Rapping Paper
One of the real up-and-coming rap artists of the current generation is a guy who goes by the name K’NAAN. His real name is Kanaan Warsame and he is from Somalia. He just recently came out with an album called Troubadour, which is, in part, biographical in nature. One of his claims is that he’s from the worst ghetto of all. And this seems to be pretty true, since he’s from Mogadishu circa 1993. The neighborhood he grew up in is now known as the River of Blood. During the Civil War. So his lyric “So what’s hardcore? Really are you hardcore? Hmm…” is really fitting. This gives him much leverage over those wannabe “gangstas” and such like that you sometimes find in the music world, the ones with the limos and expensive clothes. He’s just a different kind of artist.
