Common Cause 

Is The Timing Right For Conscious Hip-Hop? Plus: Chi-town Rapper's Film Career Takes Off Chart Heat T-Pain, Maroon5, Buble, Babs Inside The White Stripes Major Label Move Big Deals Koch & Navarre 

A New Distribution Power Rises IAC & Front Line Ticketmaster, Top Managers Align Big Numbers The Stones,  Police And U2

An Exclusive Q&A With Their Moneyman Big Awards Unusual Guests At ACMs Clarkson, John Legend 

And Lil Jon Join The Party

On the Cover: Common

Item: BLI-05/26/2007 Issue Date: 05/26/2007