COMMON ON PRESIDENT OBAMA'S INAUGURATION!

Common says there’s nothing ordinary about attending the second inauguration of his fellow Chicagoan — President Obama.

“I’m very excited. It’s a moment in history. I was telling my friends in the car tonight — it’s not always that you are at a moment in history,” the rapper tells The News’ Jennifer H. Cunningham.

Common was among the performers at the Ourtime.org “Generation Now” party Saturday night at Washington, D.C.’s Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture.

T-Pain and John Legend also rocked the event, which recognized young people’s role in the 2012 election. It was hosted by Tate Donovan and will.i.am.

Common says his advice for the President is to “continue to do what you're doing. You’re a great human being and you inspire us all.”

The rapping actor also says he has high hopes for the President’s second term.

“Expect greatness. Expect motivation and inspiration. Also, young people, we have to make change ourselves. We have to hold ourselves responsible. But the President is going to make change for us. Expect it. Change for the better.”

Before he performed a medley of hits, T-Pain said he wasn’t too impressed by President Obama’s singing skills.

“The President as a singer? Probably 50/50. Yeah, I don’t know."

T-Pain says he’d autotune Obama if he had the chance: “Definitely. All the way. I would crank it all the way up.”

Although T-Pain rocked the stage in D.C. Saturday night — he says he had to honor an oath of his own back home in Florida today. “I’m home Monday — gotta take the kids to go see ‘Wreck-It Ralph.’”

Will.i.am brought his relatives to the inauguration

“I brought my mom,” says the Black Eyed Peas front man. “My mom’s here and my aunt. So I’m really excited to have my mom see what I saw last inauguration.

He says his mom’s been wearing “just a big huge smile.”

Tate Donovan, who co-hosted the Ourtime.org Generation Now party, says Obama’s voice is music to his ears: “Every time I listen to him talk, I’m just blown away. I feel so happy and lucky that he’s our President.”

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