Common sits down with men’s magazine Details and discusses his upcoming memoir, One Day It’ll All Make Sense, as he reflects on life and offers a behind-the-scenes look at his as a hip-hop star, actor and activist, also opening up about how he almost quit rapping after his first album, Can I Borrow a Dollar?, sold only 2,000 copies.
My manager approached me with the idea. The acting roles were picking up, and I was just becoming more assertive and more defined as a man, and I had accomplished some things that needed telling. But at first, I was like, “No, man, this is something older people do.”
In addition to the book, which will be published September 13, Common is also gearing up for his ninth album, The Dreamer, The Believer, due out November 22. But that’s not all; his new TV show on AMC, Hell on Wheels, which is set during the building of the Transcontinental Railroad, will premiere on Sunday, November 6 at 10 EST. Common, the first actor to be cast in the series, will play a freed slave named Elam Ferguson who heads out west seeking work on the railroad as well as his place in the world. Check out the series trailer below.
Hell on Wheels Trailer
