The New Jersey police stop Common from being graduation speaker at Kean University

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It was announced on March 30th via Kean Universities twitter that Academy Award winning rap artist Common would be the graduation speaker this year. Just hours after the announcement, the university retracted their statement because of the concerns of law officials. The decision to have Common be speaker was “Strongly opposed” by the NJ police supposedly because of lyrics in a Common Track. The son was released 15 years ago and in it Common raps about Assata Shakur who was involved in the killing of a state trooper and wounding another. “While we respect his talent, Kean is pursuing other speaker options,” the spokeswoman for the university, Susan Kayne, said.

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