« Trick or Treatment | Main | Crash Plan »
January 10, 2009
Hard Core
While I'm not generally a fan of rap, after hearing him, and a slice of his music on NPR the other day, I'm curious about K'Naan, a rapper from Mogadishu and may pick up an album.
K'Naan could not be mistaken for an American rapper: For one thing, he has a kind of vintage Bohemian look. He says he doesn't think that American rap has much credibility, because even the toughest American neighborhoods aren't nearly as dangerous as Mogadishu."Where rocket-propelled grenades are fired around you on a daily ... a guy bragging on TV talking about how gangster he is?" K'Naan says. "For us, it's more a source of entertainment. It's more like a comedy or something we watch. Say, 'Oh wow, that's kind of cute of American gangsters.' But it isn't hardcore, it isn't that bad. Let's get things in perspective, you know?"
Posted by dberger at January 10, 2009 7:47 PM