![]() After being featured in the Unsigned Hype column of The Source magazine, he debuted as a solo artist in 1992 with the single " Take It EZ", followed by the album Can I Borrow a Dollar?. When C.D.R dissolved by 1991, Lynn began a solo career under the stage name of Common Sense. Lynn began rapping in the late 1980s, while a student at Luther High School South in Chicago, when he, along with two of his friends, formed C.D.R., a rap trio that opened for acts such as N.W.A and Big Daddy Kane. Music career 1987–1996: Career beginnings Lynn attended Florida A&M University for two years under a scholarship and majored in business administration. This left Lynn to be raised by his mother however, his father remained active in his life, and was able to get him a job with the Chicago Bulls as a teenager. ![]() Lynn's parents divorced when he was six years old, resulting in his father moving to Denver, Colorado. He was raised in the Calumet Heights neighborhood. He is the son of educator and former principal of John Hope College Preparatory High School, Mahalia Ann Hines, and former ABA basketball player turned youth counselor Lonnie Lynn. He made his Broadway debut acting in the play Between Riverside and Crazy (2023).Ĭommon was born on March 13, 1972, at the Chicago Osteopathic Hospital in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. He received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics for the song "Letter to the Free" for the Netflix documentary 13th (2017) directed by Ava DuVernay. In television, has also starred as Elam Ferguson in AMC western series Hell on Wheels from 2011 to 2014. ![]() He has also acted in film such as Smokin' Aces (2006), Street Kings (2008), American Gangster (2007), Wanted (2008), Date Night (2010), Just Wright (2010), Happy Feet Two (2011), Run All Night (2015), John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017), and Smallfoot (2018). Lynn won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for his song " Glory" (with John Legend), from Selma (2014) where he co-starred as civil rights leader James Bevel. Both albums were met with critical praise and further discussed social issues in Black America his eleventh album, Black America Again (2016) saw widespread critical acclaim and served as his final release on a major label. ![]() Through the label in a joint venture with Warner Records, he released The Dreamer/The Believer (2011) and through No I.D.'s ARTium Recordings, an imprint of Def Jam Recordings, he released Nobody's Smiling (2014). He released his eighth album, Universal Mind Control (2008) to mixed critical reception before departing GOOD and launching his own label imprint, Think Common Entertainment in 2011. His seventh album, Finding Forever (2007) saw further success and became his first to peak the Billboard 200, while a song from the album, " Southside" (featuring Kanye West) won Lynn's second Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group. He signed with fellow Chicago rapper Kanye West's GOOD Music to release his sixth album Be (2005), which was met with critical and commercial success, also receiving a Grammy Award nomination for Best Rap Album. In 2003, he won a Grammy Award for Best R&B Song for his feature on Erykah Badu's single " Love of My Life (An Ode to Hip-Hop)". Īfter attaining his first major label record deal, he released his fourth and fifth albums, Like Water for Chocolate (2000) and Electric Circus (2002) to continued acclaim despite modest commercial response. He maintained an underground following into the late 1990s, and achieved his first mainstream success through his work with the black music collective, Soulquarians. ![]() He signed with the independent label Relativity Records to release his debut studio album Can I Borrow a Dollar? (1992), and gained further critical acclaim with its follow-ups, Resurrection (1994) and One Day It'll All Make Sense (1997). He has received three Grammy Awards, an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Golden Globe Award. Lonnie Rashid Lynn (born March 13, 1972), known by his stage name Common (formerly known as Common Sense), is an American rapper, actor, and activist from Chicago, Illinois. ![]()
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