to diges

There's nothing like a song about poverty, prostitution, drugs, murder and overriding hopelessness to kick off the lead-up to "music's biggest night." On Wednesday's (Nov. 30) hour-long 'Grammy Nominations Concert Live,' set to air on CBS, LL Cool J, Common, Lupe Fiasco and Rick Ross will join hip-hop icons Grandmaster Flash, Melle Mel and Scorpio in performing their 1982 classic 'The Me

There were trophies to hand out at the 40th annual Soul Train Awards, which took place earlier this month in Atlanta and aired last night (Nov. 27) on BET, but as with any show of its kind, the real highlights were the live performances. Cee Lo Green, who won the prize for Best Male R&B/Soul Artist, turned in one of the night's many killer duets, getting into lover-man mode with singing partne

Plenty of rappers have shot videos in tropical locales, but 'Sweet,' the clip Common debuted last night (Nov. 14), is not your typical fun-and-sun escapist romp. It was filmed on location in Haiti, a country decimated by a 7.0 magnitude earthquake less than two years ago, and when the visuals premiered, fans wanting to watch the clip had to donate $1 to the J/P Haitian Relief Organization... Read

November is looking to be a big month for Common. Aside from the release of his ninth studio album, 'The Dreamer, The Believer,' and a spot in the animated film 'Happy Feet 2,' the Chicago native will debut his latest acting role on the AMC series 'Hell on Wheels...