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Releasing his 12th album in 27 years, Common talks to NME about personal growth, the Soulquarians, Nipsey Hussle and why he still loves '...H.E.R.'It's all about love for Common in 2019.Hip-hop has more than its fair share of quotable lyrics. Among them are the conflicted lines of Jay-Z’s ‘Moment of Clarity’ where the legendary MC opts to abandon appeasing rap purists in favour of lining his pockets. “Truthfully I wanna rhyme like Common Sense/ But I did five mill’ — I ain’t been rhyming like […]The post Common: “I needed to unlearn some of the things I thought I had to be as a black person" appeared first on NME.
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All with a common theme of Badness... Bastille's Dan SmithBastille have tackled a new mash-up that sees them covering Billie Eilish, Taylor Swift and Lady Gaga. Performing at BBC Maida Vale Studios, the London band delivered a cover of all three artists – with a common theme of “Bad” featuring in all of the songs. After per...
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Think you might know what the most used word is?Slipknot perform live at Download 2019A Slipknot fan has compiled a list of the most commonly-used words found in the band’s lyrics. Read more: Slipknot’s blistering set at Download festival 2019 showed their reign is far from over Reddit user disintegration wrote: “I ran Sli...
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Jack White's been so commonly associated with good-ol'-fashioned rock 'n' roll over the years that it's been easy to overlook the fact that he often works similar to how dance producers do. For starters, there's nothing more explicitly tied to how dance music operates than running your own label to put out releases from yourself…
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With his 1994 single "I Used to Love H.E.R.," Common gave the conscious hip-hop movement one of its anthems. My colleague Collin Robinson once elaborated that the Resurrection track "chided hip-hop artists for moving away from afrocentric and socially aware rhymes to combat gangster rap's quickly growing influence in the mid '90s and consumerism...
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Common: “An aquatic paradise”: Glastonbury Festival unveils new ‘Samula’ stage at The Common
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The new stage has finally been unveiled by organisers Glastonbury crowd at the 2017 festivalA new stage at Glastonbury Festival called ‘Samula’ has been unveiled by organisers. Read More: Check out the full Glastonbury 2019 line-up and stage times here The new stage will feature at The Common, which is located in the south-e...
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