Too Bad

Whatever

Well, my current favorite rapper might just be my former favorite rapper. Common, who has always had lyrics with some controversial social commentary, has stated in an interview his distaste for interracial dating.

While in London promoting Be a couple of months back, he discussed his disapproval of mixed race relationships in an interview with London magazine, Touch, where he criticized blacks with dreadlocks for dating white women, stating that those men would be "going against what the dreadlock's purpose was."

This is disappointing, but all the more disappointing given that Common had gone from a homophobic rapper, to one of the few rappers that discussed homosexuality in his songs, his own personal difficulty coming to terms with a gay friend, and his eventual acceptance of his friend. It was quite a change of heart. And all the more important that he publicly revealed his torment in his art. I can only hope he opens his mind up a little more.