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This is what I like to call graduation season. Typically around Mother's Day weekend we begin to see an influx of students and families celebrating the accomplishments of graduating college and/or high school students. Along with this time of the season we tend to see celebrities, and the First Lady , delivering commencement speeches at colleges as well as obtaining their very own honorary degrees. For instance, rapper/actor Common received his honorary degree and delivered the commencement speech at Winston-Salem State University in North Carolina this past weekend. Congrats to the 2015 graduates of #WSSU #Progress Thanx for the Honorary Doctorate!  Dr. Lynn has a nice sound to it.  #ImGeeked #WonderfulDay #HBCU A video posted by Common (@common) on May 15, 2015 at 12:49pm PDT Also over the weekend, actor Denzel Washington delivered a heartfelt commencement speech to the graduating class of 2015 at historically black college Dillard University. W...

If you do a Twitter search there are various reports of Common and Lupita Nyong'o being spotted together in NYC at dinner and a theatre. OMG Common just walked into a bar I'm at with Lupita Nyongo! #holycrap — AnnieOnAir (@AnnieOntheRadio) March 11, 2015 So I'm at the @pershingsquare1 and ran into Common and Lupita on a date. 😳 — Taylor (@realtaycoleman) March 11, 2015 I am currently sitting in a theatre with Lupita Nyong'o and Common about to watch Big love. Be jealous. #starstruck — Kevin DeCastro (@theatreblood) March 10, 2015 Could this just be a random outing between two Academy Award winners who happen to share a stylist? Our stylist Micaela and I are so happy for, and proud of @Common for winning Best Original Song at the #Oscars tonight! @JohnLegend @houseoferlanger @theacademy @calvinklein @chopard A photo posted by Lupita Nyong'o (@lupitanyongo) on Feb 23, 2015 at 2:51am PST I don't know if he's holdi...

Elsa/Getty Images North America Beyonce, Beyonce, Beyonce !!  A day can't go by without story about Beyonce whether it be true, false or speculated but this news here I'm kind of glad to hear. Beyonce along with Common  and John Legend will take part in a ' Selma' dedicated performance where the pop star will sing " Precious Lord Take My Hand " while Legend and Common perform " Glory" . " Glory " is from the movie's soundtrack and also Oscar nominated having already nabbed a Golden Globe for the song.  Rick Diamond/Getty Images North America "We do have an incredible introduction to our performance,” Common exclusively told Us Weekly at the Tanqueray Trunk Show in New York City on Jan. 31. “A segue into our song ‘Glory,’ as a tribute to Selma, being done by the great Beyonce. That's one of the greatest talents you can have, helping us segue into it. To co-create a performance with someone like her. It's g...

What a seductive cover with a random pairing. In this month’s  cover story , writer Ericka Blount Danois caught up with  Common  who recently released his 10th album,  Nobody’s Smiling . The rapper-actor touched on his sex-symbol status (he’s not working at it), Serena Williams (he really loved her) stopping the violence in Chicago (he’s a soldier) and where he fits in music today (he feels like a new artist).   But before we jump into the world of Lonnie Rashid Lynn, Jr. , check out the making of this sizzling hot cover shot on location at  The EWOW Penthouse Suite at The W Times Square –  plus a special message from Common and Selita Ebanks.   I was wondering why the hell Selita was on the cover...they look great together tho. Mmmmm hmmmm ... Source

Well, you don't say?! In a recent interview with VLAD TV Common stated the obvious we were thinking for a long time now. That he and Drake 's beef, that Common initiated, was in part due to his break up with Serena Williams . “For me, I think it was an emotional thing,” he expressed. “Meaning, I was feeling like, at that time I think it was the Drake/Serena situation. I didn’t know what was going on with that. I ain’t know if he was throwing things, shots at me. Like you know, this is my ex and you know we’re kinda going our separate ways.”    “Unfortunately the war might have been over a girl, even though at the time I never said that. But it wasn’t totally that, it was more or less, ‘Do you respect me? Because I actually like you as an artist.’”   “Now it’s like nothing but love,” Common continued. “I ain’t on that.”   “The reason we can be at peace now is because we had a face to face talk. You know, this where I am with it. We had a good conver...

In the outtakes of Drake's XXL interview he discussed his beef with Common , why he generally felt offended and what he thinks prompted the Chicago rapper to come after him. I think you impressed a lot of people when you went after Common. A lot of rap fans didn’t think you could get him. There is a bunch of Common diehards who would never let you utter the words “Drake got” anything in front of them. I felt really hurt man. I felt like some injustice was done to me in a sense of we’re talking about Common, we’re talking a guy whose music I enjoy, a guy who I had never met, a guy who I never conversed with at that point. We’re talking about the guy outside the hearing impaired girl’s window with the sign cards with the love songs and he’s coming at me for being soft? That hurt me. I told him that. I’m like, “Man, you’re supposed to embrace what I’m doing. I’m balancing real rap with girl records with club records. I’m just trying to give people music to live with and for y...

Obviously some of the crew is missing but Teyana Taylor, Pusha T , Common , Big Sean and the dude in the red jacket ( Cyhi The Prynce ) provided quite a bit of G.O.O.D comedy. Take a look as Teyana flips her hair, Charlamagne clowns Pusha T's cornrows, Teyana flips her hair, Charlamagne drops a few Kim K jokes, Teyana backtracks on her Rihanna shade via Twitter, Common gets a chance to speak, Teyana flips her hair and Big Sean speaks a lot in the wake of their debut collaborative album Cruel Summer ! Am I late on Cyhi the Prynce ?

I had the pleasure of attending the annual Summer Spirit Festival this weekend in Columbia Maryland with talents such as Eric Roberson , Estelle , Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings , Common and Erykah Badu gracing the stage as well as a tribute to the late great Chuck Brown . Check out a few of my pics I snapped. I never claimed to be Steve McCurry so please bare with me. Trust me when I say Common is fine! Far or close, big or small his beauty can be captured... I took many more pics but who has time to squint while doing a handstand on one hand in order to make out the pic? I know I don't. Luckily my headliner pics of Common and Erykah were semi decent . Here’s a few pics my buddy James took. Did you think I wouldn’t have back up?!

  TICKETS are still available for the annual Summer Spirit Festival tomorrow, August 4th, at the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland. Don't miss out on a great show!!