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    Lonnie Rashid Lynn , Common Sense, Коммон, Lonnie Rashid Lynn, Jr.

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Lonnie Rashid Lynn (born March 13, 1972), known by his stage name Common (formerly Common Sense), is an American rapper and actor. He has received three Grammy Awards, an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Golden Globe Award. He debuted in 1992 with the album Can I Borrow a Dollar?, and gained critical acclaim with his 1994 album Resurrection. He maintained an underground following into the late 1990s. He achieved mainstream success through his work with the Soulquarians. His first major-label album Like Water for Chocolate (2000), received commercial success. In 2003, he won the Grammy Award for Best R&B Song for the Erykah Badu single "Love of My Life". His 2005 album Be was also a commercial success and was nominated for Best Rap Album at the 2006 Grammy Awards. Common received his second Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group for "Southside" (featuring Kanye West), from his 2007 album Finding Forever. His best-of album, Thisisme Then: The Best of Common, was released in late 2007. In 2011, Common launched Think Common Entertainment, his own record label imprint, having previously released music under various other labels including Relativity, Geffen, and GOOD Music. Common won the 2015 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song and the Academy Award for Best Original Song, for his song, co-written and performed with John Legend, "Glory" from the 2014 film Selma, in which he co-starred as Civil Rights Movement leader James Bevel. Common's acting career also includes roles in the films Smokin' Aces, Street Kings, American Gangster, Wanted, Terminator Salvation, Date Night, Just Wright, Happy Feet Two, New Year's Eve, Run All Night, Being Charlie, Rex, John Wick: Chapter 2, Smallfoot and Hunter Killer. He also narrated the documentary Bouncing Cats, about one man's efforts to improve the lives of children in Uganda through hip-hop/b-boy culture. He starred as Elam Ferguson on the AMC western television series Hell on Wheels. Description above from the Wikipedia article Common (rapper), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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  • wc Gender: Male
  • calendar_month Birth Date: 1972-03-13
  • event Death Date Unknown
  • school Known for: Acting
  • star Popularity: 12
  • info Birth Place Chicago, Illinois, USA
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6.8

Dave Chappelle's Block Party

2005-09-12

6.1

Terminator Salvation

2009-05-20

6.7

Street Kings

2008-04-10

4.5

Fool's Paradise

2023-05-12

7.6

American Gangster

2007-11-02

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Between Riverside and Crazy

2023-01-31

6.5

Smokin' Aces

2006-12-09

6.6

Wanted

2008-06-19

1

Kanye West: College Dropout [Video Anthology]

2005-03-22

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Chris Rock: Road To Live Special

2023-03-04

6.1

Date Night

2010-04-08

6.6

Just Wright

2010-05-14

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2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony

2021-11-20

6.4

You're Watching Video Music Box

2021-12-03

6.1

Happy Feet Two

2011-11-17

6.3

Beef

2003-08-03

7.2

Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest

2011-07-08

7

The Odd Life of Timothy Green

2012-08-15

5.8

LUV

2013-01-18

7.4

Now You See Me

2013-05-29

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The Legacy of J Dilla

2023-04-07

4.6

Movie 43

2013-01-24

8.7

The Notorious B.I.G BET Official presents

2005-01-01

5.6

Pawn

2013-04-23

8.4

Chamber Check: Evolution of a Fight Scene

2017-06-13

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Bouncing Cats

2010-04-29

6.4

Run All Night

2015-03-11

10

Seven Friends: George Miller’s Justice League

7

Our Vinyl Weighs a Ton: This Is Stones Throw Records

2013-06-21

6.6

Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap

2012-06-15

4.5

X/Y

2014-04-19

5.2

Breathe

2024-04-04

7.4

Selma

2014-12-25

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5 Sides of a Coin

2004-11-12

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Diane Warren: Relentless

2024-03-12

5

Killing Me Softly with His Songs

2022-11-10

10

A GRAMMY Salute To 50 Years Of Hip-Hop

2023-12-10

6.3

Barbershop: The Next Cut

2016-04-15

6.2

Every Secret Thing

2014-04-20

6

Suicide Squad

2016-08-03

6.3

Entourage

2015-06-03

7.5

Unity

2015-08-12

7.2

The Wiz Live!

2015-12-03

6.2

Being Charlie

2015-09-14

8

Stretch and Bobbito: Radio That Changed Lives

2015-10-01

6

Hip-Hop and the White House

2024-04-22

5.7

Love Beats Rhymes

2017-12-01

7.4

John Wick: Chapter 2

2017-02-08

7.2

Two Trains Runnin'

2016-04-08

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Live From Detroit: The Concert at Michigan Central

2024-06-09

6.9

Hunter Killer

2018-10-19

5.9

New Year's Eve

2011-12-08

7.3

Megan Leavey

2017-06-09

5.6

A Happening of Monumental Proportions

2017-05-05

7.9

Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise

2016-10-14

7.3

Chasing Trane

2017-04-14

0

Misdirection: The Real Magic

2017-06-13

6.6

The Informer

2019-08-30

6.9

Girls Trip

2017-07-21

6

The Words That Built America

2017-07-04

6.8

Brown Sugar

2002-10-05

6.3

Feel Rich: Health Is the New Wealth

2017-05-23

6

All About Nina

2018-09-28

7.1

The Tale

2018-01-20

5.2

Here and Now

2018-11-09

6.8

Smallfoot

2018-09-20

8.1

The Hate U Give

2018-10-19

1

Black America Again

2016-10-21

9

BET Presents Love & Happiness: An Obama Celebration

2016-11-15

7

Ocean's Eight

2018-06-07

6.2

The Kitchen

2019-08-08

5.8

Ava

2020-07-02

7.1

Saint Judy

2019-03-01

1

Kanye West: College Dropout [Video Anthology]

2005-03-22

10

Brave New Voices 2010

2010-01-01

6.2

Notorious B.I.G.: Bigger Than Life

2007-05-16

0

Music

2010-10-15

7.6

The Price of Protest

2019-08-18

6.3

A Most Beautiful Thing

2020-06-18

7.1

Dave Chappelle: The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize

2020-01-07

7.9

Let's Go Crazy: The Grammy Salute to Prince

2020-04-21

2

Letter to the President

2005-03-29

0

Letter to the Free

2016-11-01

5.7

Alice

2022-03-18

2

Pete Rock: Soul Survivor

1998-11-10

0

Hate to See You Go

7.3

One World: Together at Home

2020-04-18

8

Soundz of Spirit

2005-02-08

0

Paragraphs I Manifest

7.6

Hell on Wheels

2011-11-06

8.1

One on One

2001-09-03

5.6

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

2003-01-26

8.2

Nick Cannon Presents: Wild 'N Out

2005-07-28

5.4

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

1988-09-05

7.6

Girlfriends

2000-09-11

5.1

Tamron Hall

2019-09-09

5.4

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

1992-05-25

8.1

Scrubs

2001-10-02

7.1

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

1993-09-13

0

I Love the '70s: Volume 2

2006-07-10

0

Shut Up and Dribble

2018-11-03

8.2

Never Have I Ever

2020-04-27

6.7

jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy

2022-02-16

0

Black in the 80s

2005-02-01

5.5

TRL

1998-09-14

7

Saturday Night Live

1975-10-11

4.7

Framework

2015-01-06

6.4

The Daily Show

1996-07-22

7.6

MTV Video Music Awards

1984-09-14

6.3

Lip Sync Battle

2015-04-02

6.3

The Mindy Project

2012-09-25

4.4

The Chris Rock Show

1997-02-07

5.2

America Divided

2016-10-29

5.6

Game Over

2004-03-10

5.2

Chelsea

2016-05-11

6.9

American Masters

1986-06-23

6.3

The Kelly Clarkson Show

2019-09-09

6.4

The Jennifer Hudson Show

2022-09-12

6.6

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

2015-09-08

6.3

The Kelly Clarkson Show

2019-09-09

5.5

Late Night with Seth Meyers

2014-02-25

5.9

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

2014-02-17

4.5

The View

1997-08-11

3.5

Entertainment Tonight

1981-09-15

6.4

StoryBots: Answer Time

2022-11-21

0

Activate: The Global Citizen Movement

2019-09-05

6.6

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

2015-09-08

5

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

2009-07-16

8.1

The Simpsons

1989-12-17

6

Real Time with Bill Maher

2003-02-21

4

Off Camera with Sam Jones

2014-02-06

8.2

Silo

2023-05-04

7.4

Keeping Up with the Kardashians

2007-10-14

5.4

Bookmarks: Celebrating Black Voices

2020-09-01

8.3

Home Movie: The Princess Bride

2020-06-29

8.1

Chappelle's Show

2003-01-22

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