Los Angeles Film Festival: Exclusive Interview with Artist in Residence and 'Wanted' Star Common
By Emily Christianson, Hollywood.com Staff
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Friday, June 20, 2008
HW: Your new album is coming out in August. What can you tell us about it?
Common: Invincible Summer is the name of it and it's produced by The Neptunes and Mr. DJ. Mr. DJ worked with Outkast on Bombs over Baghdad and he also did Ms. Jackson. This album is like really new for Common. It's really a fresh sound. I was overseas, internationally going out to clubs after shows and having to appear at after parties and I really got to see people enjoy themselves on a global perspective and I thought, “Man, I want my music to have people dancing and shaking their booties like this.” So I really created some music organically with me and The Neptunes and Mr. DJ that really is feel good music and fun music. Common is known for thoughtful lyrics and that's who I am as a person too, but I can also make some fun, feel good stuff and I think that's what this album is.
HW: Are you going to tour with that?
Common: Yeah. I think I'm going to tour with NERD. I love them. They're new album is out now and they're great…I think it'd be international. I think it'd be late September.
Wanted opens nationwide on June 27, 2008
Photo: Common (Daily Celeb)