Lonnie Rashid Lynn, Jr. aka the Chi town born hip hop conscious rap artist is set to release a 15 track compilation album titiled “thisisme then: the best of common” on Nov. 27^th. The 15 track compilation covers the hip hop artists early years from 1992-1997 and includes all of the hip hop artist’s solo hits from that period alongside collaborations with many hip hop notables such as Lauryn Hill (”Retrospect For Life”), Chantay Savage [”Reminding Me (Of Sef)”], Erykah Badu (”All Night Long”), Cee-Lo [”G.O.D. (Gaining One’s Definition”], Q-Tip (”Stolen Moments Pt. III”), and more.  Earlier this year, Common’s most recent album, “Finding Forever” (produced mostly by Kanye West) debuted at #1 the Billboard Top 200 Album chart - the artist’s first #1 debut. In the school of hip-hop noted by the positivism of such literate (and often jazz-influenced) hip hop artists as De La Soul, Digable Planets, the Roots, A Tribe Called Quest, Pharcyde, Jurassic 5, Gang Starr, Mos Def, Talib Kweli and others - Common has staked out his own unique and important position. With music as his artistic foundation, Common has followed in the footsteps of other rappers (such as Ludacris and Mos Def) into film Common is a multi talented hip hop artist who seems to be comfortable in many areas and has made his mark far beyond the hip hop community. Be sure to check out “thisisme then: the best of common” on Nov. 27^th on Legacy Recordings  

Web site: http://www.legacyrecordings.com/

Tags: common, hip hop, Music, rap

This entry was posted on Saturday, October 27th, 2007 at 8:21 pm and is filed under Gossip. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.