Wise guys

Chicago MC and Bronx beatmaster team up for inspired mature rap LP. By Stevie Chick.

Common & Pete Rock The Auditorium Vol. 1 LOMA VISTA. CD/DL/LP FOR CAREER LONGEVITY, productivity and consistency alone, few in hip-hop can match Lonnie Rashid Lynn, AKA Common. In the early ’90s, as the genre was engulfed by bloody East Coast/West Coast beefs, he rose from the Midwest as Chicago’s conscious-rap standard bearer. He’s played many roles – activist, lover man, eclectic soulquarian, guardian of hip-hop’s integrity – always bringing a humble ‘Everyman’ wisdom to bear. His fifteenth LP finds the 52-year-old a hip-hop elder, a concept unthinkable when he first picked up the mike – when rappers’ careers were all-too-easily snuffed out by the withering of a trend or the pulling of a trigger. But now over half-a-century old, rap is no longer the sole preserve of hip young…

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MOJO (Digital) - 1 Issue, September 2024

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