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The following is a list of songs by Common organized by alphabetical order. The songs on the list are all included in official label-released albums, soundtracks and singles, and may include some white label or other non-label releases. Next to the song titles is the album, soundtrack or single on which it appears.
The discography of Common, an American rapper, consists of fourteen studio albums, one collaborative album, one extended play, two compilation albums, forty-nine singles (including fifteen as a featured artist) and twenty-one music videos. It also contains the list of Common songs. Common sold more than 2.8 million albums in the United States.
Many blues songs were developed in American folk music traditions and individual songwriters are sometimes unidentified. [1] Blues historian Gerard Herzhaft noted: In the case of very old blues songs, there is the constant recourse to oral tradition that conveyed the tune and even the song itself while at the same time evolving for several decades.
Duke University professor Mark Anthony Neal considers it to be Common's best single ever. [8] Andrea Duncan-Mao of XXL describes it as a "bittersweet ode to hip-hop" and a "classic" track. [9] Pitchfork's Ryan Dombal considers it to be a "classic hip-hop parable". [10] In 2008, the song was ranked number 69 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of Hip Hop.
Pages in category "Songs written by Common (rapper)" The following 37 pages are in this category, out of 37 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
Be is the sixth studio album by American rapper Common.It was released on May 24, 2005, by Geffen Records and GOOD Music.The album is Common's first album under Geffen, following the mediocre performance of 2002's Electric Circus and the July 2003 merger of preceding label MCA Records, which, like Geffen and its sister label Interscope Records, was a division of Universal Music Group.
Framed as a love letter, it is a confession of Common's love for a woman – specifically, his girlfriend at the time, Erykah Badu (in 2012, Common acknowledged in a video for RapGenius that the song was about her [1]). "The Light" is Common's first single to chart on the Billboard Hot 100, where it peaked at No. 44.
These are lists of songs.In music, a song is a musical composition for a voice or voices, performed by singing or alongside musical instruments. A choral or vocal song may be accompanied by musical instruments, or it may be unaccompanied, as in the case of a cappella songs.