Common

Person · Open Library

Works

27

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1972-03-13

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

1,972,605

Total plays

43,915,695

Lonnie Rashid Lynn, Jr. (born March 13, 1972 in Chicago, Illinois), better known by his stage name Common (previously Common Sense), is a Grammy award winning rapper, author and actor known for lyrics that focus on love and spirituality. Many people describe him as being a conscious hip hop artist who makes songs that send a message. He debuted in 1992 with the album Can I Borrow a Dollar? and maintained a significant underground following into the late 90s <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Com

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Economic growth and environmental degradation: The environmental Kuznets curve and sustainable development

   · 1996 · cited 1,114x

2. Exploring the phenotypic consequences of tissue specific gene expression variation inferred from GWAS summary statistics

   · 2018 · cited 1,085x

3. Rare coding variation provides insight into the genetic architecture and phenotypic context of autism

   · 2022 · cited 595x

4. Is There an Environmental Kuznets Curve for Sulfur?

   · 2001 · cited 507x

5. New challenges in polymer foaming: A review of extrusion processes assisted by supercritical carbon dioxide

   · 2011 · cited 410x

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Music

Quotes

• “My style is too developed to be arrested It's the freestyle, so now it's out on parole They tried to hold my soul in a holding cell so I would sell but I bonded with a break and had enough to make bail”
• “But once the man got you well he altered the native Told her if she got an image and a gimmick That she could make money, and she did it like a dummy Now I see her in commercials, she's universal She used to only swing it with the inner-city circle Now she be in the burbs lickin' rock and dressin' hip And on some dumb shit”
• “Granted we known each other for some time but it don't take a whole day to recognize sunshine”
• “The revolution will not be televised The revolution is here”
• “The perseverence of a rebel, I drop heavier levels of unseen or heard, a king with words Can't knock the hustle, but I've seen street dreams deferred Dark spots in my mind where the scene occurred Some say I'm too deep, but I'm in too deep to sleep”
• “I'm the truth, across the table from corporate lies Immortilized by the realness I bring to it If revolution had a movie I'd be theme music My music, you can either fight, fuck, or dream to it”

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Key facts

Born

Lonnie Rashid Lynn , ( 1972-03-13 ) March 13, 1972 (age 54) , Chicago , Illinois, U.S.

Other name

Common Sense

Occupations

Rapper songwriter actor activist

Years active

1987–present

Works

Discography filmography

Parents

Lonnie Lynn (father) Mahalia Ann Hines (mother)

Awards

Full list

Genres

Midwestern hip-hop neo soul

Instruments

Vocals

Labels

Loma Vista Concord Think Common ARTium Def Jam Virgin EMI Warner Bros. Geffen GOOD MCA Warlock Rawkus Relativity

Member of

August Greene Cocaine 80s Soulquarians

Website

www .thinkcommon .com

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