ghetto dreams

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,

As promised, Common and Nas have delivered a visual for their No I.D.-produced street elegy 'Ghetto Dreams,' which is the first single from Common's ninth album 'The Dreamer, The Believer.' In the Matt Alonzo-helmed video, we see the hood ode brought to life as Com and Nas nod off on the couch together awkwardly, and share a black-and-white dream of their hood queen, played by the ample Bria Myles

'Ghetto Dreams,' the new collaboration between Chi-town MC Common and Queensbridge rhymer Nas, is giving rap fans a boost in their faith that hip-hop is still thriving in the music industry. To help push the song further, the duo are crafting an accompanying video to support the ode to the hood...

Back on the scene with a new recording home at Warner Brothers, a new album produced by No I.D. and an entire conservative party outraged at his poetry, Common has returned spitting some of his hardest rhymes in over a decade with his new single 'Ghetto Dreams...

While details of Common's forthcoming ninth album 'The Dreamer, The Believer' have been sketchy, a recently released snippet of a new song means we should be getting some new information soon. FakeShoreDrive spotted that Amazon posted a 30 second snippet of a song called 'Ghetto Dreams,' which also features Nas, along with artwork featuring a photo of the veteran MCs in their younger days... Read