Common and John Legend took home an award for Best Original Song for “Glory” from Selma last night at the Golden Globes Awards. The pair beat out Lana Del Rey, Sia, Lorde, and Patti Smith in the category with a collaboration that appears in the movie based on true events about the Selma to Montgomery civil rights marches in the 1960s.
Accepting the award with some words that echo his lyrics on the song, Common said, “Now is our time to change the world. Selma is now.”
In the song itself, the veteran Chicago icon delivers a similar line: “Selma is now for every man, woman, and child / Even Jesus got his crown in front of a crowd,” he raps, “They marched with the torch, we gon’ run with it now / Never look back we done gone hundreds of miles.”
Both artists took to social media after the win to celebrate with fans and Jay Z even acknowledged the achievement himself via his rarely-used Twitter account.
Watch Common and John Legend’s acceptance speech for the award below:
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Great speech by Common, one of the best spoken and greatest thinkers in Hip Hop.
Great, another gay ass cliched song winning. They were probably paid off to give common the award.
I’m a Common fan, but if these film Academies wanted to show us love, they should’ve awarded 100 Black Coffins from Tarantino’s Django flick best song.
Common has truely sold out the two fallen cop foh nigga
I dislike the part when he says “even Jesus got his crown in front of a crowd” Lord Jesus Christ died on the cross, bleeding head to toe… In the most pain possible to die for our sins. YES he did get his crown in front of a crowd but it was a crown of thorns … Not only did he not want to be known as king but he already thought everyone would realize he was the son of GOD. So keep you’re stupid song common… Yes my Lord got his crown but you have no idea the pain he went through to get his thorn crown. His biggest sin was dying for our sins.. common is a sell out and I’m disappointed in him. It posses me off when he said that in the song .. I felt like he didn’t really care when Jesus had went through. Unlike Martin Luther king , Malcolm X and any other “black pride” person they are dead… Jesus my Lord and saviour is alive… I can’t STAND famous musicians!!!!