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Common speaks about hip-hop
Media Outrage —
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Common, who happens to be one of the most positive rappers in the game, spoke to CNN about the future of hip-hop.
Via CNN:
Obama “is going to change hip-hop for the better,” predicted the rapper, whose eighth album, “Universal Mind Control” (G.O.O.D. Music/Geffen), hits shelves Tuesday.
“I really do believe we as hip-hop artists pick up what’s going on in the world and try to reflect that,” he told CNN, outlining his belief that mainstream as well as ...
Common Predicts That Obama Will Change Hip-Hop Music Prejudices
Hip Hop Roll —
... Barack Obama is going to change the way people will perceive rap/hip-hop music. Rappers therefore need to be prepared and embrace a necessary change in their target audiences. Common and Kanye West are good examples of rap artist making their way to a more universally acceptable rhythms. Kanye’s new album doesn’t even sound like rap, and Common’s "Universal Mind Control" takes hip-hop to a different level.
Read or listen to Common’s Interview on CNN.com
Should hip-hop change to embrace the ...
CNN: RAPPER COMMON: OBAMA WILL CHANGE HIP-HOP'S ATTITUDE
Kanye's Blog —
(CNN) -- The rapper Common wants to take hip-hop in a new direction, he says, and he has an unsuspecting ally -- President-elect Barack Obama. Via: Cnn Click HERE for the full story...
Common Doesn't Listen To Hip Hop
SOULBOUNCE.COM —
Back in December and after Barack Obama's presidential win, Common declared that Obama was "going to change hip-hop for the better." These days, Hip Hop's favorite backpacker turned Hollywood bit-part actor is now saying that the "Obama effect" has resulted in not as much "gangsta talk" as well as a decrease in lyrics on drugs, violence, and the disrespecting of women. Let's examine why this is simply just not true. ...
