What is Common (rapper)?
{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2022}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Common | image = Common - 2018 (41963868844) (cropped).jpg | image_size = | caption = Common performing in 2018 | birth_name = Lonnie Rashid Lynn | alias = {{hlist|Common Sense|L. Liston|Willie Stargell<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://api.discogs.com/artists/14014|title=Common|publisher=discogs|access-date=August 31, 2019}}</ref>}} | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1972|3|13}} | birth_place = [[Chicago]], [[Illinois]], U.S. | genre = {{flatlist| * [[Hip hop music|Hip hop]] * [[neo soul]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://whitehouse.blogs.cnn.com/2011/05/11/common-%E2%80%98vile%E2%80%99-or-mainstream/|title=Common: 'Vile' or mainstream?|publisher=[[CNN]]|access-date=November 1, 2020|date=May 11, 2011|author=Anon.|archive-date=December 6, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201206012601/https://whitehouse.blogs.cnn.com/2011/05/11/common-%E2%80%98vile%E2%80%99-or-mainstream/|url-status=dead}}</ref> * [[progressive rap]]<ref>{{cite web|last=O'Connor|first=Christopher|date=March 29, 2000|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/820250/common-moves-toward-a-progressive-hip-hop/|title=Common Moves Toward a Progressive Hip-Hop|publisher=[[MTV News]]|accessdate=July 15, 2021|archive-date=July 15, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210715040610/http://www.mtv.com/news/820250/common-moves-toward-a-progressive-hip-hop/|url-status=dead}}</ref> }} | occupation = {{hlist|Rapper|singer|songwriter|actor}} | years_active = 1991–present<ref>{{cite web|author=Natasha|url=https://thesource.com/2014/08/08/the-light-in-hip-hop-a-reflection-on-the-words-works-of-common/|title=The Light In Hip Hop: A Reflection On The Words & Works Of Common|website=[[The Source]]|date=August 8, 2014|access-date=October 30, 2019}}</ref> | label = {{flatlist| * [[Loma Vista Recordings|Loma Vista]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lomavistarecordings.com/#home|title=Loma Vista – a recording comp