Blog: The Smoking Section

Dear Common, Once upon a time you were our success story. The Chosen One. We as Hip-Hop fans crowned you the under-appreciated king who was too real for the mainstream. We loved you. And it was good. It seems like forever ago that Jay mentioned you on The Black Album , shining light on someone who some of the listeners had never even heard of. At the time, most thought of this as a short-term boost in a career that would be critically acclaimed but widely under-appreciated. Then we watched [...]