# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/common
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:48:58.929Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/common"
name: "Common"
slug: "common"
description: "Lonnie Rashid Lynn, known professionally as Common, is an American rapper, actor and activist. The recipient of three Grammy Awards, an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Golden Globe Award, he signed with the independent label Relativity Records at the age of 20. The label released his first three studio albums: Can I Borrow a Dollar? (1992), Resurrection (1994) and One Day It'll All Make Sense (1997). He maintained an underground following into the late 1990s, and achieved mainstream success through his work with the Black music collective Soulquarians."
tagline: "American rapper and actor (born 1972)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Common_-_2018_(41963868844)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1972-03-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           76.14
  momentum:             0
  historical:           26.69188
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     95
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 502000
platforms:
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/thinkcommon"
    handle:    "thinkcommon"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/common/"
    handle:    "common"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://thinkcommon.com"
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/common"
    handle:    "common"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0996669/"
    handle:    "nm0996669"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/2GHclqNVjqGuiE5mA7BEoc"
    handle:    "2GHclqNVjqGuiE5mA7BEoc"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBGDlQIq1hx5nSTIpWTsGAQ"
    handle:    "@common"
    followers: 502000
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_(kletsrymer)"
    title: "Common (kletsrymer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%88%D9%85%D9%86"
    title: "كومن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%88%D9%85%D9%86"
    title: "كومن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%86_(%D8%B1%D9%BE%D8%B1)"
    title: "کامن (رپر)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common"
    title: "Common"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_(rapper)"
    title: "Common (rapper)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common"
    title: "Common"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_(rapper)"
    title: "Common (rapper)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common"
    title: "Common"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common"
    title: "Common"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%86_(%D8%B1%D9%BE%D8%B1)"
    title: "کامن (رپر)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common"
    title: "Common"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common"
    title: "Common"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%9F"
    title: "קומון"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common"
    title: "Common"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common"
    title: "Common"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common"
    title: "Common"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common"
    title: "Common"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B3%E3%83%A2%E3%83%B3"
    title: "コモン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_(%E1%83%A0%E1%83%94%E1%83%9E%E1%83%94%E1%83%A0%E1%83%98)"
    title: "Common (რეპერი)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%BD%94%EB%A8%BC_(%EB%9E%98%ED%8D%BC)"
    title: "코먼 (래퍼)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common"
    title: "Common"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_(rapper)"
    title: "Common (rapper)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common"
    title: "Common"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common"
    title: "Common"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Common_(rapper)"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/c0a1179b-b14a-4d68-a3c1-1fdab16ed602"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q286022"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4238"
    title: "Common"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump