Show Preview & Giveaway: Common @ Stubbs/Afterparty

He is an icon of style, but more Vanity Fair than Gap. He is a well-received voice to a younger generation, despite being a senior citizen in rap years. He is no longer regarded as a reactive outsider to the rap mainstream, but a unique element within it – intellectual and jazz-inflected, but still sharp-tongued and assertive. Of all the hold-overs from 90’s rap who one can hear floating through town at places like Stubb’s, Common is the rare artist who not only gets more popular by the day, but also potentially still has his best work ahead of him.

Across Red River, after the Common show, his DJ, DJ Dummy, is playing, supported by a hefty serving of local talent – Chicken George, Bavu Blakes, DJ Kunal M, and Nerdy Harry from the Table Manners Crew. We haven’t heard anything definite, but Common is also maybe the only A-list rapper we could see sauntering into Mohawk for the after-party.

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