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Common is coming back after a very well put together album in 2007, Universal Mind Control.  Not the best album of the year but still a decent album.  But Common isn’t supposed to be known for putting out decent material.  Now in 2010 he’s working with Kanye West and No ID.  Talk about keeping it real, Common’s been working with No ID since before he was signed or even famous.  Working with two producers from his hometown Chicago, sounds like it’s going to be a banger.  Chicago artists have been putting out some good music lately by signed and unsigned artists.  The album is currently being worked on the album is entitled The Believer.  Although there’s no official release date Common said he is hoping to have the release by fall of 2010.  Common describes the album as “soulful Hip Hop.”  Well thanks for that bit of information, Common’s been making soulful Hip Hop for years now.  “It’s ‘good’ music,” he said. “The themes are street music and elevation, things that I feel like I always embody when I rap. But here there’s new situations, new solutions.”  I hear that we are looking forward to hearing some new Common music with some No ID beats behind it.  Check back for the album review a few weeks before the album comes out.

Look at who got a new promotion deal with Microsoft to promote their new HTC Touch Pro 2 celly, uh I mean mobile device. Microsoft went throwback on us using Naughty By Nature as the face of their new mobile device. So on MS’s Windows Mobile Facebook page they’re having a contest where if you become a fan, they select users to win the device, a concert featuring Naughty in LA at the Nokia Theater and Naughty’s new single, Get To Know Me Better, preloaded on the phone. Wow, I’m signing up right now, make sure you sign up for the contest soon because it ends on August 15th, 2009.  This isn’t the first time MS teamed up with a Hip Hop artist.  In December ’08 the partnered with Common to promote his new clothing line called Softwear.

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