Common

Released: February 10, 2017

Featuring: Black Thought

Songwriter: Black Thought Common

Producer: The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

[Verse 1: Common]
Common sense right now I'm like the sinner
Mix me up, y'all you can put me in the blender
Understanding style this is the style I make
Put me in the blender and I end up like a shake
A protein one yo, yo I get it done
Questlove on the drums
Yo, yo I gotta run with a different type of style, yo a different type of flow
I'm from Chicago, yo I got the snowplow
Snowplow and you know that's not soul glo
Common sense sometimes I go solo
It's like this common sense I'm comin' down
This is what I do, yo I hold down the fort yo
This is what I'm comin' to yo, it's just me and you
Shout out to my man named Keanu
And we come through yo, y'all know I fix
Y'all know Keanu for what the matrix

[Verse 2: Black Thought]
Yeah, let me put this brick to mortar
Three words in that particular order
Ain't no two cents I'ma give you a quarter
Com had to take from the butcher's daughter
Had a bottle of water, I drank it
I'm ice cold with it, get me a blanket
Now I'm saying hold up, I'm on the thanks tip
Writing thank you notes just like James and Frank did
Hold up, yo, bring the style back
Just like you got hijacked
On cloud nine with it, girls reachin' they climax
I'm larger than life, I'm like the imax
The baddest rapper she's heard of
Matter fact I take it three further
Cheeseburger, cheeseburger, cheeseburger

[Verse 3: Common]
Common sense yo I'm with the roots crew
Hip-hop, hip-hopping like a kangaroo
What can I do yo, I can't hold back
Call me kangaroo jack or kangaroo black
Black thought yo, we all sorta driving
Understand Com Sense I'm always soul surviving
Coming clean I don't even need the green
I'm in the green you see me in the limousine
And we be on the team
Yo, I got this sheen like my man Questlove with the afro
Sometimes I battle sometimes I straddle formality
Common Sense I'm the realest in virtual reality
Comin' real with this type of style from the Stoney Isle
Only child, yo I'm with Jimmy Fal'
Holdin' down the fort
Yo it's like a sport
I'm down with The Roots crew and Black Thought

Lonnie Rashid Lynn, Jr. (born March 13, 1972), better known by his stage name Common (previously Common Sense), is a Grammy and Oscar-winning rapper and actor from Chicago, Illinois. Common’s inspired mix of poetic flow and hip-hop soul has helped him earn his status as one of the most respected rappers in the game.

After being a ball boy for his hometown Chicago Bulls as a teen and attending Florida A&M University for business administration, Common Sense kicked in and he left school to become a rapper. He gained national attention after being featured in the Unsigned Hype column of The Source magazine in 1991. He released his debut album Can I Borrow a Dollar? through Relativity Records in 1992, followed by his breakthrough second album Resurrection in 1994, which features his hip-hop classic single “I Used To Love H.E.R.”

As his career began to take off, he was sued by the music group Common Sense over the name, leading Common to drop the “Sense” and allude to the change in the title of his third album, One Day It’ll All Make Sense (1997). He has released several critically acclaimed albums, including Like Water For Chocolate (2000), which features his J Dilla-produced hit single “The Light”, and Be (2005), which was released under fellow Chicago musician Kanye West’s G.O.O.D. Music imprint. He also joined musicians Karriem Riggins and Robert Glasper to form the group August Greene, and the trio released their self-titled album in 2018.

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