Artist	Song
Common	The Light
from Like Water for Chocolate (2000)
Common	I Used to Love H.E.R.
from Resurrection (2007)
Common	Come Close Remix (Closer)
from Come Close - Single (2003)
Common, Kanye West & Mase	Jesus Walks
from One Million Strong, Vol. 2 (2005)
Common	Go!
from Be (2005)
Common & Bilal	The 6th Sense
from Like Water for Chocolate (2000)
Common	Ghetto Dreams (feat. Nas)
from Ghetto Dreams (feat. Nas) - Single (2011)
Common	I Want You
from Finding Forever (2007)
Common	Resurrection
from Resurrection (2007)
Common	Faithful
from Be (2005)
Common	Drivin' Me Wild
from Finding Forever (2007)
Common	Take It EZ
from Can I Borrow a Dollar? (2007)
Common	Testify
from Be (2005)
Common	The People
from Finding Forever (2007)
Common	Universal Mind Control (UMC)
from Universal Mind Control (2008)
Kanye West, Talib Kweli & Common	Get Em High
from The College Dropout (2004)
Common & The Last Poets	The Corner
from Be (2005)
Common & Mos Def	The Question
from Like Water for Chocolate (2000)
Common & Sadat X	1999
from Rawkus Records: Best of Decade I, 1995-2005 (2005)
Black Star & Common	Respiration
from Rawkus Records: Best of Decade I, 1995-2005 (2005)
Common	Come Close
from Electric Circus (2002)
Common, John Legend & Kanye West	They Say
from Be (2005)
Common	Breaker 1/9
from Can I Borrow a Dollar? (2007)
Common	Reminding Me (Of Sef) [feat. Chantay Savage]
from One Day It'll All Make Sense (1997)
Common	Southside (feat. Kanye West)
from Finding Forever (2007)
Common	Retrospect For Life (feat. Lauryn Hill)
from One Day It'll All Make Sense (1997)
Common	Soul By the Pound
from Can I Borrow a Dollar? (2007)
The Roots & Common	Love of My Life
from The Roots Come Alive (1999)
Common	The Hustle
from Electric Circus (2002)
Common	Thisisme
from Resurrection (2007)
Common	Heidi Hoe
from Can I Borrow a Dollar? (2007)
Common	Payback Is a Grandmother
from Like Water for Chocolate (2000)
Common	Real Nigga Quotes
from One Day It'll All Make Sense (1997)
Common	Book of Life
from Resurrection (2007)
Common	G.O.D. (Gaining One's Definition) Featuring Ce-Lo
from One Day It'll All Make Sense (1997)
Common & Slum Village	Thelonius
from Like Water for Chocolate (2000)
Common	Stolen Moments, Pt. 2 (feat. Black Thought )
from One Day It'll All Make Sense (1997)
Common	Watermelon
from Resurrection (2007)
Common	Charms Alarm
from Can I Borrow a Dollar? (2007)
T.I.	Goodlife (feat. Pharrell & Common)
from King (2006)
Jill Scott & Common	8 Minutes to Sunrise
from Jill Scott Collaborations (2007)
De La Soul & Common	Days of Our Lives
from The Grind Date (2008)
Anthony Hamilton, Common & Talib Kweli	Ghetto Show
from The Beautiful Struggle (2004)
Hi-Tek featuring Busta Rhymes, Common, J Dilla, Marsha Ambrosius & Nas	Music for Life
from Hi-teknology, Vol. 2 (2006)
Chino XL, Common & Royce Tha 5.9"	Enough Beef
from Back 2 Basics (2005)

Comment:

The connection between Kanye West and Common reaches much farther than a couple remixes and their collaborations on Common's last two albums, [i]Be[/i] and [i]Finding Forever[/i]. In fact, Common established himself as a godfather of Chicago rap in the early '90s, not the other way around. Take a look at the liner notes for his first three albums and you'll find a glaring, full-circle Kanye connection many miss — the predominant production of No I.D., a beat conductor and Jermaine Dupri sideman (Usher's "My Boo," Bow Wow's "Let Me Hold You") who first schooled West in the art of sampling at Common's early sessions. No wonder why our [i]Common[/i] Essentials feels like a brisk, thorough history of Midwestern hip-hop, from the hungry, hard-hitting bent of [i]Resurrection[/i] and [i]One Day It'll All Make Sense[/i] to the neo-soul scene epitomized by Common's biggest single, "The Light," a dazzling, refreshingly honest meditation on love and devotion.

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