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Five bucks says longtime rap fans got chills when they first heard Common and Pete Rock were working on a project. Chicago’s most poetic OG connecting with the revered Mt. Vernon hero behind “They Reminisce Over You”? C’mon, that’s an event. And maybe those chills became a bit more pronounced when the same fans heard “Wise Up,” the first volley from the forthcoming ‘The Auditorium Vol. 1.’. Boom bap echoes with a 2024 sheen, the track, and its very cool video, arrive with an old school gravitas driven by a modern sense of kinetics. “We don’t have to reach to make it sound like a throwback,” says Common. “We don’t have to reach to try to make it sound like it’s new and young. We’ve just got to be who we are and do what we love.” As is often the case, the Chicago MC's rhymes push a posi spirit while taking an unflinching look at the culture. No wonder he references being a “sleuth for the truth.” Can’t tell for sure, but it sounds like Rock’s got a sample from ‘The Odd Couple’ TV show theme smoothing out the track's refrain. The collab itself reminds that their individual aesthetics fit quite nicely, and when they came into our studio to share “Dreamin’," you could feel camaraderie driving the action, “from the stellar regions of the soul…”

Executive Producer: JP Evangelista
Executive Producer: Chris Pereira
Creative Director, Production: Liz Hart
Director: Skyler Brown
Director, Line Production: Yanina Molina
Producer: Stacey Branson
Producer: Ronni Leverich
Director of Photography: Jake Vriezelaar
Steadicam: Ryan Toussieng
AC: Kyle Isler
Gaffer: Elliott Travis
Associate Creative Director: Brian Parisi
Graphic Design: Keith Wright
Editor: Kevin Rose
Director of Post Production: Michael Colman
Project Manager, Post Production: Dominic Siri
Music & Talent: Cynthia Todd + David McTiernan + Jordan Glickson

Lyrics
Daydreaming and I’m thinking of you

Baby we can do it
Take your time do it right
I was hearing melodies and rhythms through the night
This was a dream that felt real, like a fight
What made it real was J Dilla was there in the light
A movement was happenin
H Brown was rappin it
Kool G and Polo talkin bout they back again
I seen Prince, he was time travelin
Through the Morris Day and Gladys Knights
Sheila E reminded me about the glamorous life
Ali was tellin me why he had to fight
The struggle he never left so we could have our rights
Biggie and Prodigy told me to grab the mic
I was shook
Ain’t no such thing cause when I touch dreams they become things
As the sun beams
I seen Queens like Latifah, Chaka, as I daydream with Aretha

It was all a dream
I was talking to Dr King
He told me to dream in ways that the prophets dream
Like the one he had when nobody could wake him
Or Nelson Mandela when prison couldn’t break him
Malcolm was in the window
He said As Salamu Alaykum
Told Barak to rock the nation again
He got my nomination
The population in prison was labeled as forgiven
This was a God dream
Hip hop was our religion
Stevie’s vision of ribbons in the sky
It’s the good life we was livin in the Chi
Seen Trugoy the Dove he begin to fly
Told him Pos and Mase De La will never die
Me and Yasiin was holdin rappers at bay
One, two checkin niggas like back in the day
that when Dr Angelou told me I should sing
A caged bird with brave words for higher things I got wings

Daydreamin and I’m thinkin of you
I was sittin by myself, thats what drinkin will do
I was nice, nice as I escaped the mean world
I’m tellin you, you the supreme, dream girl
If could interpret the way Joseph did dreams,
Then every one would be as close as it seems
Whether I’m with a woman or a microphone,
Ajile told me to dream but write my own

#Common #PeteRock #Dreamin'

Music video by Common, Pete Rock performing Dreamin' (Live Session). © 2024 Common and Pete Rock., Under exclusive license to Loma Vista Recordings. Distributed by Concord.