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Be is the sixth studio album by American rapper Common.It was released on May 24, 2005, by Geffen Records and GOOD Music.The album is Common's first album under Geffen, following the mediocre performance of 2002's Electric Circus and the July 2003 merger of preceding label MCA Records, which, like Geffen and its sister label Interscope Records, was a division of Universal Music Group.
Lonnie Rashid Lynn [6] [7] [8] (born March 13, 1972), known professionally as Common (formerly known as Common Sense), is an American rapper and actor.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 to release his debut studio album Can I Borrow a Dollar?
The following is a list of songs by Common organized by alphabetical order. The songs on the list are all included in official label-released albums , soundtracks and singles , and may include some white label or other non-label releases.
Common's surroundings are constantly morphing, but maintain a brown and beige color scheme. As a preface to various scenes in which Common fulfills fantasies with women, phrases such as "body of a dancer" and "free love" appear. The end of the video features a snippet of "Faithful", the succeeding track in Be after "Go!".
The video features acting parts from Taraji P. Henson, Bill Duke, Steve Harris and Wood Harris and is directed by Anthony Mandler. It was played mostly on specialist channels such as MTV2. It was nominated as the Video of the Year at the 2006 BET Hip Hop Awards. A shorter video featuring only the musical parts of the mini-movie was also released.
"Stand Up For Something" is a song written by Common and Diane Warren, performed by the former with singer Andra Day. The song was released as a lead single from the soundtrack album of 2017 film Marshall, and at the 90th Academy Awards received a nomination for Best Original Song.
In Common's song "I Used to Love H.E.R.", the rapper partially blamed hip hop's change from pro-black music to street music on its domination by West Coast Gangsta rap.In particular, the line "I wasn't salty: she was with the boys in the hood" alluded to the film Boyz n the Hood (set in South Central, Los Angeles), a movie starring Ice Cube.
Framed as a love letter, it is a confession of Common's love for a woman – specifically, his girlfriend at the time, Erykah Badu (in 2012, Common acknowledged in a video for RapGenius that the song was about her [1]). "The Light" is Common's first single to chart on the Billboard Hot 100, where it peaked at No. 44.