• Common's Growing Pains

    A young Lonnie Rashid Lynn Jr. got a career-launching co-sign from the Source magazine in 1991 and burst onto the hip-hop scene a year later with Can I Borrow A Dollar. Barely out of high school, the Chicago rapper, who went by the name Common Sense, romped through a collection of squeaky-voiced, fast-rapped pop-culture references…

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