First Listen: August Greene, 'August Greene'
August Greene, the supergroup featuring Common, Karriem Riggins and Robert Glasper, peers at the state of the black union through a jazzy, hip-hop lens.
"As we go into the well of the black pool of genius," Common intones during the opening bars of August Greene. It's a fitting incantation for a time in which black culture increasingly defines America's pop consciousness, even as black people are defiled by the sociopolitical will of a restless nation.
This is where August Greene comes in. The supergroup and its self-titled album are both spawned from an award-winning collaboration. The resulting award made the Chi's native son, Common, the only rapper one Antoinette Perry Award shy of attaining an EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony).
