The Evolution Of Common

I love music...ALL music...It's my life...Without it my soul would be tormented...Like seriously...Clothes are fly and jewelry is nice but music...That's what I live for...I recently lost my entire iTunes catalog...Over 4,500 songs and I think it might be a loss I'll never get over...The pain is worse than any breakup I've known...The first two Common singles (The People and The Game) were in that catalog...I got them back in May and as soon as I heard them I instantly fell in love with Common...Again...

Growing up in LA you knew who Common Sense was...You remember the infamous beef with Ice Cube and you knew Common for the lyricist he was and you always knew he'd be a force to be reckoned with but never in a million years would you have seen the evolution of Common Sense coming...

The man we see now is Common Sense grown up...He's come full circle...Of course he's always been a great lyricist but in the "Can I Borrow A Dollar?" days he was a lil hardcore and a lil thug...He was young and proving his manhood...He was caught up in beef with gangster rappers and doing things that you could never imagine Common doing today...Then the battle for the name persued and he had to drop the Sense and he became Common (which is crazy...'cuz he's anything BUT common)...Then Common fell in love with a woman with such a strong soul the men she dates can't help but let her soul permeate theirs and let their souls meld (at least for a hot sec)...During this time we got Common in love...In love with her, with himself, with hip hop...We got albums like "Electric Circus and Like Water For Chocolate"...Then it was over and he was a free man...He was no longer the young Common Sense or Common in love...He was a grown Common who had now experienced a lil more life and had a lil more loot but he was also single and so in his new found glory we got the album "BE" which was liberating but this new album "Finding Forever" shows Common is back to his roots...Back to the people...Back to the music that both he and I love so dearly and it's classic hip hop that will be loved forever...

- Quick Common Fact: He's the first rapper to have his album sold in Starbucks

*NOTE: I wrote this BEFORE I went to the Heineken Red Star Soul Concert last night...All I can really say is after that show I love Common even more...His freestyle is still sick...His stage show entertaining...He's what hip hop is all about...