Rapper Common has been quietly doing the intelligent rap thing for years now, since 1992's "Can I Borrow a Dollar?" His breakout masterpiece "Like Water For Chocolate" was both a commercial and critical success and he has been churning out pretty decent-selling music every few years or so. He has been keeping himself pretty visible in the hip-hop community by pairing himself with Kanye West and then joining Kanye's G.O.O.D. Music record label.
It has come as quite a surprise that he keeps getting pretty great roles in movies these days. You never know where he is going to pop up next. First he appeared in "American Gangster" with Denzel Washington, and then "Wanted" alongside Anjelina Jolie and Morgan Freeman. We then saw him in "Smokin' Aces" and "Terminator Salvation" with Christian Bale. He doesn't usually have a lot of lines, but the roles seem to keep getting better and better and alongside A-List actors. This year he will appear as the Green Hornet in the upcoming "Justice League" movie and he is the lead in a new romantic comedy with Queen Latifah and Paula Patton called "Just Wright." Is Common really deserving of all these great roles or is he just being thrown into movies to snap up his urban hip-hop audience? I guess time will tell.
The video below is a personal favorite (from when he was dating Erykah Badu and started wearing knit beanie caps and eating vegetarian food like Erykah.)
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