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Troubadour |  | Artist: K'naan
Label: A&M/Octone
Category: Music
Buy New: $13.40
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Seller: ANNICK4
Sales Rank: 60822
Language: English (Unknown)
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 602517943957
UPC: 602527054520
EAN: 0602527054520
ASIN: B001L2I27O
Release Date: February 24, 2009
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | T.I.A. [Explicit] | | • | ABC's [Explicit] | | • | Dreamer [Explicit] | | • | I Come Prepared [Explicit] | | • | Bang Bang [Explicit] | | • | If Rap Gets Jealous [Explicit] | | • | Wavin' Flag | | • | Somalia [Explicit] | | • | America [Explicit] | | • | Fatima | | • | Fire In Freetown | | • | Take A Minute [Explicit] | | • | 15 Minutes Away | | • | People Like Me |
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Product Description
2010 re-issue now includes three bonus tracks; Does It Really Matter [Explicit], Wavin' Flag (Coca-Colar Celebration Mix) and Wavin' Flag (featuring will.i.am & David Guetta). Born and raised in war-torn Somalia until the age of thirteen, before moving to Harlem, New York and then on to Toronto, Canada, K'Naan is an artist with a story to tell. Troubadour, the rapper's second album features the autobiographical and heartbreaking story of a young love cut short by war, alongside more raucous material such as the rock-influenced "If Rap Gets Jealous", which features Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett. An eclectic body of work, following 2007's The Dusty Foot Philosopher perfectly.
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After his debut album--The Dusty Foot Philosopher--took Canada by storm and collected a 2006 Juno Award for Rap Recording of the Year, the pressure was on for K’Naan’s major label follow-up. Troubadour, in a word, delivers. Lyrically, the Somali ex-pat out-rhymes the majority of his native English-speaking counterparts with a mix of violent personal history and charismatic uplift, the occasional melodic chorus, and a voice that’s fairly compared to Eminem’s but more accurately recalls the upper-register nasality of Pharcyde’s Booty Brown. Pop-leaning cuts like “Dreamers” and “15 Minutes Away” duck in and out of instrumentals that borrow from Afrobeat (“Fire in Freetown”), a world/soul sound that hits its apex in the gorgeous “Wavin’ Flag,” and hip-hop’s best use yet of a Bob Marley sample (opener “T.I.A.”). Recorded at Marley’s legendary Tuff Gong studio in Jamaica, the album gets a heavy dose of collaborative energy from such diverse contributors as Mos Def, Chubb Rock, Maroon 5’s Adam Levine (“Bang Bang”), and Metallica’s Kirk Hammett (“If Rap Gets Jealous”). In a year that has already seen an early girth of really strong rap releases that eschew the superficial violence, misogyny, and inanity of most radio fare, Troubadour stands as a front-runner for Hip-Hop Album of the Year. --Jason Kirk
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