The son of a former basketball player, the young Lonnie Lynn (aka Common) worked
for Chicago Bulls for a spell during his teens before emerging as one of
America's most popular rappers on the back of his 1992 debut single Take It EZ.
It reached Number 5 in the US rap charts, laying the groundwork for his first
album Can I Borrow A Dollar? His second album Resurrection (1994) - including
the single I Used To L.O.V.E. Her - is now widely regarded as a classic, and
features raps about growing up on Chicago's South Side and includes some of his
father's poetry. Common's raps were mor...