A Guy Walks Into...

July, 2005

Fanfare for the Common manThere's a tendency among music heads to think some bands or artists are just too good for the mainstream and certainly too good for the pop charts. Chicago MC Common is about to boot that notion out the window. His new album, Be (Geffen), is an instant classic, and it has all the cerebral undertones--he'd rather talk about injustice than guns and bling--that have characterized his work for the past decade. His friend Kanye West produces most of the tunes, which weave hi...