Looks like rapper turned actor Common is in trouble for his music/words again. This time he has upset legendary poet Maya Angelou!
According to reports, Maya is upset that she is featured on a song that uses the N-Word and other profane words. The song, “The Dreamer” is featured on Common’s newest album, The Dreamer/The Believer 
and is a motivational song about achieving your dreams. However, Maya didn’t realize her poem would be used on that particular song.
She told the NY POST:
——- “I had no idea that Common was using the piece we had done together on [a track] in which he also used the ‘N’ word numerous times. “I’m surprised and disappointed. I don’t know why he chose to do that. I had never heard him use that [word] before. I admired him so because he wasn’t singing the line of least resistance. ——-
Common also spoke to the post and admitted that he didn’t tell her she would be used on that particular song, 
but she knows that he uses the N-Word.
——- “She knows I do use the word,” he told The Post. “She knows that’s part of me. I told her what ‘The Dreamer’ was about and what I wanted to get across to people,” he says. “I wanted young people to hear this and feel like they could really accomplish their dreams.” ——-
According to Common, they have agreed to disagree on the subject. If you remember earlier this year, Common was under fire for being invited to perform poetry at the White House because of his past songs/poems that talked negatively about America and past Presidents (READ STORY HERE).
LOL the nypost is not a good source at all.
I agree with her. I was turned off of that ‘Celebrate’ song the second I heard him say the first ‘nigga.’ I will be happy when the African American community completely evolves past using that word and phases it out of our cultural vocabulary. I immediately think less of any person who I hear use it – can’t help it, that’s just my gut reaction.
Let’s just murder the n-word! It’s such a horrible word for anyone to use.
Oh please. Maya was at the welcome home party for convicted rapist Mike Tyson. This, after making a big deal out of being a rape victim. Now all of sudden she has such delicate sensibilites. *rolls eyes* Common calls bullshit. So do I.
Me 2
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i call Bs as well…I’ve been listening to common for well over 15 years…him using the word is nothing new…So if she is shocked after hearing him use the word then she wasn’t very familiar with his work in the first place…And why would you represent for someone you are not familiar with? I understand her issue…but i don’t know how she wasn’t aware of who she was dealing with.