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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 ac
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Sounds like:
Chance The Rapper,
Common,
Chief Keef,
Kanye West
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Tobias Handke
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Sep 25, 2013
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I'm really not sure how I feel about Lupe Fiasco these days. The Chicago rapper's debut, Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor, was at the corner stone of skate-rap, and its follow up, Lupe Fiasco's The Cool, cemented Fiasco as one of hip-hop's most promis...
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Sounds like:
Common,
John Legend & The Roots,
Mos Def
By
Jason Grishkoff
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Jun 12, 2013
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Back when I started doing the Song of the Day series, we would quote other blogs rather than writing our own reviews. That changed after ~6 months, but it means that there's a whole back-catalog of amazing music on Indie Shuffle that just doesn't hav...
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Sounds like:
X Ambassadors & Jamie N Commons,
X Ambassadors,
Voxhaul Broadcast
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Sounds like:
Common,
John Legend & The Roots,
Mos Def
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Sounds like:
Common,
John Legend & The Roots,
Mos Def
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Joshua Mellin
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Jun 7, 2012
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Leave it to Deep Dish halve Sharam Tayebi, the man who made Eddie Murphy-as-singer cool again with his club-tastic 2006 re-imagining of the comedian's 80's hit "Party All The Time", to emerge triumphant in doing something as bonkers as melding class...
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Sounds like:
Reflection Eternal,
Common,
Talib Kweli & Hi-Tek
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By
Elizabeth Walker
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Nov 21, 2011
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Okay, I'm gonna say it: popular rap and hip hop of late has been more than disappointing. A genre which grew out of empowerment and self-expression has mainly been reduced to autotune and poorly executed samples from its archives. Last week, I heard ...
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sweeney kovar
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Aug 16, 2011
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Blu's long awaited major label debut, NoYork!, is still in the pipeline it seems, even though Warner Bros. themselves have yet to say a word about it. Hmmm.Regardless of artistically-suffocating corporate red tape, the two Flying Lotus-produced track...
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