Common plays an uncommonly great 'Game'

[Contributor Casey Dolan can't stop "dancing like a butterfly":]

Common's first single, "The Game," from his upcoming album, "Finding Forever," is a churning track, with rhymes swooping in and out, syncopatingly seducing the listener like a prizefighter looking to land his blow. He may be a Chi-town native, but there's a New York feel to both the song and black and white video. Shades of Elia Kazan, John Cassavetes and John Frankenheimer, except edited by a DJ/mixer with ADD. You can smell the smoke and sweat. The track has a old school funky horn sample and one helluva beat that propels it from start to finish -- from the locker room mirror shots in the opening to the gauzy glaze of a packed club at video's finish. Kanye West produced the track and the great DJ Premier adds the scratching that serves as the basic fabric.

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[TheNazirOfLove]

Common AND Kanye? Must be a FAKERS convention in town