K'naan: Time-Tested Troubadour

By: Jim Welte K'naan by James Minchin Hip-hop has always been built on sonic autobiography. Whether it's 50 Cent boasting about getting shot nine times as a pre-stardom gangster, Jay-Z's chronicles of hustlin' his way out of Brooklyn's Marcy Projects or the astonishing rise and fall of Notorious B.I.G. - currently playing at a theater near you - hip-hop is memoir on wax. But modern hip-hop is also the bastion of posturing, with rappers taking on personas without the bio to back it up. In...

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