Common
Lonnie Rashid Lynn (born March 13, 1972), known by his stage name Common (formerly Common Sense), is an American rapper and actor. He has received three Grammy Awards, an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Golden Globe Award. He debuted in 1992 with the album Can I Borrow a Dollar?, and gained critical acclaim with his 1994 album Resurrection. He maintained an underground following into the late 1990s. He achieved mainstream success through his work with the Soulquarians. His first major-label album Like Water for Chocolate (2000), received commercial success. In 2003, he won the Grammy Award for Best R&B Song for the Erykah Badu single "Love of My Life". His 2005 album Be was also a commercial success and was nominated for Best Rap Album at the 2006 Grammy Awards. Common received his second Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group for "Southside" (featuring Kanye West), from his 2007 album Finding Forever. His best-of album, Thisisme Then: The Best of Common, was released in late 2007. In 2011, Common launched Think Common Entertainment, his own record label imprint, having previously released music under various other labels including Relativity, Geffen, and GOOD Music. Common won the 2015 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song and the Academy Award for Best Original Song, for his song, co-written and performed with John Legend, "Glory" from the 2014 film Selma, in which he co-starred as Civil Rights Movement leader James Bevel. Common's acting career also includes roles in the films Smokin' Aces, Street Kings, American Gangster, Wanted, Terminator Salvation, Date Night, Just Wright, Happy Feet Two, New Year's Eve, Run All Night, Being Charlie, Rex, John Wick: Chapter 2, Smallfoot and Hunter Killer. He also narrated the documentary Bouncing Cats, about one man's efforts to improve the lives of children in Uganda through hip-hop/b-boy culture. He starred as Elam Ferguson on the AMC western television series Hell on Wheels. Description above from the Wikipedia article Common (rapper), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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The Simpsons
1989
The Daily Show
1996
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
Saturday Night Live
1975
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003
Scrubs
2001
The View
1997
Silo
2023
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
The Chi
2018
Hell on Wheels
2011
Keeping Up with the Kardashians
2007
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
MTV Video Music Awards
1984
The Mindy Project
2012
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Girlfriends
2000
Never Have I Ever
2020
American Masters
1986
Tamron Hall
2019
MTV Movie & TV Awards
1992
One on One
2001
Chelsea
2016
Off Camera with Sam Jones
2014
John Wick: Chapter 2
2017
Lip Sync Battle
2015
Nick Cannon Presents: Wild 'N Out
2005
Now You See Me
2013
Ocean's Eight
2018
TRL
1998
Suicide Squad
2016
Hunter Killer
2018
Home Movie: The Princess Bride
2020
Terminator Salvation
2009
The Chris Rock Show
1997
Entertainment Tonight
1981
Wanted
2008
American Gangster
2007
StoryBots: Answer Time
2022
Chappelle's Show
2003
Smallfoot
2018
Run All Night
2015
Movie 43
2013
Ava
2020
Girls Trip
2017
jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy
2022
Mark Twain Prize
1999
Smokin' Aces
2006
Bottomless Brunch at Colman's
2020
Entourage
2015
Street Kings
2008
Date Night
2010
Shut Up and Dribble
2018
The Hate U Give
2018
Happy Feet Two
2011
The Informer
2019
The Kitchen
2019
2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
2021
Selma
2014
Dave Chappelle's Block Party
2005
New Year's Eve
2011
Game Over
2004
Megan Leavey
2017
Wick Is Pain
2025
Breathe
2024
Unity
2015
The Odd Life of Timothy Green
2012
America Divided
2016
Bookmarks: Celebrating Black Voices
2020
I Love the '70s: Volume 2
2006
Fraggle Rock: Rock On!
2020
Barbershop: The Next Cut
2016
The Tale
2018
Just Wright
2010
Black in the 80s
2005
One World: Together at Home
2020
Fool's Paradise
2023
Brown Sugar
2002
Pawn
2013
A Happening of Monumental Proportions
2017
BET Presents Love & Happiness: An Obama Celebration
2016
The Words That Built America
2017
Alice
2022
Activate: The Global Citizen Movement
2019
A GRAMMY Salute to 50 Years of Hip-Hop
2023
Every Secret Thing
2014
All About Nina
2018
Saint Judy
2018
Soul Power: The Legend of the American Basketball Association
2026
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Kanye West: College Dropout [Video Anthology]
2005
Framework
2015
X/Y
2014
Here and Now
2018
Obama
2020
Stretch and Bobbito: Radio That Changed Lives
2015
Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest
2011
Being Charlie
2016
Our Vinyl Weighs a Ton: This Is Stones Throw Records
2013
Evolution of the Black Quarterback
2024
LUV
2013
Chasing Trane
2017
You're Watching Video Music Box
2021
Chris Rock: Road To Live Special
2023
Love Beats Rhymes
2017
Let's Go Crazy: The Grammy Salute to Prince
2020
W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With a Cause
2026
Chamber Check: Evolution of a Fight Scene
2017
Beef
2003
Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap
2012
The Wiz Live!
2015
Diane Warren: Relentless
2025
Live from Detroit: The Concert at Michigan Central
2024
The Notorious B.I.G BET Official presents
2005
Letter to the President
2005
Notorious B.I.G.: Bigger Than Life
2007
Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise
2016
VH1 Hip Hop Honors: All Hail the Queens
2016
Dave Chappelle's Block Party 2
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Boo-Yah: A Portrait of Stuart Scott
2025
Music
2010
Hip-Hop and the White House
2024
Hate to See You Go
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The Price of Protest
2019
Feel Rich: Health Is the New Wealth
2017
Paragraphs I Manifest
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Brave New Voices 2010
2010
Soundz of Spirit
2005
Pete Rock: Soul Survivor
1998
Killing Me Softly with His Songs
2022
A Most Beautiful Thing
2020
The Legacy of J Dilla
2023
Two Trains Runnin'
2016
Bouncing Cats
2010
Between Riverside and Crazy
2023
5 Sides of a Coin
2004
Black America Again
2016
Alicia Keys: Unplugged
2005
Bilal: Live at Glasshaus
2024
Soul Power: The Legend of the American Basketball Association
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Godfathers and Sons
2003
Letter to the Free
2016
Misdirection: The Real Magic
2017
We're Still Here (Now).... A Documentary about nobody
2016