As an actor, Common has appeared alongside everyone from Denzel Washington (“American Gangster”) to Keanu Reeves (“John Wick: Chapter 2”), but the rapper’s co-star in his new “Show Me That You Love” video is extra special: his daughter, Omoye.

Making the clip was like family therapy: “The song is based on a conversation we had where she really confronted me about [why] she didn’t feel like I was being a good father in certain areas,” says Common of his 22-year-old child with ex-girlfriend Kim Jones. “It really shook me because I was hurt that she felt like I had failed her in those areas . . . I felt like it was healing for us to do that video.”

Such is the uncommon honesty that the Grammy-winning artist born Lonnie Lynn displays on his new album, “Let Love,” out Friday. He shares his truth on songs that brought him back to his first love: music.

Setting out to make an album that sounded like “Radiohead meets Gang Starr” mixed with the “raw emotion” of Marvin Gaye, Common realized his musical vision by collaborating with soulful singers such as Jill Scott, BJ the Chicago Kid and Leon Bridges, as well as Juilliard-trained pianist and vocalist Samora Pinderhughes.

“I don’t collaborate just because somebody is popular or they gon’ get me on the radio,” says Common, 47. “It has to be somebody who I think would really lift the song up — and care about the song.”

“HER Love” — a sequel to Common’s 1994 classic “I Used To Love H.E.R.” — features rising R&B star Daniel Caesar. “What was dope was that Daniel Caesar was like, ‘Man, “I Used To Love H.E.R.” is one of my favorite hip-hop songs,’ ” he says. “So I was just geeked that he even knew that [song], because he’s only 24 years old.”

Just like it was 25 years ago, the “HER” in “HER Love” is hip-hop. “It’s really me addressing the way I feel about hip-hop culture now and how I can appreciate it,” says Common pointing to current hip-hop leaders such as Kendrick Lamar, Chance the Rapper and J. Cole. “When you really love something or someone, you allow it to be what it needs to be — you allow it to grow.”

On “Memories of Home,” Common addresses being molested as a child — a trauma he revealed in his memoir “Let Love Have the Last Word,” released in May. “Ultimately you’re also working out your own shame and guilt from different things,” he says. “In that healing, I’ve become a happier person, a better person. So I saw that path to happiness as something that I want to share with other people, because in the black community and brown community, it’s been taboo to talk about those issues . . . I’ve had so many men come up to me and tell me, ’Thank you.’ ”

While Common has been busy acting in films such as “The Informer” and “The Kitchen,” he’s still on a high from winning the Best Original Song Oscar with John Legend for “Glory” (from “Selma”) in 2015: “That was monumental . . . Just to be on that stage at the Oscars, a dude from the South Side of Chicago. It was even more fulfilling because it was bigger than me and John Legend. We were there representing hip-hop, representing black people. I felt like, man, I was living in my purpose and doing what I was supposed to be doing.”