Common Freestyle Over Rahki Beat

Originally shot on April 26, 2005, using a Palm Treo 650 with the Qualcomm PureVoice™, MPEG-4 Video codec at 10fps. The source file was appended with a .3g2 file extension (mobile phone compression).

Who: Common, Rahki, Mark Webster, Larry Lucio, Ivan Davis, & Steve Roth
What: Here you see Common freestyling over a beat by Rahki where he worked each of our names (0:32) in to the lyrics (for example, he called me "Larry King", etc.)
Where: Universal Music Group, 7500 Office Ridge Circle, Eden Prarie, MN 55344
When: April 26th, 2005 5:12pm CST
Why: Common was on a retail tour to promote his 2005 LP "Be". This video takes place after he gave an amazing presentation to our staff at Universal Music Group.

Rahki won a GRAMMY in 2011: http://twitter.com/Rahki
Webster is Rahki's manager: http://twitter.com/MarkWebsterJr
Larry is the founder of Amplified Life http://twitter.com/LarryLucio

This video was originally posted on Google Video (here: http://goo.gl/sifrV) in 2006 but the audio no longer works at that link so I reposted it.

Category:

Music

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• Common
• Rahki
• Mark
• Webster
• Larry
• Lucio
• Universal
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• Eden
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• Minnesota
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• St.
• Paul
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• production
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• UMG
• UMVD
• IGA
• Interscope
• Geffen
• A&M
• Be
• 2005
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• GRAMMY
• Amplified
• Life
• AmplifiedLife
• LarryLucio

[LarryLucio]

I'm sorry to have screwed up this historic piece of footage by making stupid noises in the background while I was filming this.

I'm very embarrassed but the footage had to be shared anyway...