COMMON TO RELEASE NEW ALBUM LET LOVE ON AUGUST 30
SHARES NEW SINGLE AND MUSIC VIDEO HERCULES FEATURING SWIZZ BEATZ
KICKS OFF LET LOVE TOUR WITH STOPS IN VANCOUVER ON JULY 16 AND TORONTO ON AUGUST 7
Toronto, ON – July 11, 2019 – GRAMMY® Award-winning rapper Common will release his new album Let Love on August 30, his debut for Loma Vista Recordings Pre-order it here.
In tandem with this announcement, he shared his latest single and music video entitled, Hercules [feat. Swizz Beatz]. On the track, he serves up his sharp signature wordplay between soulful backing vocals from Swizz Beatz. Meanwhile, the music video, directed by Carrick [Weezer], sees Common thwart a convenience store robbery caught on surveillance camera—in between rapping into his iPhone. Vince Staples makes a cameo as the cashier. Watch the action unfold here.
Hercules follows on the heels of the recent single, HER Love, featuring Daniel Caesar, special guest Dwele, and an unreleased beat from J Dilla. Not only did the song amass over 1 million cumulative streams and 339K views on the Savanah Leaf-directed music video within a week, but it also received widespread critical acclaim, with VIBE calling the song “a State of the Rap Union as he addresses the rise and expansion of hip-hop throughout the past 25 years.” Rolling Stone added that it was "Common's homage to hip-hop" and OkayPlayer professed that it's "his most impactful body of work yet."
About the album, he shared, “This album is inspired by the book, Let Love Have The Last Word, which gave me a path to write about things I had never written about before. It forced me to go deeper and because I opened up about so many things in the book, I was charged to go to raw, personal and spiritual places in the music. Production-wise, I knew that the music had to have depth, soul and dimension to it. I wanted the musicianship and the spirit of what live music brings but it also had to have something raw and basement about it. When my team said, ‘You should do some music revolving around the book’, I just took that energy and went running into my artistry without focusing on anything else. No movies, no commercials, no parties (well, I don’t do that too much anyway) and I just worked on music. So this album is the culmination of this journey, this passion and this Divine Love that I have for one of GOD's greatest gifts - MUSIC.”
Additionally, Common will kick off his Let Love Tour, which starts in Denver, Colorado at Cervantes’ Masterpiece Ballroom tonight and continues through marquee venues in the US and Canada, with stops in Vancouver and Toronto, before touring Europe for the first time since 2014. Special guests include Nicole Bus, from July 11 to July 26, and Maimouna Youssef, aka Mumu Fresh, from August 7 to August 29. Each pair of tickets on the second leg of tour dates will come with new music—details to be emailed to ticket holders.
Get tickets here, and be on the lookout for more soon. The official digital and CD release date is August 30, 2019, with vinyl to follow on October 11, 2019.
LET LOVE TRACKLIST:
1. Good Morning Love feat. Samora Pinderhughes
2. HER Love feat. Daniel Caesar w/special guest Dwele
3. Dwele's Interlude
4. Hercules feat. Swizz Beatz
5. Fifth Story feat. Leikeli47
6. Forever Your Love feat. BJ The Chicago Kid
7. Leaders (Crib Love) feat. A-Trak
8. Memories of Home feat. BJ The Chicago Kid and Samora Pinderhughes
9. Show Me That You Love feat. Jill Scott and Samora Pinderhughes
10. My Fancy Free Future Love
11. God Is Love feat. Leon Bridges and Jonathan McReynolds
TOUR DATES:
July 11 - Denver, CO – Cervantes’ Masterpiece Ballroom
July 12 - Salt Lake City, UT – The Gallivan Center
July 13 - Garden City, Idaho – Revolution Concert House
July 14 - Seattle, WA – The Moore
July 16 - Vancouver, BC – Commodore Ballroom
July 17 - Troutdale, OR – McMenamins Edgefield
July 18 - Saratoga, CA – The Mountain Winery
July 20 - Las Vegas, NV – Reynolds Hall at the Smith Center
July 21 - Phoenix, AZ – The Van Buren
July 24 - Los Angeles, CA – The Theatre at Ace Hotel
July 26 - Newport Beach, CA – The Hyatt Regency Newport Beach
August 7 - Toronto, ON – Queen Elizabeth Theatre
August 8 - Detroit, MI – The Fillmore Detroit
August 9 - Cleveland, OH – Agora Theatre
August 10 - Covington, KY – Madison Theater*
August 11 - McKees Rocks, PA – Roxian Theater
August 14 - Washington, DC – Warner Theatre
August 15 - Mashantucket, CT – Fox Theatre
August 16 - Philadelphia, PA – The Fillmore Philadelphia
August 20 - Wilmington, NC – Greenfield Lake Amphitheater
August 21 - Columbia, SC – Township Auditorium
August 22 - Nashville, TN – Ryman Auditorium
August 23 - Charlotte, NC – Belk Theater
August 27 - Austin, TX – ACL Live at the Moody Theater*
August 28 - Dallas, TX – Bomb Factory
August 29 - Kansas City, MO – Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts
September 7 - Oslo Norway – Sentrum Scene
September 8 - Copenhagen, Denmark – VEGA
September 10 - London, England – O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire
September 12 - Manchester, England – O2 Ritz
September 14 - Paris, France – Elysée Montmartre
September 15 - Cologne, Germany – Carlswerk
September 16 - Berlin, Germany – Astra
September 18 - Utrecht, Holland – Ronda
September 19 - Belgium, Gent – Vooriut
*No Maimouna Youssef aka Fresh
WATCH – HERCULES: found.ee/Common_HerculesVideo
WATCH – HER Love: fanlink.to/bRTg
ABOUT COMMON:
Common is an artist, actor, activist and, most recently, a New York Times best-selling author with the release of his latest memoir, Let Love Have The Last Word. With a storied career spanning three decades, his work has been recognized with numerous GRAMMY® Awards, an Emmy® Award, as well as a Golden Globe® and an Academy® Award for the song, Glory, which he co-wrote and performed with John Legend. He recently finished work on a new album that is slated for release later this year.
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