In the next installment of the 2DopeBoyz/Restless Films "VS" series, Common pays homage to Nas "Life's a Bitch." Look out for his new studio album The...
Tweet Director Court Dunn and the guys at 2DopeBoyz have this pretty rad series in which they ask rappers to recite their favorite verses. And after b...
Last night some of Hip-Hop's greatest took the stage at the 2012 Grammy Nominations Concert to pay tribute to Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five. Th...
Tweet Hip-hop fans who love seeing shows at Colorado's historic Red Rocks Amphitheatre are in for a serious treat next month. According to the Audio P...
Tweet Starting at 2 p.m. (EST) sharp, Common will be performing live on YouTube in anticipation of his upcoming new album, The Dreamer, The Believer. ...
From Common's forthcoming album, The Dreamer/The Believer, Chi-town's most prolific MC premieres a new track right here on VIBE.com. On the song, aptl...
Tweet I read a tweet the other day stating that Common must have listened to his older, slightly softer material and scoffed at it while recording his...
Tweet I read a tweet the other day stating that Common must have listened to his older, slightly softer material and scoffed at it while recording his...
With his The Dreamer, The Believer album hitting stores next week and a new show Hell On Wheels on AMC, Common stopped by 'Chelsea Lately' to get some...
Tweet Considering our focus here is music, we have mostly reported on the fact that Common has a new album due out next week. But he's got a whole lot...
That's right, folks. Common and Warner Bros. has blessed us with a full stream of the MC's upcoming album, The Dreamer/The Believer. Take an early lis...
Common is the rapper that just keeps on giving. After blessing the hip-hop world with a full stream of his upcoming LP, The Dreamer/The Believer, Comm...
Check out the world premiere of Common's latest video "Celebrate." Check Out: V Premiere! Inside Common's 'The Dreamer/The Believer' Video Shoot V Pre...
Tweet Common apparently has more than enough reasons to throw a party in his video for "Celebrate": he's rocking a fresh tux, has a Grammy in his hand...
With the Maya Angelou controversy over his song "The Dreamer" cleared up, Common can now drop his newest release, The Dreamer/The Believer, with a cle...
With Common's The Dreamer, The Believer hitting shelves today, it looks like the Chicago-veteran emcee may need to put the "Celebration" on hold to re...
The communication line must have gotten twisted somewhere along the line between Common and the esteemed Dr. Maya Angelou. Originally, the NY Post rel...
Common's ninth studio album The Dreamer, The Believer was released today and it serves up twelve tracks of classic tunes from the Chi-town MC. In VIBE...
Common was the latest rapper to stop by Power 105's The Breakfast Club, and of course Envy, Charlamagne, and Angela Yee had a lot to throw at the rapp...
Celebrating the release of his new album at the House of Blues in Los Angeles, Common had a special treat for the West Coast audience. None other than...
New music videos for your viewing pleasure. 1. Pusha T "What Dreams Are Made Of" Pusha drops a new video for one of the tracks off Fear of God 2: Let ...
Tweet Make no mistake, Common's talking to Drake on the "Stay Schemin'" remix. But in case you need catching up, here goes: you might have heard that ...
Tweet Have y'all been paying attention to the Common vs. Drake rap "beef?" Do you think Drake is "soft" for being in Degrassi, or is Common "soft" for...
Ring the bell. The rap battle between Drake and Common has officially begun. Comm's scathing diss track where he name checks Drake is already all over...
Last night, VIBE's own Datwon Thomas had the opportunity to get the skinny on Common's ongoing "beef" with Drake. During XM's Hip-Hop Nation (hosted b...
Tweet Common was interviewed on Sirius' Hip Hop Nation show yesterday, and he basically said that his battle with Drake, which began on wax with "Swee...
accomplishments of African American dignitaries and this year the honorees are Stevie Wonder, Maya Angelou, Spike Lee, Mariah Carey, Beverly Kearney a...
Tweet Common took a break from talking about his beef with Drake this past weekend to attend Dwyane Wade's thirtieth birthday party in South Beach, Fl...
Common stopped by to chat with WGCI's Tony Sculfield and the Morning Riot radio show in Chicago.The crew followed up on his ongoing Drake "beef" and d...
VIBE caught up with Elijah Kelley, Tristan Wilds and Ne-Yo to chat about the importance of the movie Red Tails and who punked out at bootcamp. The con...
Common has his hands full these days--in between releasing his latest album The Dreamer, The Beliver, making his TV debut on the series Hell On Wheels...
who really made this all newsworthy in the first place -- is done with it, too. We, of course, already sort of knew this six days ago, but those comme...
show that features rappers talking about famous songs (one episode featured people talking about Tribe's "Scenario"). The show is coming back for anot...
Thank you, Internet, for sharing this holy neo-soul gem from the vaults. According to the folks at Bama Love Soul, Raphael Saadiq and Steve Spacek tea...
Tweet I know what you might be thinking: "Wait, didn't you guys already write an article on the fact that Common deaded his beef with Drake?" Well, ye...
Tweet When Common's not throwing verbal darts at other MCs on his new album, he's using The Dreamer/The Believer to spit socially/politically heavy ba...
Although Justin Bieber will sadly not return to the NBA All-Star Celebrity Game this year to defend his tiny, Canadian crown, the annual basketball ev...
While both Drake and Common put this "beef" to bed at the 54th annual Grammy Awards, we never thought they would get this close. The two rappers where...
Tweet After a successful reunion show at SXSW in March, The Jesus and Mary Chain continue their welcome return with a slot at Montreal's Osheaga Music...
RELATED CONTENTView Photo Jackson Browne, Common, Pete Seeger and More Rally to Free Leonard Peltier Last December, an Illinois mother sentenced to 22...
RELATED CONTENTView Photo Jackson Browne and Common Unite to Bring Leonard Peltier Home During a phone call from a Florida prison minutes before Frida...
song they recorded together in 1991. Browne followed with a tribute to his Native American friend, the late Floyd Westerman, with covers of "Boarding ...
Next month, Portland indie-pop experimenter Thao Nguyen, who records as Thao & The Get Down Stay Down, will release her now album We The Common. We ha...
We The Common is the latest album of wound-up, experimentally minded indie-pop that Portland's Thao Nguyen has recorded under the name Thao & The Get ...
Common latest collaboration isn't appearing on any new album, mixtape or music blog. The Chicago rapper has linked with AT&T and Case-Mate for the lau...
Common has seen plenty since the release of his debut LP, 1992's Can I Borrow A Dollar?, including two Grammy awards, headlining movie roles and more ...
Jay-Z's rap influence continues to shine. After Hov picked up his figurative pen for the fiery "Open Letter" a number of other spitters have followed ...
Common's sixth solo LP Be was instantly anointed a masterpiece when it dropped in 2005. Powered by Kanye West and J Dilla's soulful instrumentals, the...
Tweet Common's back again with another remix. He went hard on Jay Z's "Open Letter" and now gets groovy with Chris Brown's Michael Jackson homage "Fin...
The JazzReggae Festival at UCLA is celebrating its 27th year this Memorial Day Weekend! Headliners Santigold, Common, Ziggy Marley, Barrington Levy, a...
