Wale and K’naan Invade The House of Blues on April 13th!
24 February 2010
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Posted February 23rd 2010
Every once in a while an artist comes along and completely changes the game: Jay-Z, Nelly, Pharrell, Kanye West. Wale‘s got next. Fusing DC’s homegrown go-go genre with a streetwise Northern hip-hop sensibility, he takes samples from all genres and blends them together with lyrical dexterity. In 2005 he released his debut mixtape, Paint a Picture, and has since released four more. His debut album, Attention Deficit, was released November 10, 2009.
With his unique voice but still truly authentic style, K’naan brings an enormous dose of realness and urgency to the hip-hop world in a time when people are desperate for it. From a personal and cultural history rooted in poetry (being the grandson of one of Somalia’s most famous poets ), K’naan widens the traditional hip hop perspective, from ghetto’s to slums, from drug dealers to war lords, from 9mm and eagle 440′s to AK’s and rocket propelled grenades. “Where I’m from there are no police or fire fighters, we start riot’s by burning car tires.” from K’naan’s song entitled “What’s Hardcore”.
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