The Breakfast Club - Common Interview

Episode Date: March 13, 2015

Oscar winner Common stopped by The Breakfast Club where he talked about leaving Oprah hi & dry for a high-five at The Oscars, how he felt right after his big Oscar win for 'Glory' and if he's back together with ex-girlfriend Serena Williams. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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His birthday is this Friday. Yeah, yeah. Mr. Common. Congrats, man. Congrats. Peace to the God. Peace to the God, though. Now, why'd you leave Oprah hanging with the high five, man?

Oh, man, that's what she tried to give me back. That's what she tried to give me back. Man, you know what? I thought she was about to give, I thought she was giving a high five to John, so I was, like, saving myself. I was like, yo, let me go. I didn't want to get caught out there,

so anyway, that's my girl now. She cool, man. Did you call her to apologize afterwards? Yo, I talked to her the next day. She was like, yo, she was just like, dang, man, y'all really killed that performance. She was feeling that joint. You probably didn't even realize you left Oprah Hanging. You probably saw

it the next day on Vine or something. I know. That's exactly what happened. I was like, yo, you seen your Oprah? That's one of those moments you wish you could take back and do over again. Oh, man, I definitely wanted to do it. I ain't gonna lie. I wanted to do it over because I was like, that's all they're showing on Vine. We leaving Oprah Hanging. It's over. Now, did you think that you were going to win the Oscar? I mean, I was feeling confident.'s all they're showing on Vine. We leaving Oprah. It's over.

Now, did you think that you were going to win the Oscar? I mean, I was feeling confident. We were feeling confident. But until they say your name, you just don't know. Because it was like they were talking about some of the other nominees. And, you know, it's different people voting. So we were just like sitting there like, I ain't going to lie, I was nervous. But I was still like, okay, man, we can do this.

And when I heard them, they said John Stevens and Lonnie Lynn, I was like, man, we won. We got an Oscar. It's incredible. Did your people know it was you that won? Yeah, my, I mean. It wasn't Common. Yeah, no, yeah. But around in the audience, they didn't know.

They was looking around like, what's up? Yeah, man, Common didn't win. I know, but till we jumped up. When my mother jumped up like oh first that's my mother yeah she was she was geek man so now it's everybody's saying that you and serena williams got back together i know why they say that because she was holding my oscar you know come on now you just don't let anybody hold the oscar yeah i know crazy she was holding your oscar oh you call him oscar she posted a pic of y'all two that night but deleted it.

Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. But, you know, that's my girl, man. Shoot, I give her love all the time. We just saw her at the party, and, you know, I'm going to give her that respect. She can hold the Oscar. I can't think of a better way to celebrate. Yeah, exactly.

It's complicated. Did she hold you later? Because you're like gold and bald. Did she hold you? Did she hold you?? Because you're like golden bald. She like the golden. She like the golden boy. I read in People Magazine, you said more people know you now. Yeah.

After Selma. Yeah, for sure, man. It's like different people from walks of life, from 10-year-old kids. Yeah, white people, black people, Latino, Asian, like different people coming up to me being like, man, we really feel similar. We feel glory. Or like, man, we loved y'all at the Oscars. Older people too. I'd be like, wow, man.

It's a good feeling though because I felt like we were representing like hip-hop culture, representing black people, representing a lot of different things that just, you know, people to people. You know, I'd be on the people. So I felt like we were representing that. And to have people coming up saying, yo, we honor that. It's good. Did you go out there for the march with President Barack Obama?

Did you go out there? No, no, I didn't get to go there. Yeah. Why not? I was here promoting this movie, Run All Night, that we got coming out. So I had to be here for that. That comes out on your birthday, too, right? Yeah, it's on my birthday.

Right. Yeah, with Liam Neeson. It's good, it's good. I'm a Pisces, you know? What does that mean? I mean, we just, we cool, we always tell the truth, and we, you know, we open and speak in our mind.

He lets you hold his Oscar, too. He lets you hold his Oscar, too, if you want. Now, Common, I don't know that you've always told the truth. What are you lying about? In his memoirs, he talks about certain situations where he would fake things. Like what? I mean, you got to maneuver through life sometimes,

but, you know, overall, I tell the truth. Would women say that you're honest? Yeah, for sure. That's the one thing a woman going to get from me is honesty. I read something that said you used to fart when you was 12 to get girls' attention. Yeah, you know, when you're shorter, you're trying all types of things, man. I was acting wild in class.

I never did that. Come at no game when you was 12. You ain't never farted around a girl to get attention? No. No, not to get attention. I know, but I was like being a little class clown or something. I don't know if that's the right kind of attention. Did it ever work?

No, I know it ain't the right. It ain't, but I mean, the girls, I still was getting girls in, so it worked somewhere. You don't do that now. No, no, I don't know if that's the right kind of attention. Did it ever work? No, I know it ain't the right. It ain't, but I mean, the girls, I still was getting girls in, so it works somewhere. You don't do that now. No, no, I don't. You know, I love it. Everyone's gonna go home and try it.

I always tell men when they fart around other men, I say that's a form of flirting, so I guess it's kind of the same thing. Yeah, I mean. Why would you want a man to know what your ass smell like?

No. Yeah, I don't be thinking about that, Charlamagne. How serious do you have to be with a female to fart in front of her? I mean, you gotta be, yeah, you gotta know her well. You ain't gonna do that

in the first, like, couple months or two. You know what I'm saying? You gotta be cool with it. What about for her to do that in front of you? Is that something that you're like, I mean, eventually,

if she, like, we real cool, then I'm with it. But at first, she ain't going to be doing that. If Serena look far in front of you? Man, I ain't going to call her no Serena. Serena good people, man. You're laughing because something happened. Serena good people.

I just appreciate it. I'm proud of you. I always wondered about Glory. When did y'all write that record? Because it seems so timely with everything that's going on with police brutality. Yeah. You know, just the way we need to seem like we needed that record as a people. When did you write that record?

We wrote it like it was like October because Ava DuVernay, who directed the movie, she was talking to me about doing the song. But they was busy editing. So I was like, OK. One day I just like, man, let me call John Legend. We'll just get started on the song. And he started it up. I told him the title, Glory, was one of them. And he sent me the music.

He sent me the piano, him singing. I just started working on that joint. We wrote that joint quick, though. So it was in the height of everything. Yeah, yeah. Okay, okay. Wow. You gave a really powerful speech at the Oscars,

but some people, for whatever reason, were upset about it. Like I saw people saying, oh, you know, how dare he say these things. I couldn't understand that. You know, you know you can't keep everybody happy. I've been having more people come up to me and like, you know, be like, man, that speech meant something to me.

You know, I've had people saying they was crying about it. So it's like, at the end of the day, I know you ain't gonna please everybody. I said it because that's they was crying about it. So it's like, at the end of the day, I know you ain't going to please everybody. I said it because that's what was on my mind. I think John had something important to say, too. So we just took that moment to be like, we ain't even giving no shouts out or no thank yous. We was just like, look, we're going to say something to me. Got to get this off our chest.

You also said, I saw it in People Magazine, that you're being known for the thing you want to be known for. Like, exactly what is that thing? Yeah. I mean, just like like, standing for something, representing hip-hop in a certain way. And really, man, shoot, I'm a person of God, so I'm going to reflect that. And just being known for, like, standing up,

speaking up for certain things, and being, you know, a person that's trying to bring people together, really. Now, Jay congratulated you on social media. Did you ever speak to him after that? Yeah, I told him. I told him, man, I was like, I said, man, you know, we got that Golden Globe. And then they said right after we got off the stage, you know, they told us, they was like, Jay just tweeted glory.

And then when I told Jay, I was like, man, when I seen that, I was like, we made it. Like, you know, like Jay tweeted us, we made it. I was, you know, I was geek, we made it. Jay tweeted us, we made it. I was geek, man, because he was real supportive. He was like, when I saw him the night after the Oscars, he was like, man, don't put that Oscar down, man. You did this for us. He was overjoyed about me winning it. I was like, man, I appreciated the love he had for me.

Will you ever work with each other, do a record? Man, I want to, man. That dude, obviously one of the greatest. And he like, for me, man, he still be snapping on the raps. Absolutely. So I would love to rock with Ho. Is that what you meant? A fan asked you what's on your bucket list that you haven't done yet in hip hop,

and you said Jay-Z. Jay-Z, yeah. Okay. I love to rock a song. And we ain't never did nothing, so yeah, that'd be right. I'm supposed to work with Ye too on some stuff. We've been talking about getting up on some more music. Ye back right.

I said, you know, I wanted Yeezus to be like his electric circus. Yeah. Then he come back with Da B. Yeah, he coming back. You see, he three for three right now with the Only One and the All Day and the Wolves. Man, that All Day, I love rocking that joint.

Tough tool. And Wolves, and I like how, you know, he giving it up for like Vic Mensa, some of the youngest from Chicago. It's just dope, man. You embraced Chance the Rapper early on as well. Yeah, I definitely. You said, he told us, I think your grandmother cool?

Yeah, my grandmother's cool, so my grandmother was like, man, you know, it's this kid, you know, my friend got her grandson rap, can you just say something to him? So I hit him up, and he wasn't Chance the Rapper then. Maybe that was his name, but I just hit him up and just gave him a little inspiration. But he dope too, man, Chance though.

You probably get a lot of that in Chicago, though. Like, Common, is this rapper that you, could you hit him up, Lonnie? All the time. Don't keep going. Yeah, for sure. I definitely get it, you know. But I feel like it's my duty to be able to give it up for some of the new generation coming up as far as just hip-hop,

especially coming from Chicago. I feel like, man, we done opened some doors. It's up to us. That's why I'm honoring what they're doing, whether it's Lil Bibby, whether it's little herb or dirk or or chance and vic minson yeah now also this this friday is your birthday so what are you doing with you on your birthday and who are you doing it with man we go i'm gonna i'm really just gonna kick it with my team man because we uh we've been in like a lot of celebratory modes since things been popping so i ain't gonna do too much you gotta go to the movies yeah i am going to movies to see run all

night okay i think that would be a great idea, to go on your birthday, surprise people, show up at the movie theater with your team. Man, y'all gotta see me in this movie. I'm like a crazy hitman. It's dope. And I'm going at it with Liam Neeson. We go toe-to-toe. It's dope, man.

You be acting like that's a stretch, like you're not from Chicago. Like I ain't never seen you slap somebody at the house. Why do you always gotta bring that up? I always bring that up. We bring that up every time, man. You be acting like that's a stretch, like you not from Chicago. Like I ain't never seen you slap somebody at the house. Why you always gotta bring that up? Why do you always bringing that up? He bringing that up every time, man. When you went to Oscar, I'm like, yo, that's Common. That's Ken, our broad dollar. You know, I saw him slap somebody in my room.

Chalamet always bringing that up. All the great things that Common has done, and you want to talk about him slapping somebody all the time. It inspires. It does inspire though. You know somebody come from that and you see them doing this. Tell us a story for somebody who hasn't heard it. You slapped somebody in Myrtle Beach.

There was a dude heckling him and you started freestyling and in the midst of the freestyle, you smacked him. I'm like, wow. It didn't stop freestyling. Is there anything anybody could do now that could make you want to smack them?

I ain't even trying to get into that. It ain't worth it. you know what I mean? Unless you was doing something to my daughter or something that's going to offend my family like that, then otherwise, it's like, man, come on. People be saying certain things. A lot of people don't say nothing too crazy,

but if they say something, I'll be like, all right, all right, cool. They'll never say it to your face. It'll just be on social media. They'll see it in the wall show with your daughter and say something slick to them, but they're not going to say it. They ain't going to say it. Never say a dear face. That's real.

That's true. That's true. Now, why didn't y'all let Lettucey sing Take My Hand Precious? Let me say. Let me say. What fault was that? No, let me tell you. Like, first of all, it was like the Grammys put together the performance.

Right. And they choose, you know, who they want. And I don't think the idea, the idea wasn't even, I don't think the idea wasn't even, I don't think the idea was like Lettucey's or I did. That wasn't the idea. I think it was the Grammys about how they would place what they wanted Beyonce to do. That was between them. And they just said, yo, we're going to tie this in

with the whole glory and the Selma. We're giving a tribute to Selma. So, you know, Lettucey did her thing. Beyonce did her thing too, man. I was like, she dope. So it was never a choice, like, okay, look, you know, we want to sing this song, Lettucey did it in the movie,

we want Beyonce to do it at the Oscars. Yeah, no, that wasn't the idea. The idea was more that it came from the Grammys and maybe somebody in Beyonce's camp, so it was never like a choice. Gotcha. Yeah. Now, I feel like there's so many artists out

here that are like flash in the pan you know they might have a big single right now and not have the longevity that somebody like Common has had you know what is some advice that you could give people so that they can just keep on evolving because you definitely have evolved from the beginning of your career people considered you like you know an underground rapper to being somebody that just has evolved into, you know, what, Envy? He wants to give some free advice now. He wants free advice now. We charge for that now. No, no.

Come and give some advice to some of these up-and-coming artists so that they can know what do they need to do to be consistent and to stay relevant. Yeah, I mean, I think you can't be afraid to change sometimes. Like, say you came out saying one thing, we all grow. We all, like, evolve as human beings. She sound like your grandmother would be like, can you call that young boy? If you was on the phone with one of these kids right now.

I mean, too, it's like you kind of want to find your voice. Like, you don't want to just be imitating everybody else out there because you will be that run-of-the-mill artist that we just, you know, you hear and then they just fly by night. If you get something, bring something unique. Because even with Charlamagne saying, like, yo, man, we thought Yeezus was Ye's electric circus. Ye will bring you something each time

to make you keep you on your toes. Like, if you know, like, this artist is going to do the same thing and they on their fifth album, I thought, wow, you like, it's like a woman that ain't like, you know, y'all doing the same position every time.

You know, you want to flip it. You know what I mean? There you go, back to sex. Holy Oscar. No, Carmen was saying he doesn't have a girlfriend to celebrate his birthday with on Friday, so you're going to spend it with the team. Yeah, I'm spending it with the team.

You know, I'm a single guy right now. Life is great. Speaking of sex, how does it feel to watch Taraji every Wednesday on Empire? Do you watch Empire? That's your old boo. I mean, I don't watch Empire all the time. Not because the show is funny, man.

I love it, man. It's a good show. But I don't really watch TV that much, to be honest. But did you see the episode when she walked out and her ass was out? No, but Taraji doing her thing. That's one thing I got to say. I did see when she beat her son with a broom. I was like, man, she going in.

Yo, people love her. I got more power. I'm saying more power to her. She doing her thing. And they in my hometown. So they honing it down. She came to this festival we had called the iFest where I had like Ye perform and Lupe and Lil Herb. It was like a festival for Chicago.

We was raising money for our programs and stuff, Ye's program and everything. Yeah, shout out to Rhymefest too because he was really behind a lot of that. You say you're single, but you seem like you're letting some good ones get away, Kyle. I know, it's been some good ones. Raji, Serena.

Hey, man, I mean. Kerry Washington. She put Kerry Washington on the list, right? That's a good one. But I'm saying all these women are doing great, huge things. You got to trap one of them. It's kind of like once your day come and you go on to become like. Hey, man, I'm elevated.

I'm elevated. You want to blow up. I elevate them. Serena had a lot of stuff before me. She was popping. But I elevate them. That's all it is of stuff before me. She was popping. But I elevate them. That's all it is. Yeah, they get hit TV shows afterwards.

Do they all text you? Like, when you won the Oscar, did you look through your phone? It was like, Carrie, Taraji. I mean, they definitely give love. Taraji, she done tweeted it before. After the Golden Globes, she gave us a shout out. That's the one thing. I ain't end off on no bad notes.

Everybody still likes you. Yeah, that's love. Okay. Now, how close are you to playing Green Lantern, man? Man, I'm hoping that it happens because, like, I know they rebooting the Justice League, and if they decide to do, like, that Green Lantern with Jon Stewart, the black version, man, I'm hoping they come to me.

I'm definitely going to fight for the role. Are you getting any calls? Or are you just putting it out there? No, I'm doing two other movies that I'm hoping they come to me. I'm definitely going to fight for the role. Are you getting any calls? Or are you just putting it out there? No, I'm doing two other movies that I'm about to start. And then I'm producing and going to star in this TV show. But specifically for The Green Lantern, I ain't got no call. You got to fight Tyrese for that role. I know.

He's on Instagram with the costume on. Yeah, I ain't mad at him. Go for it. What's this TV show? This TV show is, I can't really talk all about it, but it's dope. I'm the lead of it, and it's like, it's going to be real good. It's not another empire, is it? No, no, no.

It's something you pitched? Yeah, it's something we put together. Is it based on your life? No, no, it's more, it's going to be based in a world that y'all going to love. It's really dope. I'm the lead, and we producing it. It's going to be dope. You still love music? It seems like you love. It's really dope. I'm the lead and we producing it. It's gonna be dope. You still love music?

It seems like you love the acting and the movies. You still love music? Yeah, man, I love music. You just want to ask him for glory. I love music. It was part of a movie that he was in.

Yeah, but you know, I ain't gonna front. I do like writing music for different things. Like now, when I'm working on a project where I want to like, I'm gonna make a short film to it and maybe eventually like put it on

Broadway or something like I like having thinking of doing music in different ways so um yeah I love doing music though man it's like man every time I get around like when we rapping and Cassie and some dope rhymes I'll be like yeah that's all nice it pressure to win an Oscar for acting? I don't think it's pressure, but I want to do that. I want to get, like, a Grammy. I got the Grammys. I want to get an Oscar. I want an Emmy.

And I want a Tony. It's like it's called the EGOT. And it's only a few people that ever walked the earth that have done that. So that's one of my goals. You got a Golden Globe for Oscar and a Grammy. Yeah, I got the Golden Globe, Oscar, and a Grammy. But, you know, the Tony Award, I mean, I would have to win doing theater. And then Emmy, I would have to win for something on TV.

So you going for it? I'm going for it. You went from, can I borrow a dollar to mama, I want an Oscar. Yes. Like, you weren't thinking about none of this growing up in Chicago. Nah, man. I mean, that's the thing about it. It's like, I just wanted to be heard as an emcee I wanted like KRS-One and and De La Soda to know who I am

like be coming to New York rocking shows and then it just kept growing. There wasn't a respect for Chicago artists back then? I mean no no it wasn't I mean we Twista was the first artist out and then I came next and we we had to we had to fight to get that respect That's why I even named the album Can I Buy a Dollar? Because I was saying, can we get our respect? Can we get some love? But then, you know, eventually as I became an actor, I was like, man, I want an Oscar. I want an Oscar.

I was thinking about that. And who would have known I would have got it through music, but I wouldn't have wanted it no other way than to be up there representing with Glory and Selma. You know, of course I would like to get it as an actor too, but for us to be able to say, look, man, we up there representing with Glory and Selma. You know, of course I would like to get it as an actor too, but for us to be able to say, look, man, we up there representing this,

like, you know, the movement, like, and hip-hop. What was that term where you went from music and said, I want to start acting? That was like, that was around the electric circus time. Like, I was like, it was a little before, like, electric circus, but I just was getting bored with hip-hop. I was like, I got to do something else. And I'd already been into, I did some plays when I was younger.

But then when I did the play, my mother and everybody wasn't saying, like, I was fresh. So I just stopped acting. But then I just decided I started taking classes, man. I was going to classes, being on tour. I would come home and just take classes. And then I started going on auditions. I just loved acting, and I was like, man, this is something I really feel like I feel music.

I feel just as passionate about it. Do you ever look at some of your old audition tapes? Oh, man, I look at some of my old films I've been in and be like, damn, I could have did better. Just Right was dope, though. I don't care what nobody said. You must have been just right. That's my joint.

I can tell you. You always talk about this. I know, but I'm saying. I'm just right, man. Yeah, thank you, man. Thank you. Out of every movie. When that girl tries to come back to you after you got hit, I'm like, F that bitch comment.

Let's get back with her. Which one do you look at and you're like, man, I could have did better? Just right. That's why when Charlamagne said it, I was like, damn. I'm like, that's right, man. Wait, what was that movie you were in with Alicia Keys? You were carrying her up the stairs? Smoking Ace. That was a good movie. That was the first movie. That was a, damn. Wait, what was that movie you were in with Alicia Keys? You were carrying her up the stairs? Smoke and Ace.

That was a good one. That was the first movie I did. And the first movie Alicia did. So we was rocking that one together. But just write a movie. I think I could have did better. And I was in the Terminator. I could have did better than that.

But hey, I'm living and learning. I'm growing. Do you ever go back and listen to Electric Circus and be like, yeah, they was right. This one is hot. Hey, man. I still stand on Electric Circus. I still stand for that.

I think it's part of my whole body of work. And I feel like you got to get that sometimes. Think about it. You like, man, you ain't coming with it all day and wolves. It's almost like you got to go down and go up. You know, even if that down ain't down to you, people still looking like, well, I ain't like that as much. But you bringing something back to them.

Because you came with B, so you got to hear what everybody's saying. Yeah. That motivates you to come with it. Oh, for sure. Yeah, I definitely was like, yo, because people was writing me off like, yo, you know, it's over for him, you know. So I was like, I'm about to show y'all and get it when I got to rhyme on Get Him High. That was the beginning for me. Like we was like, that was a new beginning.

How's your relationship with No I.D. now? That's my man. That's my guy. Like he produced the whole last album, Nobody Smiling. And I'm on his label, Ardium. So, you know, and Def Jam is I'm on Def Jam so and that's just my brother you know I didn't know him since fourth grade so it's just

a bond it ain't it can't be separated it was for a little while though it was it was but we grown men now so it's like you go through that you know how many friendships go through that sometimes and the fact that we came you know came back together and we rocking together that's amazing yeah I always wonder were you raised by a village was it your mom your pops

everybody yeah it was my mother was strong there my father i didn't grow up around but you know he was um still present in my life and uh his words meant a lot and you know the time i did get to spend with him my stepfather and, and then just being in Chicago, you know, the group of guys I grew up around, that was part of the village. And then, you know, next door neighbors, you know. Like, for the Oscars, my mother brought out about 25 people that we all grew up with. And they all, you know, we celebrated.

Like, we had a barbecue before the Oscars. The night after the Oscars, we had a dinner. I brought the Oscar. They all was, like, taking a picture. They was geeking. I know you were like, I can't get everybody in the club, though. No, I couldn't take them all. You asked me, but I couldn't take them all.

Y'all not going to the Vanity Fair party. Yeah, exactly, exactly. I ask that because you've always been conscious. You've always been a gentleman. You know what I'm saying? I wondered, like, what's the cause of that? It definitely is a village. And my grandmother and my uncle stepped in, too.

My uncles was like, yo. One of my uncles, God bless his soul, my Uncle Charles, he would always be like, man, you're going to do something. You're going to do something. That kind of gave me some fuel. And I always say this. I think if you haven't read it, you should read Common's autobiography. It was a really great read.

You learn a lot about how he was raised and everything. you i'm actually working on a new book too oh really yeah um we we're developing it now but it's not going to be you know like a memoir it's going to be about different subjects yeah so i'm going to advice from yeah advice you know a little you know like perspective i'll say too yeah you know Based on your own experience. Yeah. Okay. You think you'll ever drop the comment altogether? Because you went from common sense to comment. Now you got Oscars and Golden Globes. You think you'll just be Lonnie?

Nah, nah. You know, I love Lonnie because that's my father's name, too, so I'm carrying that. But, nah, comment. You know, I done worked hard with this, so, you know, when people know me as that now, and they feel like, you know, I don't know, they feel connected to that, so I'm with it. We appreciate you joining us, man. Thanks for having me. Love when you come up here. Mr. Common, it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

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