As we inch closer to the July 12th release of legendary and iconic Chicago emcee Common’s highly-anticipated collaboration album, The Auditorium Vol. 1, with legendary and iconic producer, Pete Rock. The duo gives us yet another preview of the new album with their newest single, All Kind of Ideas. A very soulful breakbeat that samples/references Eric B. & Rakim. Which has not only Pete Rock producing, but also featured on the track with a very solid opening verse of, ”I’m soul brother uno. Black from the future. Make beats on the table if I break my computer. Still make hits like I used to. Keep your top 5, I’m God’s favorite producer.” To kick things off.
Common & Pete Rock also debuting through Vevo, a colorful new Marleaux Desiré-directed accompanying video for the track. Which sees them in the studio recording, making and performing the track. As Common spits such standout bars as, ”Rack focus to the Black Moses. That’s light skinned. A dawn like when the night end. The multi-hyphened. My stipend was ripened from Chi to Big Apple. On the mic I’m Micah Parsons. Any subject I tackle. And grapple with wack dudes. And school n***as like black schools. Cause they lack rules.” That shows why he’s still one of the illest emcees and lyricist’s to ever touch a mic. Speaking of which, Black Thought, also making a cameo in the video for the track.