Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down Podcast.

My thanks is always for clicking, listening along.

I've got a great one for you today with one of my very favorite people to talk to.

He is Grammy, Emmy, an Oscar-winning hip-hop star, actor and activist, Common, one of the

smartest and most thoughtful guys that I ever get the chance to sit and spend some time

with.

And now, perhaps reaching for the elusive Egot with his incredible performance that has

people potentially maybe talking about a Tony nomination in the play between Riverside

and Crazy.

It's a Pulitzer Prize-winning play in it, Common plays Junior, the son of Walter who goes

by pops, you might hear Common refer to him as pops.

He has just been released from prison, has moved back into a rent stabilized apartment in

New York City with his father and all the dynamics that come with this.

It ties in to Common's life and his activism.

He spends so much of his time when he's not entertaining people, working with people who

are incarcerated, trying to help them rehabilitate, trying to improve their experience so we get

better citizens on the outside.

He's got a group called Imagine Justice, another one called Common Ground.

He's always working, always thinking about social justice.

You remember, he won the Academy Award along with John Legend for the song Glory for a

film he also acted in Selma that was in 2014.

You know, his music came up in the 90s, he's been around for about 30 years came up from

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