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Common tickets can be bought or sold online at StubHub.com. Most major rap stars’ personalities outweigh their talents. They’re more about creating a ruckus and drawing attention to them, their bling and their street cred. Common is much more relaxed about those things. On stage, you don’t seem him huffing and puffing as much as sliding right into the mode of performer. He doesn’t need to prove his talent. Originally calling himself Common Sense, Lonnie Rashied Lynn grew up in Chicago, and developed his talents as a professional rapper at a time when his particular musical preference ran against the norm. As gangsta rap rose in the ‘90s, Common wrote diamond hard rhymes that shone with an intelligence lacking on the Top 40 hip-hop charts. His music relied more on jazz-inflected beats, and spent less time spinning gritty tales of urban survival than pondering life problems and relationships. His debut album, Can I Borrow a Dollar?, was released in 1992, attracting attention in the hip-hop underground, but not exactly launching Common into the mainstream. By 1994’s Resurrection, it was clear to those who were paying attention that Common has something special to offer the world of hip-hop. On one of the album’s best songs, "I Used to Love H.E.R.," he comes across as a love struck young man who meets an amazing, proud and intelligent girl. She’s fun, down-to-earth, and all about furthering the cause of African-Americans. In time, though, she moves out to the West Coast and falls in with the gangsta rap crowd, talking about selling rocks and shooting glocks. He’s crestfallen, but doesn’t abandon her; he wants to nurse her back to who she was again. The girl in question, of course, is hip-hop itself. Throughout the ‘90s, Common released numerous albums, but it wasn’t until post-millennium that he began to see major attention from critics across the country. Now, Common is still considered underground, but his audience is far more vast, and there’s a great deal of variety in who’s buying Common tickets. It seems that his hope of reviving old-school, intelligent hip-hop is becoming a reality. Written by Andrew Good and sponsored by StubHub. StubHub sells sports tickets, concert tickets, theater tickets and more to just about any event in the world. Don’t miss Common tickets.
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