Makin' Sense is the area of the website where people meet to build and elevate about Common, hip-hop and life and general. Make connections, dialogue and build with others who share similar opinions through the variety of interactive areas below.

Enter the Common Chatroom!		Enter the Common chatroom to meet other people with your interests and possibly those without. A samples from Common's latest album release "One Day It'll All Make Sense" can be heard by using the ComX Audio Player. So vibe, rap, relax and chill while chatting online! You can now see the Transcript from the Common and Lauryn Live Online event. Stay tuned for more online chat events.
		You've heard the phrase, "the writing's on the wall". Here's the wall... in fact there are four of them. Four places where the online hip hop community can do the very rare, which is to write what you think about Common, his new album, his tours, hip hop in general, plus his website. Everything counts and anything goes. Simply click the desired topic and see what mark others have left, then leave your own.
		Use the threaded newsgroups to hold discussions over a long period about anything Common and hip-hop related.
		What's that, you think you can ryhme? Then put your lyrics to the test in the Micatastrophe arena - where two net MC's enter their rhymes, and the audience votes on who rips it the hardest. The Micatastrophe is a blind battle against another net MC who could be as close as around the way or from the other side of the world. Once two MC's enter the Micatastrophe, the net audience including Common votes to see who wins and the winner gets immortalized in the Surivors Scroll! Micatastrophe is the Internet mic check for ALL MC's!