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Common: I Used To Love Him

How come I can't get past the sneaky feeling that Common is a tool? The feel-good, conscious-style Chicago rapper makes truly fresh music, he reps causes like animal rights, and he's an Obama supporter. He's even speaking out with a message of love to defend Obama's controversial pastor Jeremiah Wright [BV Buzz]! I can get with that. So what's the problem? Oh! I know what it is. He rhymed in a fucking GAP ad. Then there was that fucking Lincoln Navigator ad. And the fucking Smirnoff ads. And now he's going to be a gunslinging tough guy in a fucking Keanu Reeves movie? Yes, I think I've put my finger on it. I never really liked his stupid outfits either, honestly. But then again, I'm a hater. Trailer for Street Kings—with Common blasting away like a tool—after the jump. More »

5:14 PM on Mon Mar 24 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
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Latest by asketchymess: I gotta say, in the Erykah Badu dating trajectory: Dr. Dre > Andre 3000 > Common. more »

This pie chart of Anthony Tommasini's Times review of the Met's new production of Prokofiev's War and Peace really makes the review look more awesome than it actually is. And the production too probably, though we can't really speak to that. [parterre box]

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