Several rappers in the UK are not happy with Common following his comments regarding interracial relationships made during a magazine interview. In response, Rising Son, Yungun and Doc Brown have recorded “Dear Common (The Corner Dub),” which calls the Chicago rapper, among other things, a “racist b*tch.”
In the interview with Touch magazine to promote his new album “Be,” Common voiced his disapproval of mixed race relationships and frowned upon blacks with dreadlocks dating white women, stating that those men would be "going against what the dreadlock's purpose was." The three UK MCs, all of mixed race, took much offense.
“There was all this sh*t he was talking in there about mixed race couples and how it’s wrong and I was just like, ‘Nah man, he can’t really say that.’ There’s mixed race people out there, that’s wrong,” Rising Son told the web site The Situation. “So I called up Doc Brown and Yungun and said, ‘My man’s slating our race!’ So they went away and wrote their verses and I was like, ‘I’m gonna deal with him on his own track.’”
Snatching Common’s beat from his recent single “The Corner,” Rising says on the first verse: “Rastafarianism doesn’t promote separatism/ I know white women who have converted to the religion/ They recognize African history as the truth so be it/ My father used to take me twelve tribes meetings, I used to see it.”
Rising also refers to Common as a "racist bitch" and spits, "I predict the future is mixed/Marking the end of all this racism sh*t."
Yungun says on his verse: "Black and white used to drink from different taps/ And you should know 'cause your album had a picture of that/ So when you say that you're showing how a hypocrite acts/ Now I ain't dissing this cat, I'm only spitting the facts."
