Rapper Common is helping out inmates at the Statesville Correctional Center, by paying for a brand new studio for the inmates to use! The “Glory” chart-topper’s goal is to provide those doing time ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --Mixing boards, musical instruments, microphones and sound panels. You wouldn't expect to see all that equipment in a prison. But it's part of a new program for inmates at Stateville ...

On this day in hip-hop history, Common makes his rap debut, Kurupt shows respect to his East and West Coast roots, Pras and Bizzy Bone make a solo go of it, and Mack 10 delivers The Recipe. In 1992, ...

Multi-talented rapper and actor Common has created a new space in a local Chicago prison that allows inmates to get away from the prison cell and into a music studio. The Oscar-, Emmy-, and Grammy ...

Common's 20th anniversary edition of his 2005 album Be includes a studio version of "The Food." Ever since Common included a performance of the track that he and Kanye West did on the Dave Chappelle ...

Award-winning rapper, actor, and activist Common is a hip-hop legend with an illustrious career spanning decades. At 51, he’s been alive for as long as the genre itself, which celebrated 50 years of ...

Chicago rapper Common considers it a good omen that he bumped into Queens rhymer 50 Cent on a recent airplane flight. The rappers are virtual poster children for genres of hip-hop that typically sit ...