Common Refuses to Watch Cassie Beating Video, Advocates For Love

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Common says he's not keeping up on news that brings bad energy, and that includes Diddy's videotaped beating of Cassie -- he's avoiding it altogether, and trying to focus on the positives in his own life.

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00:00Hey Common, wonderful to see you, how are you?

00:06You think that you might be proposing to Ms. Jihad any time soon?

00:09Man, I got a new album coming out.

00:12You do?

00:13I'm proposing to this music, like me and P-Rock got a new album.

00:17Oh really?

00:18Yeah, it's dropping.

00:19When do we expect it?

00:20In the summer.

00:21Okay.

00:22But right now it's a single coming out called Wise Up, so look out for that, I'm proposing

00:26to that.

00:27Can we just ask you one question, obviously you've seen the horrible stuff with B-Diddy,

00:32do you have any thoughts on that?

00:33I haven't seen it, I don't like looking at a lot of things that, you know, I don't watch

00:34videos of things that I feel are going to bring the right energy for me, but you know,

00:45God bless, God bless to me, I don't watch those, so I can't, you know, I'm about love,

00:55you know that, I'm about peace, I'm about respecting human beings, that's one thing,

01:02no matter who you are, I feel like that's something that I demand and expect and want

01:09to be.

01:10Do you feel like he should get a second chance in music, or should we not be listening to

01:16him anymore?

01:17Can I say this, I don't have authority, I'm a child of God, so I don't believe it, I have

01:24the position of power to judge or decide if someone deserves this or not, that's between

01:33the creator and them, you know, I just try to be as good a person as I can be and be

01:38as loving and respectful to others, and I'm not perfect, but I try to be, like, look out

01:44for that new music, keep spreading love, we need love out here, you know.

01:49Thank you Common!

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