Testify (Common song)
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| Single by Common | ||
| from the album Be | ||
| Released | September 27, 2005 | |
| Genre | Hip-hop | |
| Length | 2:36 | |
| Label | GOOD Music/Geffen Records | |
| Writer(s) | Lonnie Lynn, Kanye West, Angelo Bond, General Johnson, Gregory S. Perry | |
| Producer(s) | Kanye West | |
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| Common singles chronology | ||
| "GO!" (2005) |
"Testify" (2005) |
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"Testify" is the third single from rapper Common's 2005 album Be. It was produced by Kanye West and released on September 27, 2005. The song samples "Innocent Until Proven Guilty" by Honey Cone.
[edit] Music Video
The single received a type of promotional video known as a "mini-movie"; a term coined by Michael Jackson to describe a music video with a complex plot and a suitably long running time, often with intermissions between the song's parts. The video featured acting parts from, Taraji P. Henson, Bill Duke, Steve Harris, and Wood Harris, and received notable spins on specialist channels such as MTV2.
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| Common |
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| Discography |
| Studio albums |
| Can I Borrow a Dollar? (1992) | Resurrection (1994) | One Day It'll All Make Sense (1997) | Like Water for Chocolate (2000) | Electric Circus (2002) | Be (2005) | Finding Forever (2007) |
| Singles |
| "Take It EZ" | "Breaker 1/9" | "Soul by the Pound" | "I Used to Love H.E.R." | "Resurrection" | "The Bitch in Yoo" | "Never Give Up" | "Retrospect for Life" | "Reminding Me (Of Sef)" | "One-Nine-Nine-Nine" | "Car Horn" | "The 6th Sense" | "The Light" | "Geto Heaven Remix T.S.O.I. (The Sound of Illadelph)" | "Come Close" | "The Corner" | "Go!" | "Testify" |
| See Also |
| Soulquarians | Native Tongues Posse | Lonnie Lynn | GOOD Music | List of Common songs | Smokin' Aces | American Gangster |
