Common Releases Two New Songs and Announces New Album Black America Again For November 2016 Release

American hip hop artist Common announced a new album for release on Nov 4 via Def Jam Records called Black America Again. He has already released two singles off his eleventh album, one called “Black America Again” ft Stevie Wonder and “Letters to the Free,” ft Bilal.

The new album comes at an appropriate time, as the Black Lives Matter movement expands and tensions between people of color versus America’s law enforcement rises. Black America Again seems to be Common’s own curated political statement in the form of well-produced conscious music.

“I wrote this song in March,” Common said of “Black America Again” recently, “and unfortunately it was as relevant then as it is now. As it could have been in the 1960s or 1800s or any era that we have existed in this country.”

He continued by saying the album “is centered in the injustices that black people have experienced and endured since we arrived on the shores of America. ‘Black America Again’ is a call to action. It is a song about black love, black strength, black justice, black resistance, black resilience, black empowerment, and black people.”

Common’s second single “Letter To The Free” was nominated for a 2016’s Critic’s Choice Documentary Award for Best “Song in a Documentary,” as his raw vocals from the soulful single are featured in Ava Duvernay’s new documentary “13th.”

Black America Again will be an anticipated followup album to the popular Nobody’s Smiling, his tenth album which topped at number one on the Rap and R&B charts in 2014.

Common has been headlined several festivals including the AAHH! Festival and Many Rivers to Cross Social Justice Festival.

The veteran rap artist also performed a short intimate set at The White House during NPR’s Tiny Desk Concerts.

Black America Again Tracklist:

01. Joy and Peace (f. Bilal)
02. Home (f. Bilal)
03. Word From Moe Luv Interlude
04. Black America Again (f. Stevie Wonder)
05. Love Star (f. Marsha Ambrosius & PJ)
06. On a Whim Interlude
07. Red Wine (f. Syd & Elena)
08. Pyramids
09. A Moment In the Sun Interlude
10. Unfamiliar (f. PJ)
11. A Bigger Picture Called Free (f. Syd & Bilal)
12. The Day Women Took Over (f. BJ the Chicago Kid)
13. Rain (f. John Legend)
14. Little Chicago Boy (f. Tasha Cobbs)
15. Letter To the Free (f. Bilal)
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