"The revolution will not be televised The revolution is here"
Lonnie Rashid Lynn, known professionally as Common, is an American rapper, actor and activist. The recipient of three Grammy Awards, an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Golden Globe Award, he signed with the independent label Relativity Records at the age of 20. The label released his first three studio albums: Can I Borrow a Dollar? (1992), Resurrection (1994) and One Day It'll All Ma
"But once the man got you well he altered the native Told her if she got an image and a gimmick That she could make money, and she did it like a dummy Now I see her in commercials, shes universal She used to only swing it with the inner-city circle Now she be in the burbs lickin rock and dressin hip And on some dumb shit"
Common (rapper)"Granted we known each other for some time but it dont take a whole day to recognize sunshine"
Common (rapper)"Im the truth, across the table from corporate lies Immortilized by the realness I bring to it If revolution had a movie Id be theme music My music, you can either fight, fuck, or dream to it"
Common (rapper)"The chosen one from the land of the frozen sun, where drunk nights get remembered more than sober ones"
Common (rapper)"Cause federal and state was built for a black fate Her emptiness was filled with beatings and court dates They fabricated cases, hoping one would stick And said she robbed places that didnt exist In the midst of threats on her life and being caged with Aryan whites Through dark halls of hate she carried the light"
Common (rapper)"My style is too developed to be arrested Its the freestyle, so now its out on parole They tried to hold my soul in a holding cell so I would sell but I bonded with a break and had enough to make bail"
Common (rapper)