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.
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".
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.....
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.
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.
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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