Common
USA
Born: 13 March 1972
Styles: Alternative Rap, Hip-Hop/Urban, Hip-Hop/Urban, Underground Rap, Political Rap, Jazz-Rap, Midwest Rap
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Common (originally Common Sense) was a highly influential figure in rap's underground during the '90s, keeping the sophisticated lyrical technique and flowing syncopations of jazz-rap alive in an era when commercial gangsta rap was threatening to obliterate everything in its path. His literate, intelligent, nimbly performed rhymes and political consciousness certainly didn't fit the fashions of the moment, but he was able to win a devoted cult audience. By the late '90s, a substantial underground movement had set about reviving the bohemian sen...
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