Comments on: Artist Spotlight: K’naan

By: BrainTrain

BrainTrain — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:57:37 +0000

@ eA What Do You Do exactly Please break it down 4me?!?!

By: BrainTrain

BrainTrain — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:55:48 +0000

That would be awesome! Make sure U Hala @ me when U come 2 South Africa… I’ll hook U up with the Best…
If U need accomodation @ a Guest House to Heritage sites in Soweto (Nelason Mandela’s House) I got those connections…You will enjoy it I promise U…

By: eA

eA — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:26:17 +0000

Haha, I really need to get on that sidebar tip like everyone else…

Who would’ve thought she’d be at the Jazz Festival. I passed up going the last couple of times, simply because I thought it’d be pure old people I wouldn’t enjoy. Okay, next time I’m in town, I will be there!!

By: BrainTrain

BrainTrain — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 14:29:10 +0000

(@ Ea) If U can send me your e-mail address I can hook U up with some of the material they did…Oh! and Zaki Ibrahim,I an interview with her when she was performing @ the Jazz Festival in Cape Town and the Party People GiG with DJ Kenzhero…She truly an amazing artist. Zaki’s performance @ the Festival was the most outstanding, even MosDef couldn’t match that Hey…..

By: eA

eA — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 12:00:44 +0000

SA, BRAP. aha

you just brought me back YEARS. I haven’t heard anything from Tumi & The Volume in so so long… when they first came out with Zaki Ibrahim (Before everyone in Toronto new who Zaki was, I was on her tip, YEP!) and when District 6 music started.

But finding Tumi & Co. music here is impossible… or was when I last listened. I should get my cousins to send my some shit, hmmm.

By: BrainTrain

BrainTrain — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 09:36:45 +0000

K’Naan Killed it in South Africa…
Have U guys listened 2 Motif Records by Tumi & The Volume?? K’Naan also kills it there…

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 06:54:37 +0000

I got a chance to see him at the Apple Store in downtown SF. He was so sick.. I put videos of a couple songs and some pics as well as a small brief about teh show.

http://dawhat.blogspot.com/2009/06/knaan-live-at-apple-store-in-downtown.html

By: Dr. MaD

Dr. MaD — Sun, 17 May 2009 04:38:34 +0000

hooot damn nice review I think K’naan is my discovery of the year for real!! Tonight my man is opening his show in montreal and i cant be there!!! but im glad im gonna see him in Rockthebellzzzz!!

By: DJ Multiple Sex Partners

DJ Multiple Sex Partners — Fri, 15 May 2009 04:18:02 +0000

It’s always an awkward read when the questions are longer than the answers, but really, you can’t lay all of that at K’naans feet. Those were very, very loaded and leading questions pretty much front to back. You didn’t leave him with much to say.

By: eA

eA — Thu, 14 May 2009 21:07:39 +0000

Oh, and the knock on ‘America,’ lmao. He answered how he could … what’s he gonna say ‘nah, I thought it was shit and Mos was wack beyond belief on it, Chali 2na couldn’t save it, and my ass sang in Somali.”

Somalians like that song… does that count? Hahaha.

By: eA

eA — Thu, 14 May 2009 21:04:13 +0000

I love this album and easily see it being compiled on a ’slept on’ album of the year list [so far]. I mean, the ability to be highly political without stuffing it down your throat is a talent. Not to mention, homie ain’t afriad of going off the board…

That being said, Deez, tough ass questions. There’s a lot I can imagine him not elaborating on for it’s ‘political correctness’ or whatever, but considering he’s not afraid to say what he says in his music, I don’t know why he couldn’t say it in an interview. Moreover, when speaking about HIMSELF and what differentiates himself from others in the game, you’d THINK he’d take the opportunity to self-praise to the tenth degree. I guess he doesn’t believe in that, and let’s the music speak for himself.

If I do end up going to RTB [still debatable, where it's being held in Toronto is far beyond wack,] I’ll be hella excited to see him.

By: Stizzie

Stizzie — Thu, 14 May 2009 20:39:58 +0000

damn i thought he woulda said more too..but he’s a good person and a great mc..I did some work with him at the toronto hip hop manifesto last year. I’m very proud of toronto’s hip hop scene right now, not just because of the steady exposure it’s recieving from the rest of the world, but how tdot hip hop itself isnt so one dimensional as everyone used to make it out to be. we have a lot of great talent out here. it’s only a matter of time.

great questions Sean.

By: akzzle4shzzle

akzzle4shzzle — Thu, 14 May 2009 18:16:53 +0000

omg great interview with K’Naan, real hip hop indeed.

By: MaG

MaG — Thu, 14 May 2009 17:48:59 +0000

wit you kev…he seemed stand-offish…which i aint gonna knock a brotha for at all….but that’s the vibe I got

By: Young K

Young K — Thu, 14 May 2009 17:31:12 +0000

haven’t read the interview yet but I just gotta say, K’naan is nice!

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 14 May 2009 17:17:46 +0000

I still haven’t checked this album. Great questions Deez, though I wish K’naan would have expanded more on his answers.

By: Freddie C

Freddie C — Thu, 14 May 2009 17:16:43 +0000

DOPE!

Can’t wait to see K’Naan at Rock the Bells in San Bernardino