The Independent - 25.08.2019

(Ben Green) #1
SUNDAY 25 AUGUST 2019

COMMON’S TOUCH


The hip-hop legend speaks to Roisin O’Connor about his new album

‘Let Love’, racism, relationships – and how he came to terms with a

long forgotten childhood trauma

The MC is one of the foremost examples of the ‘conscious rapper’ (Durimel)


Common hasn’t really slept. Last night, in London, the rapper, actor and author was drinking and playing
Scrabble, he tells me. Then, lying in bed, he spent the early hours tweeting about the US-Mexico border


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