Common is the stage name of Lonnie Corant Jaman Shuka Rashid Lynn, an American Rapper.

He won a grammy for best R&B singer in 2003.

His net worth is $45 million.

He was born March 13, 1972 in Chicago, Illinois.

“Letter to the free” was made for “The 13th” a documentary by Ava DuVernay named after the American 13th amendment (The abolition of slavery).

The documentary centers around the mass incarceration of African-Americans as a form of modern-day slavery, and is named after the 13th Amendment, which made slavery illegal except as “punishment of crime”.