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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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For at least the past 20 years, real lyric heads have known that the Mountain Goats’ John Darnielle and the the Hold Steady’s Craig Finn are two of the best writers — arguably the two best writers — operating in the indie rock sphere. Darnielle and Finn have plenty more in common, too. They’re bo...
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Common: "When you get communities with a common enemy, you’re in this together": why heavy metal loves Dungeons & Dragons
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From a love of fantasy to being targeted in the Satanic Panic, all the way to Stranger Things, heavy metal and Dungeons & Dragons have a shared history that goes back decades
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Fucked Up: Album Of The Week: Fucked Up One Day
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Fucked Up have spent two decades reimagining the rock band as a kind of research laboratory. No appreciation of the Toronto collective is complete without a litany of the experiments they’ve undertaken, and I won’t break with tradition here: Fucked Up have been a brawny, elemental hardcore band, as heard on their early 7&...
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Common: Arkane’s ‘Redfall’ apparently has more in common with ‘Far Cry’ than ‘Left 4 Dead’
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"Some of 'Redfall''s most powerful moments come from wandering around"The post Arkane’s ‘Redfall’ apparently has more in common with ‘Far Cry’ than ‘Left 4 Dead’ appeared first on NME.
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Common: "Have we got anything in common with Iron Maiden? I hope not" - watch peak Axl Rose slyly diss Maiden and Kiss in this cheeky 1988 interview
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Axl Rose certainly wasn't shy of sharing his opinion on fellow rock and metal heavyweights back in the day
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