Exclusive! Common Explains His Vision for Hip Hop (Throwback) (@common)

In this throwback clip from 92.3 The Beat's DJ Julio G, Common weighs in the state of hip hop. The Chicago rapper feels that hip hop is where it should be, but like anything else there are going to be mistakes made by both artists and fans alike as the art form grows and evolves.

"The mistakes we're making as artists and as fans, we're allowed to do that because we aren't perfect," he says.

Common then explains that he envisions a balance in hip hop where thugs can listen to pro-black, conscious rap, and vice versa.

"We need both sides of it because that's how life is, you know?," the rapper tells Julio.