A%2F%2Fhypebeast.com%2Fimage%2F2011%2F11%2F1960s-ibm-standard-issue-clock-0.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=max&fm=pjpg&h=344&ixlib=php-1.1.0&q=90&w=516&s=ae16cf1439c782488d3c274c25cf17b7' alt='The Dreamer The Believer Zip Common' title='The Dreamer The Believer Zip Common' />Common rapper Wikipedia. Common. Common at a signing for his book,One Day Itll All Make Sense. Tribeca, Manhattan in 2. Background information. Birth name. Lonnie Rashid Lynn Jr. Also known as. Common Sense. Born1. 97. 2 0. March 1. Chicago, Illinois, United States. Genres. Hip hop. OccupationsRapper, actor, poet, film producer. Years active. 19. Labels. Think Common, ARTium, Def Jam, UniversalcurrentRelativity, MCA, Geffen, GOOD, Warner Bros. Associated acts. Cocaine 8. Erykah Badu, J Dilla, Pharrell, Soulquarians, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Kanye West, John Legend, Fort Minor, Tef Poe, Kid Cudi, will. Websitethinkcommon. Lonnie Rashid Lynn, Jr. March 1. 3, 1. 97. Common formerly Common Sense, is an American hip hop recording artist, actor, poet and film producer from Chicago, Illinois. Common debuted in 1. Singing Exercises For Dummies Torrent. Can I Borrow a DollarSoulquarians. In 2. Common launched Think Common Entertainment, his own record label imprint, and, in the past, has released music under various other labels such as Relativity, Geffen and GOOD Music, among others. Commons first major label album, Like Water for Chocolate, received widespread critical acclaim and tremendous commercial success. His first Grammy Award was in 2. Best R B Song for Love of My Life, with Erykah Badu. Its popularity was matched by May 2. Its understandable to feel very perplexed when somebody says one thing and does another. Its all the more confusing when they literally told you something only. In the biggest official files leak in history nearly 400,000 Iraq war logs reveal the massive scale of civilian deaths and new torture allegations. Join the Think Common mailing list for updates. Be, which was nominated for Best Rap Album, at the 2. Grammy Awards. Common was awarded his second Grammy for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group, for Southside featuring Kanye West, from his July 2. Finding Forever. His best of album, Thisisme Then The Best of Common, was released on November 2. Common won the 2. Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song and the 2. Academy Award for Best Original Song, for his song Glory from the 2. Selma, in which he co starred as Civil Rights Movement leader James Bevel. Commons acting career also includes starring significant roles in the films Smokin Aces, Street Kings, American Gangster, Wanted, Terminator Salvation, Date Night, Just Wright, Happy Feet Two, New Years Eve, Run All Night, Being Charlie, and John Wick Chapter 2. He also narrated the award winning documentary Bouncing Cats, about one mans efforts to improve the lives of children in Uganda through hip hopb boy culture. He starred as Elam Ferguson on the AMCwestern television series Hell on Wheels. Early lifeeditLonnie Rashid Lynn, Jr. March 1. 3, 1. 97. Chicago Osteopathic Hospital in Chicagos Hyde Park neighborhood, the son of educator Dr. Mahalia Ann Hines and former ABA basketball player turned youth counselor Lonnie Lynn Sr. He was raised in the Calumet Heights neighborhood. Lynns parents divorced when he was six years old, resulting in his father moving to Denver, Colorado. This left Lynn to be raised by his mother, however, his father remained active in his life, and was able to get Lynn a job with the Chicago Bulls as a teenager. While a student at Luther High School South in Chicago, Lynn, along with two of his friends formed C. D. R., a rap trio that opened for acts such as N. W. A and Big Daddy Kane. 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Lynn attended Florida A M University for two years under a scholarship and majored in business administration. After being featured in the Unsigned Hype column of The Source magazine, Lynn debuted in 1. Take It EZ, followed by the album Can I Borrow a Dollar, under stage name Common Sense. Music careeredit1. Career beginningseditWith the 1. Resurrection, Common Sense achieved a much larger degree of critical acclaim, which extended beyond Chicago natives. The album sold relatively well and received a strong positive reaction among alternative and underground hip hop fans at the time. Resurrection was Common Senses last album produced almost entirely by his long time production partner, No I. D., who would later become a mentor to a young Kanye West. In 1. 99. 6, Common Sense appeared on the Red Hot Organizations compilation CD, America Is Dying Slowly A. I. D. S., alongside Biz Markie, Wu Tang Clan, and Fat Joe, among many other prominent hip hop artists. The CD, meant to raise awareness of the AIDS epidemic among African American men, was heralded as a masterpiece by The Source magazine. He would later also contribute to the Red Hot Organizations Fela Kuti tribute album, Red Hot and Riot in 2. He collaborated with Djelimady Tounkara on a remake of Kutis track, Years of Tears and Sorrow. Common performing with Mos Def, 1. The song I Used to Love H. E. R. from Resurrection ignited a feud with West Coast rap group. Westside Connection. The lyrics of the song criticized the path hip hop music was taking, and were interpreted by some as directing blame towards the popularity of West Coast gangsta rap. Westside Connection first responded with the 1. Westside Slaughterhouse, with the lyrics Used to love H. E. R., mad cause I fucked her. Westside Slaughterhouse also mentioned Common Sense by name, prompting the rapper to respond with the scathing Pete Rock produced attack song The Bitch in Yoo. Common Sense and Westside Connection continued to insult each other back and forth before finally meeting with Louis Farrakhan and setting aside their dispute. Following the popularity of Resurrection, Common Sense was sued by an Orange County based reggae band with the same name, and was forced to shorten his moniker to simply Common. One Day Itll All Make SenseeditInitially scheduled for an October 1. Common finally released his third album, One Day Itll All Make Sense, in September 1. The album took a total of two years to complete and included collaborations with artists such as Lauryn Hill, De La Soul, Q Tip, Canibus, Black Thought, Chantay Savage, and Questlove a future fellow member of the Soulquarians outfit. The album, which made a point of eschewing any gangsterism in response to questions about his musical integrity, was critically acclaimed and led to a major label contract with MCA Records. In addition to releasing One Day, Commons first child, daughter Omoye Assata Lynn, was born shortly after the release of the album. As documented by hip hop journalist Raquel Cepeda, in the liner notes for the album, this event had a profound spiritual and mental effect on Common and enabled him to grow musically while becoming more responsible as an artist. She writes Rashid found out that he was going to become a daddy in about 8 months. Stunned and confused, Rashid had life altering decisions to make with his girlfriend, Kim Jones. The situation led to the composition of his favourite cut on One Day. Retrospect for Life, produced by James Poyser and No I. D. featuring Lauryn Hill who was due on the same day as Rashids girlfriend, is the song that is the driving force behind the project. Rashid listens to Retrospect for Life today at the mastering session geeked, as if it were for the first time. He tells me as we listen to L Boogie wail the chorus, when I listen to the song now, I think about how precious her Omoyes life is. Common addresses family ethics several times on One Day., and the album sleeve is decorated with old family photos, illustrating the rappers childhood, as well a quote from 1 Corinthians 1. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. Soulquarians eraedit. Common 2. 00. 3 in New York City. Following One Day., Common signed a major label record deal with MCA Records and relocated from Chicago to New York City in 1. He began recording almost exclusively with a loose collective of musicians and artists dubbed the Soulquarians by central figure Questlove throughout 1. The Roots Things Fall Apart, and the Rawkus Records compilation, Soundbombing 2. In 2. 00. 0, his fourth album, Like Water for Chocolate, was released to mass critical acclaim.