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 ...