Popular rapper Common made an appearance in Philadelphia on Monday to help get out the vote for Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris on the last day to register for next month’s election.

Well before Chance the Rapper became a household name, Common called him up. No, not to work with him. A decade ago, Common simply dialed, at the behest of his grandmother, to give a 14-year-old fan ...

Common and hip-hop have always had a symbiotic relationship. As a young rapper from the Southside of Chicago, hip-hop provided him with a path toward notoriety, success and empowerment. In return, ...

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LOS ANGELES — Common — rapper, actor, Emmy- and Oscar-winning songwriter — voices the Stonekeeper, a mountaintop village’s yeti leader, in Friday’s animated musical “Smallfoot.” “Being part of this ...