Common
- Common is an American hip-hop rap artist who is a grammy and oscar award winner.
- Lonnie Corant Jaman Shuka Rashid Lynn (real name)
- Debued his first album ‘Can i borrow a dollar?’ in 1992 at the age of 20
- Net worth = $45 million
- Has been signed with warner bros
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- Released in 2016 on the album Black American again
- Contains cultural and social significance
- Common wrote the song ‘Letter to the free’ for the documentary of the 13th, named after the American 13th amendment to abolish slavery
- Bilal is an American singer songwriter and record producer
- 880 thousand views
- Filmed in a prison
- look lost at beginning looking up at ceiling, black n white, no shoes, isolated not grand piano, small drum, jazz origins, black square – metaphor, prison, 13th amendment (slavery), repetition of ‘freedom’ ‘freedom of come”hold on’, camera always moving away from people,only one person playing instrument at a time, (last line freedom won’t be long), ‘effecting millions’ ‘slave days separating fathers from children’ ‘buildings are a method black and brown bodies to fill them‘, ‘not seen as humans with feelings’ ‘ dehumanised’ (objects), ‘will the us ever be US’, ‘the stop search and arrest of our souls (trinkets show, woman suspicious of black girl in shop just looking around), all in black clothing, ‘slavery’s still alive look at the amendment 13′, ‘instead of nigga they use the word criminal’, ‘prison is a business america’s the company’, Conservative movement (staying in one spot), suggesting restriction/staying in the norm