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Although his latest album "Finding Forever" isn't too far back on the shelves , Common has already began recording a follow up. The new album is titled "The Believer" and with a little luck, Common won't have to compete against Kanye West in next year's Grammy Awards.

"I'm looking around November," he told MTV News of the release date of his follow-up to last year's Finding Forever. "I'm working on a new album called The Believer. I'm just getting in the mode. I been touring a lot and been working on verses here and there. Now, I'm starting to get focused on the album, letting it take its shape. And at the same time [I'll] be working on films, God willing."
How he can simultaneously record a new album while working on so many movie projects is anyones guess. Common has three films in the works as we speak, including "Street Kings" with Keanu Reeves and The Game. Then theres the assassin movie "Wanted" with Angelina Jolie, and finally the new "Justice League" movie where Common will play the Green Lantern.
If that schedule wasn't impressive enough, Common and Q-Tip may have a joint album in the future. "Q-Tip and I been planning the Standard album," he said, referring to the duo the pair have formed. "We been conceptualizing, but we just gotta continue to work on it. We will. I look at it like two jazz musicians getting together, the way Charlie Parker and cats would get together and do work. I feel a lot more free with my music now that I'm doing films and stuff, because I don't put as much pressure on the music. It ain't my only source of income and way to make a living."
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