{"id":2445333,"date":"2019-06-14T08:55:20","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T14:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=848234"},"modified":"2019-06-14T08:55:20","modified_gmt":"2019-06-14T14:55:20","slug":"hear-commons-homage-to-hip-hop-history-on-new-song-her-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/hear-commons-homage-to-hip-hop-history-on-new-song-her-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Common\u2019s Homage to Hip-Hop History on New Song \u2018HER Love\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screen-Shot-2019-06-14-at-6.50.15-AM.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/common\/\" id=\"auto-tag_common\" data-tag=\"common\">Common<\/a> reflects on the past 25 years of hip-hop \u2013 as well as his own 1994 classic \u201cI Used to Love H.E.R.\u201d \u2013 on the rapper\u2019s new single \u201cHER Love.\u201d The track features guest appearances by Daniel Caesar and Dwele and boasts an unreleased beat by the late J. Dilla.<\/p>\n<p>Common also dropped a Savanah Leaf-directed visual for the song, which is the rapper\u2019s latest ode to \u201cHip-Hop in its Essence is Real.\u201d On the track, Common name-checks artists like Meek Mill, Nipsey Hussle, Cardi B, 2 Chainz and many more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou gave me a voice in this world \/ But it\u2019s been hard to choose another girl \/ They trip when you mumble, they trip when you sing \/ But you gave us a chance to dream,\u201d Common sings to H.E.R.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Young Thug\u2019s, you see a future \/ You recognize Lil Uzi ain\u2019t here to shoot ya \/ At 21, you knew I was Savage \/ But you said \u2018Common, you will never be average.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHER Love\u201d is the latest single of Common\u2019s new LP dubbed <em>Let Love Have the Last Word<\/em>, which shares its title with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/common-memoir-let-love-have-the-last-word-interview-watch-832699\/\">the memoir<\/a> the rapper released in May. The album is Common\u2019s first since 2016\u2019s Black America Again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love music so much. And on&nbsp;<em>Let Love<\/em>, this recommitting, rebirth and \u2018re love,\u2019 if that\u2019s a word, just came to fruition,\u201d Common said in a statement. \u201cMusic has always been the genesis of my creative life and it feels more than fulfilling, more than wonderful, and a joy that is hard to wrap up, to be giving my whole self to it again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/common-love-her-j-dilla-848234\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Common reflects on the past 25 years of hip-hop \u2013 as well as his own 1994 classic \u201cI Used to Love H.E.R.\u201d \u2013 on the rapper\u2019s new single \u201cHER Love.\u201d The track features guest appearances by Daniel Caesar and Dwele and boasts an unreleased beat by the late J. Dilla. Common also dropped a Savanah [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2445333","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-20 22:29:52","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2445333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2445333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2445333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2445333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}