K'naan

Somali rapper K'naan mixes hip hop swagger with reggae and traditional music in his second album, Troubadour, but his message is grounded in the war-torn streets of Mogadishu that he fled as a child... More »

Some rappers rhyme about their hard-knock lives to get street cred. But for 31-year-old Somalian-born Kanaan Warsame, who performs as K'Naan, writing about his war-stricken childhood was therapeutic... More »