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Talk about Mama Africa: Somalian-born and Canadian-raised emcee K’Naan truly represents one of the most war-ravaged sections of his home continent. The “Dusty Philosopher” has seen firsthand the terrors of violence and deftly weaves his homeland’s agony in with the various strains of hip-hop music. On his new single, ABCs, K’Naan spits a grave tale over a synth-and-drum-driven beat from production duo Track and Field. His hometown doesn’t teach people the ABCs, but “only teach[es] us the things that guns do.,” denying its youth an education and leaving little room for anything but “life on the concrete.” To hear more of K’Naan’s stories, look for his new album, Troubadour, due out this January.
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Good lyrics.Production is a little bit different from the "pop hop" songs.Good overall.
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| Posted on Oct 15, 2008 |
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Great beat and this is different for me but its cool
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| Posted on Oct 15, 2008 |
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Production is nice on this. Dude's style is borderline annoying, but it's decent. I'll throw it in rotation. Good music and message. Reminds me of this song called "No Education".
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| Posted on Oct 15, 2008 |
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not for me, hook is annoyin, the beat is kinda hot tho
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| Posted on Oct 15, 2008 |
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This song is nice and it's featured on Madden 09....if you haven't heard of him...YouTube him (K'naan) and listen to his lyrics...He had a song with MosDef that's called (My God)Live on Stage...the lyrics to that joint is even nicer than this one...& he only using 1 of his hands as a musical instrument...Crazy!!....Glad to see him comin out on a more mainstream level.....
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| Posted on Oct 15, 2008 |
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I like that go go go + drum rift! reminds me of 93 or something. However this is not my style. Content is thoughtful. This is alright. Don't think I'll be listening to it again though.
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| Posted on Oct 15, 2008 |
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K'Naan has been around the block (and the Booth) before. What is refreshing is that he has things to say that you aren't going to get from just any other emcee. Great production, intrigued to hear more real soon.
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| Posted on Oct 15, 2008 |
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old schoo feel... it's in rotation...
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| Posted on Oct 15, 2008 |
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I preferred Soobax but this isn't bad. I'm feeling the energetic production, and the hook is really catchy! I don't like his flow, though. Also in Soobax I liked the production but not him, he sounds too strange to me...OK
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| Posted on Oct 15, 2008 |
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this song was okay it wasnt great but it was okay
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| Posted on Oct 15, 2008 |
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no no NOOOO!!!!!. this song is whack this aint the early 90's dog,we in 2008 garbage no more need to say
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| Posted on Oct 15, 2008 |
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like this dudes flo been a fan of his work since sabaxx in 03 beat is different and going to cop this album
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| Posted on Oct 16, 2008 |
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not bad,not bad..beat is rockin dat old skewl flava,and thats wassup
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| Posted on Oct 16, 2008 |
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pop hop, for sure.
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| Posted on Oct 22, 2008 |
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hey diz guy hot he can spit n im luvin this ethiopian beat all daii... luv it
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| Posted on Feb 13, 2009 |
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| Posted on Mar 14, 2009 |
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Video and album version are much better. And if you haven't checked out K'Naan's album; what are you waiting for?
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| Posted on Mar 14, 2009 |
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Nice see a New style
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| Posted on May 18, 2009 |
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