Common Details Life for Blacks in America on ‘Sway in the Morning’ Freestyle

Common's rhymes are as sharp as ever. The Chicago native stopped by Sway in the Morning and was prompted to kick a freestyle during the appearance. With Milkbone's classic "Keep It Real" beat at his playground, Common wowed Sway with a freestyle focused on the black experience in America.

"Hot damn, Black America again/Think of Sandra Bland as I'm staring in the wind/The color of my skin, they comparing it to sin/The darker it gets the less fairer it has been/The hate that hate made I inherited from them/But I ain't gon point the finger, we got anointed singers/Like Nina, Marvin, Billie, Stevie/Need to hear them songs, sometimes to believe me/Who freed me, Lincoln or Cadillac/Drinking or battle raps/Or is it God's speed that we travel at/Endangered in our own habitats/Them guns and dope man, y'all can have it back/As of matter of fact, we them lab rats/You built the projects for, now want your hood back/I guess if you could rap, you would express it too/That PTSD, we need professionals," Common raps.

Common wanted to keep it going too as he kicked a second verse that had the Sway in the Morning staff in awe. Sway told Common that the rapper never lets him down. The radio veteran recalled that he's been asking the Chicago MC to rap for 20 years and Common has never turned it down. And why would he? When you got this kind of skill, it's only right to showcase it. If this freestyle is a sign of what fans will hear on Common's new album, it sounds like listeners are in for a treat.

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