Artist.......: K'naan
Album........: Live α la Fiesta des Suds
Label........: n/a
Genre........: Rap
Catnr........: n/a
Source.......: DVBS
Rip.date.....: Aug-12-2008
Str.date.....: Oct-28-2006
Quality......: VBR/44,1Hz/Joint-Stereo
Url..........: http://www.thedustyfoot.com/
track title time
Live α la Fiesta des Suds
01. K'naan - In The Beginning
02. K'naan - The African Way
03. K'naan - Smile
04. K'naan - Strugglin'
05. K'naan - My Old Home
06. K'naan - Hoobaale
07. K'naan - The Dusty Foot Philosopher
08. K'naan - What's Hardcore?
09. K'naan - Until Tha Lion Learns To Speak
10. K'naan - Soobax
11. K'naan - I Was Stabbed By Satan
12. K'naan - Until Tha Lion Learns To Speak
Runtime 60:56 min
Size 68,6 MB
Release Notes:
Recorded : August 08, 2008 (France 4)
Performed : October 28, 2006 (France)
Born in Mogadishu, Somalia, just as the civil unrest that
rocked the country was beginning, rapper K'Naan spent the
early years of his life trying to avoid death and
listening to the hip-hop records that his father, who had
left Somalia earlier, sent to him from America. When
K'Naan (whose name means "traveler" in Somali) was 13, he,
his mother, and his two siblings were able to leave their
homeland and join relatives in Harlem, where they stayed
briefly before moving to Rexdale, Ontario, where there was
a large Somali community. As soon as K'Naan's English
started improving he began rapping, and in tenth grade he
dropped out of school and traveled around North America
for two years, performing occasionally. Through his
friendship with Sol Guy, part of promotion team Direct
Current Media, K'Naan was able to perform at the United
Nations' 50th anniversary concert in 1999, held in Geneva,
where he used his platform to publicly criticize the
United Nations' handling of the Somali crisis in the
1990s. One of the audience members, Senegalese singer
Youssou N'Dour, was so impressed by the young MC's
performance and courage that he invited him to contribute
to his 2001 album Building Bridges, a project through
which K'Naan was able to tour the world. In 2002 K'Naan
met Jarvis Church, part of the Track and Field Productions
team that helped to propel Nelly Furtado to fame, a
connection that eventually led to a record. The Dusty Foot
Philosopher came out in Canada in 2005, and was followed
with tour spots with Mos Def and Talib Kweli, as well as a
performance at Live 8.