On my car ride home from work yesterday I flip on the radio and they're playing Common's "Sixth Sense." Like everyone else, I love that joint. Then after the song, the host comes on talking about how Common played Soundset and it's great to see "old school" acts at the festival doing their thing and whoopty-woo.

But, I can't accept Common as old school. I know his first album came out 24 years ago. He's been in the game for a long ass time now, but, I also refuse to put him in the same category that I put Kurtis Blow in. He does not belong lumped in with Sugar Hill Gang, or even Kane. That's old school to me. Common certainly ain't new, but this dichotomy between new school and old school just doesn't work for me. At what point does any artist even transition into being "old school." When does Jay-Z become "old school"? Kanye? J. Cole?

Basically, we need some new categories.

I'm the only one that feels this way?

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