Hip-hop star Common reported yesterday he is currently in the studio with producers Kanye West and No I.D. working on a new album. The project is tentatively titled "The Believer".

"It's 'good' music," Common said. "The themes are street music and elevation, things that I feel like I always embody when I rap. But here there's new situations, new solutions."


"I'm striving to get it out in the fall," he said, adding that a single should be ready by late summer or early fall.

Meanwhile Common is also promoting his leading role in the romantic comedy "Just Wright", in which he plays an NBA player who falls for his physical trainer. He and co-star Queen Latifah recorded a single, "The Next Time", which will play over the film's closing credits.