Common & Pete Rock show classic footage & their celebrity friends in 'Dreamin' video

Common and Pete Rock have already released a string of videos for their joint album The Auditorium Vol. 1, and they just delivered visuals for their single "Dreamin."

The clip starts with Pete Rock standing on a Brooklyn sidewalk in all red. Then some throwback footage is shown, which takes viewers through different parts of Common's career and personal life.

There's old scenes with his mother Mahalia Ann Hines, his late father Lonnie Lynn, and his daughter Omoye Lynn when she was just a child. The video shows Common in the studio as well, with people like Yasiin Bey, formerly known as Mos Def, late, legendary producer J Dilla, and Common's late cousin Ajile Turner, who was killed in a motorcycle accident in Brooklyn in 2009.

Other people seen in the video include Queen Latifah, late poet Maya Angelou, who appears on Common's 2011 album The Dreamer/The Believer, and a photo of De La Soul's Trugoy the Dove, who died in 2023 after suffering from congestive heart problems. Dave talked about having the condition in the video to De La's 2016 song "Royalty Capes."

The Auditorium Vol. 1 marks Common and Pete Rock's first collaborative LP, although they've worked together before, like on Common's 1996 Ice Cube diss song "The B***h in Yoo."

But thankfully, the project won't be the last time the two rap legends join forces, according to what Common told Forbes in a recent interview.

"It's a blessing that we connected at this point in our lives and if God's willing we will continue to just create,” said the Chicago wordsmith. “It could be in different facets, like of course more volumes of the Auditorium. But there's so much potential with Pete and I. I do believe that this is the beginning of us creating more and more.”