Common Market Presents: Common Market LP

By Kirk Parker
Staff Writer
April 23, 2007

In a self-titled album, hip-hop inspired group, Common Market, represents the principles indicative in their name. Rather than rehashing partisan points of view, they open up a hip-hop discussion on a panoramic world level.

The group is a collaborative effort brought together by two rising stars of the genre; Sazbi, an up and coming record producer and R.A. Scion, a road dominate MC. Both are part of the Seattle, WA hip-hop scene and have performed on reputable stages such as the Sasquatch Festival and The Capitol Hill Block Party. As a group they’ve shared the stage with KRS-One, Zion I, Ghostface Killah and The Coup.

In catching the mind of KRS-One, they moved him to state, “they spit in the tradition, the conscious hip-hop movement.”

He then flew up to rock Common Market’s album release party in Seattle, bringing the group on tour with him on the Temple of Hip-Hop tour.

Common Market is a thinking person’s album. However, the posture listeners assume while listening might be a bob with the head and one fist raised defiantly in the air.

For more information about Common Market, visit their website at http://www.commonmarketmusic.com or their MySpace page, viewable at http://www.myspace.com/commonmarket.