Rapper Common is helping out inmates at the Statesville Correctional Center, by paying for a brand new studio for the inmates to use! The “Glory” chart-topper’s goal is to provide those doing time ...

On this day in Hip Hop history, Chicago rap icon Common released his fifth studio album Electric Circus. This album may have not been Common’s most commercially successful release, selling under ...

Common's 20th anniversary edition of his 2005 album Be includes a studio version of "The Food." Ever since Common included a performance of the track that he and Kanye West did on the Dave Chappelle ...

On the album's 20th anniversary, it's much easier to recognize Be as a crucial intersection record — not simply for Common, on his way to becoming rap's hokey, well-intentioned uncle, but for hip-hop ...