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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.
"Darling Be Home Soon" is a song written by John Sebastian of the Lovin' Spoonful for the soundtrack of the 1966 Francis Ford Coppola film You're a Big Boy Now. It appeared on the Lovin' Spoonful's 1967 soundtrack album You're a Big Boy Now .
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.
Common pledged to stop using anti-gay lyrics in his music. [72] [73] Common is the founder of the Common Ground Foundation, [74] [75] a non-profit that seeks to empower underprivileged youth to be contributing citizens and strong leaders in the world. The foundation includes programs dedicated to leadership development & empowerment ...
"Testify" is the fourth single from rapper Common's 2005 album Be. Clocking in at just above two and a half minutes, it is the second shortest track on Be (after the album's intro). It is produced by Kanye West , whose beat heavily utilizes vocal samples from "Innocent Til Proven Guilty" by Honey Cone .
[17] [18] Unterberger writes that, when paired with the song's bright melody and lyrics, the arrangement morphs the number into a pop song. [16] The author James E. Perone also characterizes it as pop music, [19] and the critic Paul Nelson considers it, alongside the Spoonful's other singles, as being representative of folk rock. [20]
The song's lyrics deal with street corners in poor neighborhoods. The song's beat contains samples from "You Make the Sun Shine" by The Temprees and "What It Is" by The Temptations. Because of the song's gritty sound, some fans considered it to be a return to Common's Resurrection days. [1] A music video directed by Kanye West was made for "The ...
"Come Home Soon" is a song recorded by American country music group SHeDAISY. It was released on July 12, 2004, as the second single from fourth studio album Sweet Right Here (2004). The song was written by member Kristyn Osborn with John Shanks , and was produced by Dann Huff and SHeDAISY. [ 1 ]