Words I'm weldin' like James Johnson

from Common – Maintaining Lyrics on Rap Genius

Keeping with the thematic of black achievement and uplift, Common references the black polymath James Weldon Johnson, a notable novelist, lawyer, educator, poet, and diplomat from the first part of the twentieth century.

The pun is on Johnson’s middle name — Common “welds” words together to make a coherent, aesthetic whole.

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