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| Artist : K'naan |
| Album : The Dusty Foot Philosopher-(Re-Issue) |
| Bitrate : VBR kbps |
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| Label : Interdependent Media |
| Year : 2008 |
| Genre : Rap |
| Rip date : Sep-04-2008 |
| Store date : May-20-2008 |
| Size : 88,0 MB |
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|Track Listing: |
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| 01 - Wash It Down 02:17 |
| 02 - Soobax 03:42 |
| 03 - What's Hardcore 03:36 |
| 04 - My Old Home 03:07 |
| 05 - Moment 00:10 |
| 06 - I Was Stabbed By Satan 03:52 |
| 07 - My God 00:23 |
| 08 - Smile 04:03 |
| 09 - If Rap Gets Jealous 04:19 |
| 10 - The Dusty Foot Philosopher 03:56 |
| 11 - Strugglin 03:35 |
| 12 - In The Beginning 03:22 |
| 13 - Hoobaale 05:05 |
| 14 - The African Way feat. Mwafrika 04:21 |
| 15 - Voices In My Head 04:01 |
| 16 - Boxing My Shadow 04:29 |
| 17 - For Mohamoud (Soviet) 00:32 |
| 18 - Until The Lion Learns To Speak 02:28 |
| 19 - Blues For The Horn 06:00 |
| 20 - Til We Get There 04:26 |
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| 67:44 min |
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| This re-issue has a couple additonal tracks from the previous releases. |
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| 2008 Deluxe two disc (CD + DVD) edition of the Toronto-based rapper's |
| universally acclaimed album featuring a bonus DVD. K'naan, former |
| refugee, now based in Toronto makes music that is a mixture of hip hop, |
| African beats and world music intertwined - combining African drums, |
| chants, handclaps, guitars and organic instrumentation sets this album |
| outside the hip hop herd. K'naan creates music with a message. Leaving |
| Somalia at the age of thirteen on what turned out to be the last |
| commercial flight ever to do so, amidst a crumbling society and the end |
| to this day of any form of central government K'naan carried with him a |
| very strong sense of purpose as well as his amazing lyrical gift, which |
| has made him a beacon for other artists a well as those dedicated to |
| global change. |
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| 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. |
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