www dot Canibus dot com.
You can find me on the Internet, talkin’ to chicks
That was sweatin’ me off the ‘Music Makes Me High’ remix.
I be talkin’ mad trash, tryin to get ‘em to laugh.
See, if I click and drag long enough I’ll get the ass…
- Canibus, “Making a Name For Ourselves,” from Common’s One Day It’ll All Make Sense, 1998
So I cracked his head with a muthafuckin bottle.
- Common, “Raw (How You Like It),” The Dreamer, The Believer, 2011
- Common, “Sweet,” The Dreamer, The Believer, 2011
And what I loved most she had so much soul.
She was old school, when I was just a shorty
Never knew throughout my life she would be there for me.
- Common, “I Used to Love H.E.R.,” from Resurrection, 1994
- Common, “Resurrection,” Resurrection, 1994
Killing over oil and grease, no weapons of destruction,
How can we follow a leader when this a corrupt one?
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Common, “A Letter to the Law,” from Def Poetry Jam, 2007
Sean Hannity’s latest race-baiting “controversy” stems from the invitation that First Lady Michelle Obama extended to Common for a White House poetry event tonight. Up next, a complementary quote from Nas’ “Sly Fox.”
- Common, “The 6th Sense,” Like Water for Chocolate, 2000
In the ghetto, let love prevail with a story to tell.
My eyes see the glory, and well,
The world waiting for me to yell, “I Have A Dream!
- Common, “A Dream,” from Freedom Writers Soundtrack, 2007
- Common, “The Bizness”, from De La Soul’s Stakes is High, 1996
