Charlie Moran recently interviewed Common for AdAge.  Topics included Common’s alliance with Microsoft:

"Microsoft is classy, it’s a timeless brand, and it means something to the world, internationally, and I felt like that’s the direction of what I want Common to be, to be honest. I want to be timeless, I want to be international, and those are the things I feel like I’m working toward now. I was able to team up with them for some of those reasons….Actually Microsoft and I are about to do a line of T-shirts coming out in November. I’m designing them."

That should be interesting unless the rather startling opening shot of a Zune in the Universal Mind Control video is the sort of thing he’s got in mind.