Since debuting as Common Sense in 1992, Lonnie Rashid Lynn, Jr. has spoken his mind and searched for new sounds. The nostalgic breakthrough single “I Used to Love H.E.R.” cemented him as a leading voice of the nascent conscious rap movement. Ambitious collaborations with the production collective The Soulquarians on 2000's Like Water For Chocolate and 2002's Electric Circus showed a uniquely fearless, adventurous artist more interested in complex feelings and experimental sonics than hits. And his later work with Kanye West brought Common closer to the mainstream as an elder statesman.