Sun, Oct 24th
K'NAAN Paper Tongues
9:00 PM Doors at 8:00 PM
$20.00
With hits such as “Waving Flag,” K’NAAN has a sound that fuses Bob Marley, conscious American hip hop, and brilliant protest poetry.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 ghettos to slums, from drug dealers to warlords, from 9mm and eagle 440s to AKs and rocket propelled grenades.
Somalia. The name alone conjures up images of unbridled destruction, merciless warlords and ruthless terror. A place where nobody—children, the elderly, religious figures—is safe from the atrocities of war, and where the idea of “childhood,” where 8-year olds handle AK-47s like… (Read More)
