Common’s latest project, the new AMC series “Hell on Wheels” premiered last weekend. The show is AMC’s new Western series, and Common plays an ex-slave named Elam Ferguson who is working on the transcontinental railroad in Nebraska. In December, Common is expected to release his ninth studio album, “The Dreamer, The Believer”. The actor/rapper was interviewed […]
http://s2smagazine.com/stories/2011/11/new-role-teaches-common-about-slavery Although he did a good bit of research for his role as Elam in AMC’s “Hell on Wheels,” rapper Common said some of it came naturally. “I did a heavy-duty amount of research into our history and the history of African people once we arrived on the shores of America. But I must […]