This weekend I got dragged along to a concert featuring a D.C. rapper Wale. Got to admit I wasn't that into Wale, but I ended up really loving his opening act K'Naan. K'Naan is from Canada...that great bastion of hip hop and rap music. Originally though he is from Somolia, coming over with his mother and two siblings when he was 13 on what turned out to be the last commercial flight ever out of Mogadishu.
He was really great in live and I bought his CD Troubadour on LaLa and am really digging it. A lot of his lyrics reference how being gangster over here is just ridiculous when compared to growing up in what is considered about the most dangerous place on earth. And you got to admit there isn't much you can say to that, especially when your country has basically no functional government, or police and is the go to destination if you want to be a pirate.
You can check out more of his story and music in a piece on NPR here.
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