Common Speaks On New Video, Working With Just Blaze
Two days after winning the Grammy Award
for Best Rap Performance By A Duo Or Group with producer/label-mate
Kanye West for the song Southside, Common posted a
video journal [click here] on his MySpace
blogt to update fans on his new things,
new ideas, [and] new creations.
Common reveals that his eighth
studio albumand third with Kanye Westwill be entitled The
Believer.
I havent started, but I started mentally, Common writes. Its up to yall to decide if its better than this album or that album, but Im going say its going to be one of my best albums ever. Common writes that along with previous collaborators like West and Neptunes, that he also wants to work with Just Blaze for the LP. The two are currently working on a remake of Commons trademark song The Light for a project being released by Cornerstone Promotions. While scarce on details, Common also writes that hes got several movie projects coming up. You dont want to talk about stuff till its etched in stone and everything is there, he says, because you be sayin stuff and then it dont happen, or you just keep the energy close till its time.
He did, however, namedrop two other films hes working on, Wanted and The Night Watch Man. According to IMDB, Wanted co-stars Morgan Freeman and Angelina Jolie. The site lists the new title for the latter film as Street Kings, and has Keanu Reeves and Forest Whitaker as headliners. DX initially confirmed that Common was set to play superhero Green Lantern in Justice League of America, though MTV also reported that the film is on indefinite hold due to the Writers Guild strike in Hollywood.
Common also said that hes working on more childrens books, and namedropped the Common Ground Foundation. Common has two childrens books under his belt so far, Mirror and Me and I Like You But I Love Me; the second was nominated for an NAACP Image Award last year. His website has another, M.E. Mixed Emotions, with impending release. The Common Ground Foundation, is dedicated to the empowerment and development of urban youth in the United States through the arts and education.
I havent started, but I started mentally, Common writes. Its up to yall to decide if its better than this album or that album, but Im going say its going to be one of my best albums ever. Common writes that along with previous collaborators like West and Neptunes, that he also wants to work with Just Blaze for the LP. The two are currently working on a remake of Commons trademark song The Light for a project being released by Cornerstone Promotions. While scarce on details, Common also writes that hes got several movie projects coming up. You dont want to talk about stuff till its etched in stone and everything is there, he says, because you be sayin stuff and then it dont happen, or you just keep the energy close till its time.
He did, however, namedrop two other films hes working on, Wanted and The Night Watch Man. According to IMDB, Wanted co-stars Morgan Freeman and Angelina Jolie. The site lists the new title for the latter film as Street Kings, and has Keanu Reeves and Forest Whitaker as headliners. DX initially confirmed that Common was set to play superhero Green Lantern in Justice League of America, though MTV also reported that the film is on indefinite hold due to the Writers Guild strike in Hollywood.
Common also said that hes working on more childrens books, and namedropped the Common Ground Foundation. Common has two childrens books under his belt so far, Mirror and Me and I Like You But I Love Me; the second was nominated for an NAACP Image Award last year. His website has another, M.E. Mixed Emotions, with impending release. The Common Ground Foundation, is dedicated to the empowerment and development of urban youth in the United States through the arts and education.
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