Common To Drop New Album In November
(February 23rd)

According to MTV.com, the rapper/actor is currently in the studio recording and will release his new album entitled "The Believer" this November.

"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."

Along with his new album, Common has been in planning mode with Q-Tip for their collaborative project.

"Q-Tip and I been planning the Standard album," he said. "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."

Common can be seen in the up-coming films "Street Kings" with Keanu Reeves and The Game and "Wanted" starring Angelina Jolie.