Common? Kendrick Lamar? Drake? Sounds like the Sundance Film Festival is turning into a miniature South By Southwest minus all the extremely drunk people and indy rappers shoving their mixtapes into your hands. And if that's the case count me all the way in for next years festival. See more...
Has Common dropped “soft” Hip-Hop? The exact type of shit he’s criticizing Drake for? DUH! Has Common (and not to mention his comrades like Mos Def, Kanye, 3 Stacks and others) ever sung on a track about some emotional shit? Obviously! See more...
Just when you thought the Common/Drake beef was over and it was safe to leave your homes we've been hit with yet another diss record. This time Common added his own verse to the Rick Ross track "Stay Schemin." I think the funniest part about the "Stay Schemin Remix" is the fact that not only did Common rap on a song that Drake was featured on but he also left Drake's verse on his remix of the song. Listen and download...
To say that Common can hold his own would be a tremendous understatement so of course the original version of "Ghetto Dreams" which features three verses from Common instead of a verse from Nas is hella dope. I'm glad that Common went with the version featuring Nas for the album, but I'm not mad at this version at all and it still features Nas on the hook. Listen and download...
Today Common released his ninth studio album album "The Dreamer / The Believer", and to celebrate RefinedHype's taking a look back at the legendary Chicago emcee's best work, picking one track off each project. It's not easy to distill almost two decades of dopeness into one Best Of list, but that's why I get paid the big bucks.
While you might catch a few rappers breaking down a mere track or two off of their latest projects, Common is taking things a bit further by releasing individual video breakdowns of all of the songs on his new album "The Dreamer, The Believer." From watching video of the first two breakdowns you can really see how passionate Common is about this latest album. See more...
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