Premiering today exlcusively on Billboard.com, J.PERIOD joins forces with hip hop icon COMMON for the exclusive new single, “The Next Chapter (Still Love H.E.R.)” [Produced by J.PERIOD], the following single from the forthcoming RAGE IS BACK mixtape. “The Next Chapter (Still Love H.E.R.)” celebrates the latest episode in COMMON’s lifelong lyrical love-affair with hip hop, over exclusive production by J.PERIOD. This latest track follows J.PERIOD & Black Thought’s “Rage Is Back (Freestyle),” which premiered last month on Okayplayer.com, and marks the second installment of a literary first: exclusive promo music released in tandem with a new novel.

Set against the backdrop of graffiti-era New York, Manbach’s Rage Is Back delivers a mind-bending journey through a subterranean world of epic heroes and villains, and is already being called “the great American graffiti novel.” A must-read for any literate hip-hop fan, Rage is Back is available in the iTunes bookstore and is currently one of Amazon.com‘s “Books of the Month”.

via BillBoard