Artist:Common f/Mary J. Blige
Song:Come Close
Album:Go!: Common Classics
Lonnie Rashid Lynn is the rapper known as Common. He started out in the 90s and had success in the 00s mostly on the R&B and rap charts. He never crossed over to pop in a big way. He's still around but he is concentrating on film and TV. He was born Mar. 13, 1972 in Chicago. His father was ABA basketball player Lonnie Lynn. After his parents divorced, he was raised by his mom. Lynn attended Florida A&M University on a scholarship majoring in business administration. After two years, Lynn moved back to Chicago and started a rap group with his high school friends. After they split up, Lynn went solo as Common Sense. After he was featured in the Unsigned Hype column of Source Magazine, Lynn released two albums on Relativity Records. They were best known for guitarist Joe Satriani. His albums got enough critical acclaim that after three albums on Relativity, Lynn signed with MCA Records for the 2000 album Like Water for Chocolate. That album was certified Gold. And the single The Light reached #12 on the R&B Singles chart and #33 on the Billboard Hot 100. That would turn out to be his biggest hit single. Come Close is from the 2002 album Electric Circus. It reached #21 on the R&B Singles chart. Though most of that album was produced by The Roots, Come Close was written and produced by Pharrell Williams, Chad Hugo and The Neptunes. Lynn was moved to Geffen for the 2005 album Be. It sold even better than the previous two albums. But there were no hit singles. Lynn faded after that. Geffen released this comp when Lynn left the label in 2010. Since then he has recorded for Warner Bros., DefJam and he currently records for Concord's Loma Vista label. Lynn has a new album out called A Beautiful Revolution Part 2. In recent years he has gotten into films and TV as an actor and producer. He was a regular on the AMC series Hell on Wheels and he appeared in the 2014 film Selma. He also has a production deal with Amazon and the doll company American Girl that has already yielded one film. My guess his Lynn will do less rapping and more films and TV. Here's the video for Come Close by Common featuring Mary J. Blige.
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