00:00Peace, Hollywood Reporter.
00:02I'm Common, and I'm sharing my playlist.
00:11This is a song I discovered that within the past few years, and I play it, I love the
00:17energy of it.
00:18It has this reggae type vibe to it.
00:22Chronix has this amazing voice and the soul of it.
00:27The music that I love, it has to have a feel to it, it has to make me feel something.
00:33Anytime I hear this song, I feel good, I feel uplifted, I feel like even the title itself,
00:39Eternal Light, it's a reminder of purpose in a way, a reminder of what I have to give.
00:47Sometimes I use that music before I'm about to go out to perform, before I'm gonna go meet
00:53with someone.
00:54I use music that inspires me.
00:56And Eternal Light by the Free Nationals is like, it got that oomph on me, so I love
01:02this song and Chronix, he's bad, he's a bad brother.
01:06I'm someone who loves music to lift me up, but I do use it for different moods that I
01:15need to get to.
01:16Sometimes going into meetings, I need to feel confidence.
01:21I need to feel like I can conquer the world.
01:24The world is mine, so I'll play different types of music for that, for that direction.
01:30But a lot of the music, especially starting at the beginning of my day, is music that will
01:37lift me and make me feel like everything is gonna be alright.
01:41The immortal words of Bob Marley.
01:45It's like, I love that type of music that just gives me that brightness.
01:51And that's why the theme, Light, I think a lot of this music I'm talking about, it's got
01:56light to it.
01:57Eternal Light.
01:57So yeah, I love, I love feeling good with the music.
02:01I don't wanna write this down, I don't wanna tell you how I feel right now.
02:06Umi Says, my Umi Says, shine your light on the world.
02:09As I said, light is kind of a theme for some of the songs I've been choosing.
02:14Umi Says is a song created by the incomparable Most Deaf, also known as Yassin Bey.
02:22When I heard this song, like this is one of my comrades, this is one of my friends and
02:29fellow musicians, we have come up together in music, that's my brother, but when I heard
02:35this song, I was like, this song was like no other song I'd heard before.
02:41Just because you knew, you thought of Most as his rapper, and I knew he could sing some,
02:47but just his style of singing was very unique, it gave me, it's like no other, like nobody
02:54else's.
02:55And it's coming from that place of feeling and heart and soul, and what he is doing in
03:00that song is celebrating his mother.
03:03When he says, Umi, that stands for mother.
03:06My Umi Says, shine your light on the world.
03:09I relate to that so much from my mother being like, you can do things, and telling me and
03:18giving me the foundation and guidance and love to let me know that I can shine my light.
03:25So, this song, not only is the feel of it, like this vibe, this is like, okay, this is a
03:32culmination
03:33of all types of sounds.
03:35Just the feel of that song, what it does, it takes me to a place of like, of gratitude,
03:44and like thinking about all the things that I can do.
03:48And, you know, him chanting, I want my people to be free, to be free, to be free.
03:56I want my people to be free.
03:58It's like, it just, you know, it just tops off the song.
04:03Like, this is what I'm going to take my light and do.
04:06I'm going to take my light and free my people through the music I make and through the person I
04:12am.
04:12And that's what I get from that song.
04:16And, yeah, it just makes me feel good.
04:18And it's another one of those songs that brings light to my heart and soul when I hear it.
04:25When you feel deep inside.
04:30Golden time of day.
04:31That's the golden time of day.
04:33Frankie, Beverly, and Mays.
04:35I'm a kid that grew up on the south side of Chicago.
04:39Little black kid that loves music, loves art.
04:44Man, we have some wonderful times in our neighborhood.
04:49Black club, parties, barbecues.
04:54Great, like, parties at the park.
04:58Frankie, Beverly, and Mays is a theme throughout all these events of celebration.
05:06And who we are and joy.
05:09Golden time of day is a song about that beautiful time of day where, you know, the sun is about
05:15to set.
05:16And it's like, it's like no other.
05:18We all have seen that, that sun and seen that, like, looked and said, wow, this is, look at that.
05:26That's amazing.
05:27Look at the color of the sky.
05:29Frankie, Beverly, and Mays describe that in the music.
05:32He sang about it.
05:35The music feels like that.
05:37It definitely is feel good.
05:39And it definitely has something to do with the light and the sun.
05:44And even if you can't see that sunset, it'll bring that to your mind, maybe, or to your imagination.
05:57This song is not a song of light, so I'm kind of breaking up my theme a little bit.
06:03Shook Ones, Mobb Deep.
06:05Shook Ones, Part 2.
06:07It's one of my favorite songs of all time.
06:12Hip-hop songs, it's one of my favorite songs.
06:15As I said, I listen to music to get me in different modes, too.
06:20I think the mode that Shook Ones, Part 2, gives to me is like, it reminds me of coming from
06:27the streets of Chicago and just going out and having to, you know, you gotta kick ass sometimes.
06:34You gotta go conquer things.
06:37And you gotta have the mentality, can't nothing stop you.
06:42So, I play Shook Ones like, not only am I playing it when I'm just feeling like that vibe, like
06:47y'all, just wanna feel that part of me, that side of me, that warrior side, the streets, everything that
06:53that gives.
06:55But also, like I said, sometimes going into different settings and meetings, it's like, it's one of those things that
07:02grounds me into who I am.
07:04Cause you might be going in a meeting with some of the biggest names in Hollywood, and you just gotta
07:10remember who you are.
07:11Like, and not put on for them, for that person.
07:16So, Shook Ones is one of the ones that like, yo, this is where I come from, and I am
07:22not gonna change that up to be a part of anything.
07:26I'm not gonna compromise myself.
07:29And Shook Ones, man, shout out to, and rest in peace to Prodigy and Havoc for creating one of the
07:37greatest hip-hop songs ever.
07:39I say one of the greatest songs.
07:46I love jazz, and John Coltrane is one of the greatest musicians, artists to ever live.
07:54And I play his music to get my mind off of stress, to get my mind off of heavy things.
08:04I play his music to let my imagination run free and fly.
08:09I play his music to drift off and feel like, ah, the world is better.
08:15I know there's a lot going on, but the world could be better.
08:19And I usually would have chose a love supreme, but my favorite things, hearing that, when I put that on,
08:28I feel nothing but joy and light and inspiration.
08:34And I'm gonna have to be honest, like, I hadn't really listened to the original version of my favorite things.
08:42Like, I hadn't listened to it a lot.
08:44Like, eventually when I saw the sound of music, I was like, oh, this is dope, this is dope.
08:49But hearing a jazz musician interpret it, and someone of his caliber, his quality, it's amazing to take on my
09:01favorite things.
09:02It's one of those songs I put on, you know, when I'm getting ready.
09:07And I'm like, ah, getting ready to, you know, getting dressed and stuff.
09:11And I'm like, ah, the day is about to be wonderful.
09:13And, you know, we need that reinforcement sometimes and encouragement.
09:18And that's what that song does for me.
09:20Stopping philosophy, I am the pottery of greater hands.
09:24For the children of the lesser, I'm a greater man.
09:26On stage I stand.
09:28Vision, which is a song that 9th Wonder and I created for the 30 for 30, based on Stuart Scott's
09:35life.
09:35Stuart Scott, who was one of the greatest broadcaster, sports journalists, individuals to ever do it.
09:46I always wanted to do a film about him.
09:49I still believe it should be a scripted film about Stuart Scott because he was that innovative and that groundbreaking.
09:57He brought a lot of culture to broadcasting at a time where it wasn't really accepted.
10:08And he bridged the gap in many ways because he was so great at what he does and professional.
10:14But at the same token, he was referencing Jay-Z or Nas or Jill Scott or Run-DMC or, you
10:23know, Dougie Fresh.
10:25Like, he was letting the black culture know, like, hey, I'm here for you, too.
10:30And we are represented.
10:32And you will be seen because I'm going to express who we are.
10:38And I am a bridge.
10:41I'm not shutting off anybody.
10:42This is about everybody enjoying it.
10:44But you are acknowledged and you mean something.
10:48And vision was, like, it was intentional and it was really an example of who he is.
10:56Like, I was talking about his vision to be coming from where he came from to become what he had
11:02become.
11:03And to break down those walls, he had to have a vision for himself and a vision of what he
11:08could be.
11:09And that had to be unshakable.
11:11And he expressed that and he did that.
11:14But also I used vision because he was dealing, came with the title vision and that concept because he was
11:20also dealing with eye issues where he was, like, partially blind in one of his eyes.
11:25So I was, like, really thinking about even not being able to physically see he still had to have a
11:32vision to continue his journey and his climb to what he became.
11:38Like I said, one of the most legendary sports broadcasters of all time.
11:44I would name his playlist, The Light Will Last Forever.
11:49Hopefully it would give them that feeling of what I talked about with music, where you might feel good.
11:54But I don't actually want to tell you what my song will make you feel.
11:57I think, you know, I would love for you to hear it and then see what it does make you
12:01feel.
12:01But I would suggest The Light for your playlist.
12:14So, see if we're like morepeople in the video, where we could get the space, like, right?
12:16And I don't start feeling like I naturally used to be theõ elements.
12:27It's going to be
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