BONUS: Common On Acting Future, Hip Hop 50, 'Silo' + Spits 'I Used To Love H.E.R.' LIVE!
Ebro in the Morning Podcast
HOT 97
4.4 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Artist & Actor Common sits down with Ebro in the Morning surrounding his music, acting, and legacy. He started the conversation by discussing the decision to drop his original name of "Common Sense" to just "Common" and the importance building you name through the years. Common also discusses his acting career and his role of Sims on the Apple+ hit show 'Silo' and how excited he is to have had an impact on fans of the show. Before leaving, he discusses the celebration of 50 years of Hip Hop, spoke about an unreleased version of 'Bitch In Yoo' produced by Havoc, and performs 'I Used To Love H.E.R.' LIVE while discussing the influence of that song.
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| 0:00.0 | Laura Styles here, check out season 2 of Summer Jam through the years, available on all podcast platforms. |
| 0:06.9 | Get the behind-the-scenes stories from hip-hop's biggest concert, listen to hip-hop history on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. |
| 0:30.0 | So much to me, always going to see all our favorite artists, everybody on that big Summer Jam stage. |
| 0:36.3 | Do you never know what you might see at Summer Jam? |
| 0:44.0 | It's April in the morning with Laura Styles and Rosenberg. |
| 0:46.9 | For legend in the room, his name is Comic Sense. |
| 0:48.9 | That's right. |
| 0:49.4 | For Comic, as he's known now, because he's an actor. |
| 0:52.8 | He was like 20 years ago. |
| 0:54.5 | I know, fucking right. |
| 0:56.2 | How long ago did you, how long ago did you lose sense? |
| 0:59.2 | 25 years ago? |
| 1:00.4 | Yeah, that was 95, man. |
| 1:03.0 | That was tough in my life too, Rick. |
| 1:04.6 | Wow. |
| 1:05.3 | Because when you choose a name, especially in hip-hop, you like, look, I'm Comic Sense. |
| 1:10.6 | And then people started knowing me, like, it took time for people to get to know. |
| 1:15.1 | Coming from Chicago, it took time for me to get known by anybody. |
| 1:18.9 | So, as soon as I started getting known, I was the album resurrection. |
| 1:21.9 | I used to love Comic Sense. |
| 1:23.6 | People was giving me a little love, then a group had the same name and they straight |
| 1:28.4 | was like, they busted a lawsuit real quick, quick, quick. |
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