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Common
Sign in to saveAlso known as Lonnie R. Lynn, Common Sense, Lonnie Lynn, Lonnie Corant Jaman Shuka Rashid Lynn, Lonnie Rashid Lynn
American rapper and actor (born 1972)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 27
Top works
- The discharge of 37,000,000l. of the national debt, demonstrated to be part of the cause of the rapid dearness of provisions ...
- Pillars of the Hebrew Nation Part 1
- Strike! But read
- The cause of the present threatened famine traced to its real source, viz. an actual depreciation on our circulating medium, occasioned by the paper currency ...
- Common sense to John Bull
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1972-03-13
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1,972,605
- Total plays
- 43,915,695
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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 actor known for lyrics that focus on love and spirituality. Many people describe him as being a conscious hip hop artist who makes songs that send a message. He debuted in 1992 with the album Can I Borrow a Dollar? and maintained a significant underground following into the late 90s <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Com
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Economic growth and environmental degradation: The environmental Kuznets curve and sustainable development
· 1996 · cited 1,105x
- Exploring the phenotypic consequences of tissue specific gene expression variation inferred from GWAS summary statistics
· 2018 · cited 1,050x
- Rare coding variation provides insight into the genetic architecture and phenotypic context of autism
· 2022 · cited 554x
- Is There an Environmental Kuznets Curve for Sulfur?
· 2001 · cited 505x
- New challenges in polymer foaming: A review of extrusion processes assisted by supercritical carbon dioxide
· 2011 · cited 407x
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Quotes
- “My style is too developed to be arrested It's the freestyle, so now it's out on parole They tried to hold my soul in a holding cell so I would sell but I bonded with a break and had enough to make bail”
- “But once the man got you well he altered the native Told her if she got an image and a gimmick That she could make money, and she did it like a dummy Now I see her in commercials, she's universal She used to only swing it with the inner-city circle Now she be in the burbs lickin' rock and dressin' hip And on some dumb shit”
- “Granted we known each other for some time but it don't take a whole day to recognize sunshine”
- “The revolution will not be televised The revolution is here”
- “The perseverence of a rebel, I drop heavier levels of unseen or heard, a king with words Can't knock the hustle, but I've seen street dreams deferred Dark spots in my mind where the scene occurred Some say I'm too deep, but I'm in too deep to sleep”
- “I'm the truth, across the table from corporate lies Immortilized by the realness I bring to it If revolution had a movie I'd be theme music My music, you can either fight, fuck, or dream to it”
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Key facts
- Born
- Lonnie Rashid Lynn , ( 1972-03-13 ) March 13, 1972 (age 54) , Chicago , Illinois, U.S.
- Other name
- Common Sense
- Occupations
- Rapper songwriter actor activist
- Years active
- 1987–present
- Works
- Discography filmography
- Parents
- Lonnie Lynn (father) Mahalia Ann Hines (mother)
- Awards
- Full list
- Genres
- Midwestern hip-hop neo soul
- Instruments
- Vocals
- Labels
- Loma Vista Concord Think Common ARTium Def Jam Virgin EMI Warner Bros. Geffen GOOD MCA Warlock Rawkus Relativity
- Member of
- August Greene Cocaine 80s Soulquarians
- Website
- www .thinkcommon .com
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- thinkcommon.com
- Image
- Common - 2018 (41963868844) (cropped).jpg
- Number of children
- 1
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- Commons category
- Common (entertainer)
- date of birth
- 1972-03-13
- start of work period
- 1991-00-00
- pseudonym
- Common Sense
- social media followers
- 469000
- birth name
- Lonnie Rashid Lynn, Jr.
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Lonnie Rashid Lynn (born March 13, 1972), known professionally as Common (formerly known as Common Sense), is an American rapper, actor and activist. The recipient of three Grammy Awards, an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Golden Globe Award, he signed with the independent label Relativity Records at the age of 20. The label released his first three studio albums: Can I Borrow a Dollar? (1992), Resurrection (1994) and One Day It'll All Make Sense (1997). He maintained an underground following into the late 1990s, and achieved mainstream success through his work with the Black music collective Soulquarians.
After attaining a major label record deal, he released his fourth and fifth albums, Like Water for Chocolate (2000) and Electric Circus (2002), to continued acclaim and modest commercial response. He guest performed on fellow Soulquarian, Erykah Badu's 2003 single, "Love of My Life (An Ode to Hip-Hop)", which became his highest entry — at number nine — on the Billboard Hot 100 and won Best R&B Song at the 45th Annual Grammy Awards. He signed with fellow Chicago rapper Kanye West's record label GOOD Music, in a joint venture with Geffen Records to release his sixth and seventh albums Be (2005) and Finding Forever (2007); both were nominated for Best Rap Album Grammys, while the latter became his first to debut atop the Billboard 200 and contained the song "Southside" (featuring Kanye West), the recipient of Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards. His eighth album, Universal Mind Control (2008), was met with a critical decline and served as his final release with GOOD.