Prince plays guitar on a track called "Star *69" featuring Bilal.
http://story.news.yahoo.c...2katj.html

(10/30/02, 10 a.m. ET) -- Common's Electric Circus, due out on December 10 on MCA Records, boasts an all-star lineup of collaborators including Prince, Erykah Badu, Jill Scott, Mary J. Blige, ?uestlove from the Roots, and Sonny from P.O.D., among others.

The Neptunes and the Soulquarians (Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson, James Poyser, Pino Pallidino, and Jay Dee) handle the album's production.

Blige appears on the album's first single, "Come Close," produced by the Neptunes.

While Common's gold 2000 album Like Water For Chocolate explored more soulful, funk terrain, Electric Circus melds the Chicago bred rapper's rock and jazz influences. "I feel it's a fusion of new music," Common told LAUNCH about the album. "We try to create something new within hip-hop, and it became a fusion of all the influences that we have in our music, whether it be a Pink Floyd or Jimi Hendrix or the Beatles, whoever it may be. As I opened up to new music I was able to implement that into my music, and interpret it in my own way. So, it's definitely for me a blend of that. And Miles Davis's On The Corner. It's kinda a fusion of a lot of that."

The album's sequencing has not been finalized; however, the following songs are slated to appear on the record: "I Am Music," featuring Jill Scott; "I Got Da Right Ta," featuring Pharrell; "Come Close," featuring Mary J. Blige; "Ferris Wheel," featuring Vinia Mojica and Marie Daulne of Zap Mama; "Soul Power"; "Aquarius," featuring Erykah Badu and Bilal; "Heaven Somewhere," featuring Omar Lye-Fook, Cee-Lo, Bilal, Jill Scott, Mary J. Blige, Erykah Badu, Lonnie "Pops" Lynn; "Jimi Was A Rock Star," featuring Erykah Badu; "Between Me, You & Liberation," featuring Cee-Lo; "Electric Wire Hustle Flower," featuring Sunny from P.O.D.; "New Wave," featuring Laetitia Sadier; "Star *69 (PS With Love)," featuring Bilal and Prince on guitar; "The Hustle," featuring Omar Lye-Fook and Dart Chillz.

-- Billy Johnson (news) Jr., Los Angeles

Can't wait 2 hear it.
ONE LOVE

I can't wait to hearit either as I expect this album to be completely different than the albums Common has previously released.

"electric circus"

Now that's a title...

Imagine the costumes we all portray in our very souls...
Imagine the parachutes we use when we all get n2 trouble...
Imagine the victory when we make each other feel...
for on an electric circus...LIFE allways seems serreal...

If pondering a moment of everything U are...
Feel the presence of Lightness...when U look upon a star...
and in the moment of being U come upon yourself...
Remember how U held your light and brought about...the truth...for within your beauty of being...the electric circus SHINES THRU...

Written for those who SHINE the LIGHT on... 10/31/02
9:34am EST USA

SingMia~Arjuna

How to hold on2 a tope while flying thru the air with the greatest of ease lol"

PEACE B WITH U on this miraculous journey...

That's pretty cool

Sounds good.

Wow, a new album I'm actually anticipating picking up.

I like Common's 'new image'. Its very funky.

That's very odd, even more with a song called Star 69.

It's good to know that Prince is doing work with the
aptly (?) titled neo-soul movement. One thing I have to wonder, though - why is it that these artists can't carry entire albums by themselves. One, two or even three songs that feature talent outside the realm of the artist or group is fine; however, when every song on the album has feature artists, I think that diminishes the quality of the album and doesn't showcase the artist properly. If you're George Clinton, you can do this; otherwise, it's like the artist is saying, "Look who my friends are."

poetbear68 said:

co-sign...but not for the entire neo-soul movement...just for common...