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Common Market was a hip hop duo based in Seattle, Washington and active from 2005 through 2009. Both members, RA Scion and Sabzi, had been active hip hop artists in the Pacific Northwest for three years before they combined their talents in 2005 to form Common Market.〔(Details published in the ''Seattle Post-Intelligencer'' )〕 Together they released two albums and two EPs. ==Collaboration and first album== Sabzi started his career as DJ and producer in another hip hop duo, Blue Scholars. RA Scion gained musical skill while in Zambia, but later began a solo career, playing a new style of hip hop with a spiritual message, inspired by his membership in the Bahá'í Faith.〔 RA Scion and Sabzi's paths crossed through their Bahá'í contacts, and their political and spiritual approach to hip-hop music. After collaborating on a pair of tracks on RA Scion’s 2004 solo project, ''Live and Learn'', the duo began working in an attic-based studio for what would eventually become the 14-track self-titled debut, released in October 2005. An advance copy caught the ear of KRS-One, who praised the album and RA Scion for “spitting in the tradition of the conscious hiphop movement.”〔According to (this ) review by Keith Adam, this quote is on a sticker on the album's cover.〕 KRS-One then drove up to perform at Common Market’s album release party in Seattle, then taking the duo on the road with him on the ''Temple of Hiphop'' tour.〔The full story was published in Seattle's alternative newspaper, ''The Stranger''.()〕 Distinguishing this album from his previous body of work, Sabzi combined his talents as a DJ to RA Scion's lyrics and talents as a performer. The album was hailed by fans as a remarkable improvement over any of their previous works. Common Market takes on questions about religion, politics and the state of mainstream hip-hop. At the core of Common Market’s music is a critical, unapologetic world view that change is not only necessary, it is inevitable, and can only come about through having love for and serving the people.〔(This observation comes from a review at okayplayer.com )〕 Shortly after the release of their debut album, Common Market gathered praise as ''Seattle Weekly''’s 2006 (Best New Artist ) and performing slots on grand stages such as the ''Sasquatch Festival'' and ''The Capitol Hill Block Party''. They have shared the stage with KRS-One,〔(One show was mentioned in the ''Seattle Weekly'' )〕 Zion I, Ghostface Killah,〔(This noted in a CD review by ''Seattle Weekly'' )〕 The Coup, Guru of Gangstarr, and the Blue Scholars. The album’s regional success, along with the wave of Northwest hip-hop, poised the group for a serious push into the national scene, and the Common Market LP has been mixed and mastered by Seattle music engineer Martin Feveyear and repackaged with new album cover art. Their debut album was also the first official new release of Mass Line, a co-op indie record label run by Common Market, Blue Scholars and Gabriel Teodros.〔(The full story on the record label published in ''The Stranger'' )〕 The now-defunct label's mission statement included the goal of using hip hop as a means of grassroots community organizing and youth outreach. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Common Market (hip hop group)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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