Common is a Grammy-winning Chicago-based rapper and actor and former member of Soulquarians.
Solo albums include the 1992 debut "Can I Borrow a Dollar?", "Resurrection" (1994), "One Day It'll All Make Sense" (1997), "Like Water for Chocolate" (2000), "Electric Circus" (2002), "Be" (2005), "Finding Forever" (2007), "Universal Mind Control" (2008), "The Dreamer/The Believer" (2011), "Nobody's Smiling" (2014), plus 2016's: "Black America Again".
In 2019, he published the book: "Let Love Have the Last Word: A Memoir".