What’s Happening to Common Sense?

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I have always been a super huge fan of rapper Common Sense since his very first album, Can I Borrow a Dollar?, but things I have been noticing about him lately are starting to raise some concern.

First, on November 13, 2011, Common posted the following message on his Twitter page:



Really, Common? 6-6-6?!?!

For those of you who don’t know, Hell On Wheels is a new television series which airs on the AMC channel. The show tells the story of post-Civil War America, focusing on a Confederate soldier who sets out to get revenge on the Union soldiers who killed his wife. Common plays the role of Elam Ferguson, a newly emancipated half Black and half White slave.

Now, one thing that peaked my interest was the choice of name for Common’s character. Right off top, I recalled reading it in the Bible, but still wanted to dig a little deeper. When searching for ‘Elam’ as a regular word and not a name, I found the following definition:

Elam was an ancient civilization in what is now southwest Iran.

And when searching for ‘Elam’ as a name, I found this meaning:

The verb (‘alam), meaning to be hidden or concealed. This root comes with the derivation (‘taalumma), meaning hidden thing.

Very interesting, wouldn’t you say? But wait! There’s more!!!

The latest thing to trigger intrigue is the cover artwork for Common’s next album set to drop December 2011, The Dreamer/The Believer:



Why would he hold out this long to sell out now? Or was he already showing his allegiance with Universal Mind Control???



But, hey, THAT’S MY OPINION.

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What’s Happening to Common Sense?

I dont know or not sure if you have answered the question?

Guarocuya............Is that a real nickname or are you just have it as a username ?

I use to have a childhood friend in the Sto, DR. We use to call him Guarito........
So I am curious about your user name.

Guarocuya My real nickname.

I'm from La Capital in the 60's flew Pan American to NYC (w Visa), and grew up in the Heights.
Know ' I mean?

Yes at the time, Pan Am was the only airline that flew from Punta Caucedo to NYC. If I recall correctly, it was not that hard to get a visa, at least not as hard as it is today. In fact during the sixties, Dominicans were highly regarded, because they were honest, hard working industrious people. We still are for the most part except today we also have a good amount of Riff-Raff included in the box. In general Dominicans from that decade were high quality people.

Punta Caucedo to Idlewild Airport was a trip that very few made, especially with a one way ticket.

Visas where only attained after a thorough affidavit was provided to ensure only benevolent self-reliant people were admitted into the country. No free-loaders could hop a plane and then live off the system.
Professionals, skilled workers, and business-people were highly desired; And of course their nuclear families.

My parents got their visa rather quickly, they went to the US consulate in Sto Dgo on a Thursday or Friday and by Monday, the consulate stamped their pass port with a visa. Once they arrived in NY they needed to fly into and make a one day trip into Saint Johns, New Foundland Canada in order to obtain residency papers. That is the way it was done back then and I never really understood why.

The whole process was completed in a year or less. It was a piece of cake.

Actually, that was an alternative means of reaching the U.S., unless you wanted to remain in Montreal or Toronto. What you are referring to is getting a visa 'via' a nueutral country such as Canada. That was very popular when my folks came. Our visas were stamped and awarded in Sto. Do. from the start. Many people in the 60-70's would go and remain in Canada while soliciting a visa for US residency.
Ain't it funny why most people prefer los Nuevaroyes y no the Great White North?


Here's a story --- in the mid 70's I was strolling on St, Catherine St. in Montreal when I happened to see a Salvadorean guy I knew from Boston. I walked up to him and asked for the money he owed me. He was shocked to see me. We both laughed and caught up. He had gone back to his country, but had no visa to return since he had overstayed a tourist visa which he had when he left Boston. So, he came to Canada and was trying to get back in...

Que bueno esta este pais?


I know that this really applied to Borinquen. But, it also applies here and now!

Maya lyrical lashing

By LARRY GETLEN

Last Updated: 1:21 PM, December 18, 2011

Posted: 12:21 AM, December 18, 2011


It might be the most uncommon hip-hop beef ever.

Legendary poet Maya Angelou told The Post she’s horrified that one of her biggest fans, the rapper Common, put her on a song peppered with the “N” word — which she abhors.

The song “The Dreamer,” off the album “The Dreamer, The Believer,” features a poem that Angelou penned and recited at the rapper’s request. It urges people to follow their dreams, with such lines as “From Africa they lay in the bilge of slave ships / And stood half naked on auction blocks /. . . and still they dreamed.”

Common’s lyrics, however, include such lines as “Told my n---a (Kanye West) I’m ’bout to win the Grammys now” and the boast “N---as with no heart, I’m the pacemaker.”



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POETRY PALS: Friends Common and Maya Angelou collaborated on a song littered with the N-word that the famed poet came to regret.


The Pulitzer Prize-nominated poet was petrified when she heard the lyrics.

“I had no idea that Common was using the piece we had done together on (a track) in which he also used the ‘N’ word numerous times,” Angelou said.

Angelou said she never knew Common used the “N” bomb at all, calling it “vulgar and dangerous” to the black community.

“I’m surprised and disappointed. I don’t know why he chose to do that. I had never heard him use that [word] before. I admired him so because he wasn’t singing the line of least resistance.”

Common tried to squash the squabble, insisting that he’s spoken with Angelou about his use of the “N” word — and claiming they have agreed to disagree.

“She knows I do use the word,” he told The Post. “She knows that’s part of me.”

But he admitted he never bothered to tell her he’d be using the word on the track she worked on.

“I told her what ‘The Dreamer’ was about and what I wanted to get across to people,” he says. “I wanted young people to hear this and feel like they could really accomplish their dreams.”

Common’s dreams in the song include living in Miami with “exquisite thick bitches.”

Angelou and Common met several years ago when they recited poetry at the same benefit. Since then, the two have grown tight. He has rapped at her birthday bash, and she once said he could be her son.

Common said the best lesson he has learned from Angelou is to “continue to be true to your voice.”

This is the second time this year that the rapper’s lyrics have gotten him in trouble. The White House was slammed in May for inviting him to a poetry event there because of anti-police lyrics, including “Tell the law my Uzi weighs a ton” and a line about President Bush: “Burn a Bush, ’cause for peace he no push no button.”


Source: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/rapper_bombs_poet_pal_vGpl6qIvAl1judJ7oszEFI#ixzz1gugrbV4r

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