Common hit the mark with his 2005 solo album Be that featured production solely from Kanye West and J Dilla. During an interview with Complex, the Chicago, Illinois rapper said that he hopes to record a follow up to the LP with West, explaining that it’s about timing but that it could yield classic material.
“Yes. You know, when the time is right, I would love to get together [with Kanye] on some more music. It would be an act of passion, it would be a creative project. It would be fun instead of, “I ain’t gotta do it, he ain’t gotta do it.” It’s not like we had to do it then or when we first did it, but it’d be a fun thing for us to do,” he said. “No matter where you go, you get reminded and you’re like, ‘I got into this because I love making music, I love Hip Hop, and I love being creative.’ Being able to work together with Kanye would be one of those experiences for me. How with No I.D. I had an experience like, ‘This is what I do. This is Hip Hop.'”
He also touched on how he wishes he could have been on “Mercy.” While explaining what it was like to contribute to G.O.O.D. Music’s Cruel Summer compilation, Com said that he was too busy to participate. “To be honest, I’ve been in the studio and I was doing some recording, but it was mostly me, Big Sean, Cyhi, Pusha, and Teyana in there. For me, it was fun to just be able to rock with them and cats is smoking, cats is doing what they do, having fun more than anything. Just figuring it out. I can remember Big Sean being like, ‘You should get on this’ talking about ‘Mercy.’ I wanted to get on that. I wish I would’ve gotten on it,” he said. “I was working, doing something. Eventually the record, it got done quicker than I could get my verse out. They put it out and it was banging.”
Read the full interview at Complex.com.
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YES PLEASE
Common= irrelevant, and probably gay, that smile supicious.
Thought that’s what “Finding Forever” was…meh NEW COM AND YE’!
Kanye isn’t gonna waste his time with a clown like Common. Common is completely irrelevant. This guy can’t move any units whatsoever. No one is checking for his music anymore. You can officially put a fork in him.
Things are so bad for him that he was living with his manager in Chicago and the place for foreclosed on. Damn! Guess he should have worked with Drake instead of throwing subliminals.
From now on, Kanye is going to be working with YMCMB, MMG, and Kendrick Lamar.
Common has more success in his toe nail clippings than you will ever have.
Dude, check your history….Common helped Kanye when Ye was doin beats in other dudes basements. These two are actual friends so sorry, if Ye stops dealing with his friend when his friend was there before all this…thats b$tch sh%t…PERIOD
Stick a fork in common…cause that sassage is done!
Talib and Mos helped kanye the most out of anyone.. you see them on the album?No..Its about whatt he kids like.. Unfortunatly its 2 chainz 4 Braclets.
So your saying Mos Def ain’t gonna be on Cruel Summer?
Because that’s where your wrong…
common > drake
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKXZiezvF5w&feature=context-cha
yeah.i myself think it should have been common over 2 chainz
COMMON Sense > Tity Boi
Be dope, Finding Forever dope. I hope this happens soon. Chemistry is very rare , keep Real Good music flowing. Fuck the common haters talking bout sales…what about skills u fake wannabes?
What about you guys supporting him to make his numbers more respectable? Otherwise he’s just another rapper that gets sucked off on the internet.
Be, be here, be there, be that, be this
Be grateful for life, be grateful to life
Be gleeful everyday, for bein the best swimmer among 500,000
Be-nign, be you, be mom’s mean pie, be little black sambo With bad hair
Be aware of Willie Lynch’s, Be, be boundless energy
Be a four star ghetto general, be no one except I
Be a strong academic student, be an A student in sociology
Be food for thought to the growin mind, be the author of your own horoscope
Be invited, be long-living, be forgiving, be not forgetful
Be a proud run, only to return to fight another day
Be peaceful if possible, but justice in ways (?)
Be high when you low, be on time but know when to go
Be cautious of the road to college, takin a detour through Vietnam or the middle east
Be absent of wars at any past or present fought amongst themselves
Be visual of foreclosure over your shoulder while beggin
A nation built on free labor for reparation, Be a cartographer
Be a map maker, be able to find Afro-american land
Search thoroughly it may be close to black land
Be amended 5/5ths, be amended 5/5ths human
Be the owner of more land than is set aside for wild life
Be cupid, to world government
Be found among the truth, lost tribe
Be at full strength when walking through the valley
Be not foolish as temporary king of the mountain top
Be a brilliant soul, sparkling in the galaxy while walking on earth
Be loved by God as much as God loved Gandhi and Martin Luther King
Be that last one of 144,000, be the resident of that twelfth house
Be… eternal!
People saying Common is isn’t “relevant” anymore well y’all listen to what’s “relevant” with shit like this
“Shorty so fine, pussy so fresh
Diced pineapples that my baby tastes the best
I nearly lost my mind, guess it was a test
Swept her off her feet and went and bought her ass a Lex
Paid it off cash so I never wrote a check
Leave my cars at her crib I’m just stuntin’ on her ex
Pussy’s excellent and I know it sound a mess
I love to make her toes curl as I’m lickin’ on her flesh uhh
Sex all night, couple shots of Ciroc
Crib on the water, got LeBron up the block
Money ain’t the thing baby, welcome to the Mark
Diced pineapples, talking diamonds by the jar
Bitch so bad got me wishing I could sign her
Uniform Isabel Marant when you on the team
Double MG them other niggas fell off, baby girl I just wanna see you well off”
I’ll just go ahead and peep knowledge off this
“These are the words of a believer
Achiever, leader of the globe
Feeding souls of those in need
I bleed the blood of the struggle
Walking over troubled puddles
Hustles in my chest, no hustle no progress
Extremities of life and it’s process
Birth of a son, death of another
With love I caress both mothers
And told em, whos in control is the one thats above us
I walk where money talks and love stutters
Body language of a nation going through changes
The young become dangerous, pain gets spent into anger
Anger gets sent through the chamber
Its tough when your own look like strangers
We are the sons of gangsters and stone rangers
If he could how would Ernie Barnes paint us?
Look at the picture, hard not to blame us
But time forgives in the Chi where the young die often
Do they end up in a coffin because we havent taught them?
Is it what we talking we really ain’t walking?
Dues hustlers pay, how much did it cost em?
Find myself on the same corner that we lost em
Real talking, in they ear like a walkman
Thoughts spin around the corner to the world
When I see them, I see my baby girl
Believe!”
Bang (Mike Breen voice)
Rather have heard Common than 2 Chainz ass on Mercy
i love common but i can’t imagine him on “mercy” 2 chainz was a perfect fit for that…i don’t really like com on “commercial records”
The Dreamer, The believer was a dope album… he was transitioning with labels which is probably why it got less exposure..
Dude is super relevant.. one of the greatest lyricists in my opinion, always speaking from the heart.
Hope he’ll never do that.
Dude, u are always dissing everybody that has ‘K’ in their name but I never seen u diss Frank Ocean. U must be a Frank Ocean ass dude that enjoy cocks or a fat white boy that tries so hard to be black
Go to a goddamn Frank Ocean article to see if “I never dissed him.” Bitch, you can take a dick in the anus, but you can’t take a fucking joke?!?! Then just let me see your ugly face and shove it down your throat. Get therapy nigga.
This obese white kid is trying so hard to be black. Yawl skinny jean oversized shoe wearing cats kill me. If I saw u in real life, I am slapping u back go ur momma’s basement
^ What you gonna do then, cry to your momma? At least be a real man and come try to “slap me back to my mother’s basement”. Queers make me sick.
nigga drink your ensure and chill
Work with Drake and you’ll be relevant for the first time in forever.
See if Drake is around in 2028…
Common wont be alive in 2028 he is like 45.
Well he wouldn’t be 70 yet at that time and you dipshit that wasn’t the point I was making, Common has been around since 1994 let’s see if anybody gives a fuck about Drake in 18 years when he’s back on Degrassi…
justice for treyvon martin
R.I.P. Mac Dre
R.I.P. Nate Dogg
R.I.P. Aaliyah
Rick Ross:
Common= irrelevant, and probably gay, that smile supicious.
^ I have more relevancy in being anonymous than you taking a rapper’s name just to comment.
And while you’re at it, stop scrutinizing men’s photographs and telling the world what you think.
RIP Ernest Borgnine
RIP Tay
RIP Common’s relevance
And yours was never alive…
RIP Bo Troop
Hoo???
Finding Forever should have featured Drake.
Then he would have found forever.
And maybe if you could talk to a real life girl you could find your way outta your momma’s crib.
Does Kanye even produce beats by himself anymore? Not saying that’s a bad thing but times have changed since they recorded Be.
I feel you dude, personally I like the Kanye beats by himself.
lets get a remix feat Common . it could be a bonus track on the deluxe edition of cruel summer. A com verse would be interesting.
Game changed and Draked Sunned u…shame Ressurection is in my top 3 all time
ur kidding right?
drake aint sonnin noone
Common = Top 5 MC
Yes top 5 SWEET mc
Even aside from his own projects, Kanye has been a part of so many classic, it’s unreal.
I wanna go back on all these people with the Drake talk and how Common is irrelevant.. Every credible hip-hop critic praised The Dreamer, The Believer.. which was released at the end of 2011. Is that not relevant? The songs on there are all higher quality than all of MMG and YMCMB combined. Let’s be real too; Drake’s “Thank Me Later” and “Take Care” are only downgrades from his fire debut which I actually enjoyed. Just because he’s what is cool to teenagers doesn’t make Common inferior or irelevant.
The summary is that Common is a legend and Drake is just hot right now (which I doubt that his next album will sale near as much)
“let’s see if anybody gives a fuck about Drake in 18 years”
Today’s MC’s don’t have to worry about career longevity. All they need is maybe 5 good years.
… you’re a fucking idiot.
Hollow Tip > Common Sense