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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. Next to the song titles is the album, soundtrack or single on which it appears.
The discography of Common, an American rapper, consists of fourteen studio albums, one collaborative album, one extended play, two compilation albums, forty-nine singles (including fifteen as a featured artist) and twenty-one music videos. It also contains the list of Common songs. Common sold more than 2.8 million albums in the United States.
This album saw Common exploring themes (musically and lyrically), which were uncommon for a hip-hop record, as he does on the song "Time Travelin' (A Tribute To Fela)"; a homage to Nigerian music legend, and political activist Fela Kuti. The most popular single from the album "The Light" was nominated for a Grammy Award.
Duke University professor Mark Anthony Neal considers it to be Common's best single ever. [8] Andrea Duncan-Mao of XXL describes it as a "bittersweet ode to hip-hop" and a "classic" track. [9] Pitchfork's Ryan Dombal considers it to be a "classic hip-hop parable". [10] In 2008, the song was ranked number 69 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of Hip Hop.
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.
Hot Rap Songs is a record chart published by the music industry magazine Billboard which ranks the most popular hip hop songs in the United States. With hip hop having greatly increased in mainstream popularity in the late 1980s, Billboard introduced the chart in their March 11, 1989 issue under the name Hot Rap Singles.
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