People have really been keeping an eye on Common after his huge success with his performance in the Martin Luther King biopic movie ‘Selma’ and his Oscar/Golden Globe he received from the film. Though Common has been is on his Hollywood film moves he reminds us of how Hip Hop he truly is by naming 10 Ways to save Hip Hop in Rolling Stone Magazine. Hop into the post for the details !!! #IFWT
Common explained how he feels fellow artists can do to keep our culture of Hip Hop alive including being aware of their lyrics and touring more often.
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First of All common has been In this game since 92, that’s over 20 years. Longer then Nas , Jay , Wu Tang and a lot of artists who helped shift the game for the better so trust when he says that he knows what he is talking about. He hasn’t always been in basketball movies with Queen Latifah.
Although he reveals recently that he was once a Ball Boy for the Chicago Bulls in the early 90’s, and Michael Jordan had him forge his autograph for a fan. CLICK HERE to read up on that !!
This Rolling Stone item was originally published over 10 years ago in 2003 for rappers to stop thinking their lyrics don’t have influence on there listeners.
Leading to a point Common Made saying ” Words are Power ”
The Chicago Legend says
“Don’t think you can rap about money and bitches and ho’s and shooting somebody and then make it better by giving ten dollars to somebody in the community. Your words are probably destroying more people than the ten dollars is helping. Your words are affecting the five-year-old riding in the back of their daddy’s car.”
Common also says that in order to Save Hip Hop you need to “make you music look like your life”
“We all didn’t grow up in the ghetto,” he says. “And even if you did, there’s more to ghetto life than just violence and sex and getting money — there’s a lot of beauty in the community aspect of it. That needs to be reflected in the music. Most people I know from the ghetto don’t want to glorify ghetto life — ain’t nobody happy to have to sell dope, and most people don’t wanna talk about killing people and violence. As my father used to say, ‘Even gangster dudes go to church.'”
Common dropped plenty of GEMS in this Rolling Stone article for artists to pick up on and listeners to be aware of and you can read the rest of this article on rolling stone make sure too look out for his official article coming up soon !!
LETS ALL GET TOGETHER AND SAVE HIP HOP
“We Cant Change The World Unless We Change Ourselves ” – Notorious B.I.G
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