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When and why did Common drop the “Sense”? I saw him on some [BRAND NAME DELETED] car commercial the other day with the words “artist/activist” underneath.







6 Reader Responses

  1. carlos Says:
    December 2nd, 2007 at 6:45 am

    Here is my favorite telling of the incident:

    Gay ass, no name ska band from California who sued an MC of that same name over copyright infringement.

    Everyone knows who Common Sense the rapper is, but no one can remember who Common Sense the ska band was.

    Serves em fucking right. Still, Common is an activist about as much as 50 is a rapper.

    Ha! They money is never where they mouth is. I is ever waiting for the show to be bumrushed…

    Don’t make me do it my damn self!

  2. James Russell Says:
    December 2nd, 2007 at 6:50 am

    You mean the rapper? I’ve never known him to be called anything except just Common. Although, to be sure, my knowledge of hip-hop artists is second-rate at best, so maybe he was Common Sense at some point. Common Sense actually makes more sense as a name, too.

  3. Tim Boucher Says:
    December 2nd, 2007 at 2:08 pm

    I just don’t see how he could sit there all damned smiling in this corny ass car commercial and then have the living gall to call himself an artist/activist in the same breath. He’s clearly out of his senses.

  4. carlos Says:
    December 3rd, 2007 at 3:30 am

    Yeah happens to the best of em. Ice T playin a fucking cop on TV? Lord have mercy.

    But really, what is an ‘activist’ anyways? I reckon (unless they helping homeless people turn abandoned lots into vege gardens or some shit) the term is little more than a badge that projects some kind of countercultual ‘cool $$$ignal’ and also lets the very same culture know exactly where you are at all times, na’mean?

    A pigeon hole for damn pigeons.

    As for ‘artist’ that’s a whole nother box o wine…

  5. Rob Says:
    December 3rd, 2007 at 8:18 am

    He’s been just “Common” since, like, 95 or 96.

    As far as activism, he’s been pretty involved in PETA and AIDS Awareness for a while now…

  6. Tim Boucher Says:
    December 3rd, 2007 at 9:49 am

    unless they helping homeless people turn abandoned lots into vege gardens or some shit

    You know, that strikes me as *real* activism



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