Common and John Legend took home the Oscar for Best Original Song at the 87th Annual Academy Awards for their song “Glory” on the Selma soundtrack. The song, which runs during the end credits of the film, was co-written by Rhymefest.
The award became just the third given to a Hip Hop song in the category following Eminem’s win for “Lose Yourself” in 2002 and Three Six Mafia’s for “It’s Hard Out Here For A Pimp” in 2005.
During his acceptance speech, Common referenced a recent performance of the song in Selma and its modern-day relevance around the world.
“Recently John and I got to go to Selma and perform ‘Glory’ on the same bridge that Dr. King and the people of the Civil Rights movement marched on, 50 years ago,” he said. “This bridge was once a landmark of a divided nation, but now it’s a symbol for change. The spirit of this bridge transcends race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, and social status. The spirit of this bridge connects a kid from the South Side of Chicago dreaming of a better life to those in France standing up for their freedom of expression to the people in Hong Kong protesting for democracy. This bridge was built on hope, welded with compassion, and elevated by love for all human beings.”
“Glory” beat out songs from The Lego Movie, Beyond the Lights, Begin Again, and more. Common and John Legend’s song was notably only one of two nominations for Selma, the other of which came in the form of a Best Picture nod.
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It’s amazing to me that this isn’t highlighted more on this site and others but you will post things that don’t matter in the culture of hiphop.
The homie Common came a long ass way from Ressurection, congrats to the big homie. Big up to John Legend as well, nigga has some classic songs in the catalog
Please post the speech. Everyone needs to see that
Rhymefest gotta be one of the goat ghostwriters/co-writers I swear
Definitely!… or the most slept-on/underrated artists to have in the studio recording sessions. I don’t believe in coincidences these days
well done
Indicud (the greatest album ever made) > Yeezus
Well done!!! well deserved South Africa send some love to you guys
Common gotta try and get that EGOT now, he can do it
irrelevant. No drake no importance no fuck given. The only time people even remembered common existed was when he name dropped drake. Bum ass niggas
lol your joking right. Common is a legend in rap. If you really believe that you need to drop hip hop and turn on your top 40 hits.
Yeah dude who just won an oscar, performed for the president, is in movies/commercials all the time, and a slew of classic songs and albums is the definition of irrelevant.
In 2015 no 1 listens to common. The past is the past presently in hip hop common is irrelevant especially compared to drake
Go shoot yourself
in 2015 common won an oscar and a grammy, what did drake win this year?
Drake can’t even find stability & support in his own crew… so the only thing he runs is his mouth at Raptor games!! Even Nikki know that fake clown is “sweet”…
Plus, Common ethered him in front of the world… & what did Pretty Boy Drizzy do?!! Not a damn thing.[Dude was too scared to even mention Common]
…if u can’t tell, I don’t Puck with the Pretty Boy Flizzy ass rappers of today. All the truly talented artists are students of the True School [of Hip-Hop]. Know & believe that!
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