Amid his romance with Jennifer Hudson, Common has made a headline-making love confession.
Common fans, come close — because you’re going to want to hear this. The rapper made an eyebrow-raising declaration about his famous girlfriend, Jennifer Hudson, during a recent appearance on The Breakfast Club.
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The two Oscar winners confirmed their relationship in January after months of speculation and now, he’s answered another big question about his future with the multi-talented talk show host. After being asked about tapping into his native Chicago energy for his new album, The Auditorium, Vol. 1, the star explained that he recharged himself by getting to spend time back home. Co-host Charlamagne the God pointed out that it sounded like the performer might get married and was “building a real foundation.”
“With all due respect to all the women I’ve dated… it’s all love, but this is a really healthy and beautiful relationship,” he said, seemingly referencing Hudson without naming her. Common also noted that it’s a different kind of connection with someone who’s from the same place as you as Hudson was also born and raised in Chicago. He also recalled Hudson buying ice cream for people on the set of the movie they co-starred in, Breathe, pointing out that he likes people who treat others well.
“If I’m going to get married, it’s to her,” he said. “That’s simple as that.”
This is not the first time the performer has addressed the topic of marriage during his relationship with the Dreamgirls alum. During an appearance on Today, Hooda Kolb asked Common if he is the marrying type and if this relationship is “the one.
“I feel like I have grown and the work that I’ve done on myself has allowed me to see that I am a marrying type,” the And Then We Rise author shared. “I’m capable and have the capacity. At some point in my life I may want to do that. I would know when the right time is and I think, for me, everything is divine, like, I work from that discernment that when God speaks into your stomach and you feel it in your heart and your spirit, so when I will feel that, I will communicate that with that person and if she’s feeling that, then why not?”
Neither Common nor Hudson have been married before. He shares a daughter with ex Kim Jones while Hudson welcomed her son with ex-fiancé David Otenga.Common is opening up about his new album, and how his girlfriend Jennifer Hudson inspired a few tracks. The rapper released his collab album with producer and DJ Pete Rock, “The Auditorium, Vol. 1,” on Friday, with a special feature from the EGOT winner, on the track “A God (There Is).”Common, 52, explained how Hudson’s role in the 2021 Aretha Franklin biopic “Respect” led to her appearance on the record, in an interview with People published Saturday.
“When I played it to musician friends, they were like, ‘Who is that singing?'” he told the outlet. “I’m like, ‘That’s Jennifer!’ It doesn’t sound like things you’ve heard from her before. I love that we were able to utilize her gifts in a new space. She brought it, man. “The actor thought of Hudson, 42, when listening the the song’s sample, Valerie Simpson’s “There Is a God,” which he always assumed was sung by Franklin. “The light bulb went off. ‘Wait, that song makes me feel like Aretha. Jennifer played Aretha,'” said Common. “(I said) ‘Jennifer, why don’t you sing on this?’ She’s like, ‘Oh man, I would love to sing on it.'”
The Grammy winner also opened up about his new track “Chi-Town Do It,” which includes some interesting lines that could be in reference to his fellow Chicago native. In the song, Common raps: “Forget the red carpet, our stars align forever / Chi-Town is where we are in time.” Later in the track, he says: “Champion lover that could come with a ring / That got a ring to it, you and I theme to it. am in a great partnership, and, man, (Jennifer) is somebody I do really care about and do love and am growing with,” he said. “The potential of a ‘champion lover’ means, ‘Yo, you are the one.’ I am feeling that.”
“The Light” rapper was modest in explaining the bars.
“It’s a lot of potential there is what I’ll say,” he continued. Hudson gushed about her rapper beau during an interview with People at the 2024 Daytime Emmy Awards last month. But the “American Idol” alum was mum in offering any specific details on the couple’s relationship. “Everything is wonderful,” Hudson told the outlet. “That’s all you need to know. “Commager (or J-Comm? An attempt was made!) all but explicitly confirmed their relationship during Common’s appearance on the singer’s talk show, “The Jennifer Hudson Show,” earlier this year. During the interview, Hudson and Common coyly discussed their dating lives without naming who they were involved with.