Common

Common: Camden Jazz Café, London

Live Review by Dele Fadele, New Musical Express, 13 June 1998

OLD FEUDS die hard. While Common takes great pains to point out his argument with Ice Cube has been settled, it's still with some relish ...

Common: Shepherd's Bush Empire, London

Live Review by Stevie Chick, New Musical Express, 13 January 2001

HEADY ON A diet of wigga-impressing gangsta-rap and wall-to-wall Eminem, some critics have a tendency to write off Chicago's master of the 'conscious' rhyme as ...

Against The Grain: Common

Interview by Miles Marshall Lewis, Source, The, March 2003

EIGHT DAYS BEFORE Jimi Hendrix's sixtieth birthday, Common sits comfortably in the guitar god's apartment sipping Poland Spring. ...

Common: Universal Mind Control (Island)

Review by Andy Gill, Independent, The, 5 December 2008

APART FROM HIS recent shift into movies, Common seems to be approaching his hip-hop career in a perversely roundabout manner. ...