K'naan's newest project, a five-song EP titled 'More Beautiful Than Silence,' debuted last month, and since its release, the Canadian rapper-singer dropped a track with Nas and made headlines for Mitt ...

His name means “traveler” and Somali-born poet, rapper and musician K’naan has certainly come a long way. The hip-hop sensation, who’s been compared by critics to both reggae hero Bob Marley and rap ...

Born to a throne, stronger than Rome But violent prone, poor people zone, But it’s my home, all I have known, Where I got grown, streets we would roam, Out of the darkness, I came the farthest Among ...

K’NAAN, the thrilling hip hop artist who writes Bob Marley-like anthems, played a sold-out concert Tuesday at the Fox Theatre in Boulder to a hand-waving and sing-a-long audience. The rapper from ...

This week was a triumph for the long-running Cash Money Records empire, as three of its artists made MTV’s “Hottest MCs in the Game” list and new label member Tyga released his new album Careless ...

GRAND RAPIDS -- K'Naan didn't set out to make political statements or deliver socially relevant messages when he wrote and recorded his new album, set for release later this month. It's just something ...

The point of actual overlap came and went quickly for the rappers K’Naan and Wale at the Fillmore at Irving Plaza on Wednesday night. It happened during K’Naan’s half of a double bill, on a boast ...

Like all potentially game-changing MCs, K'naan comes with an irresistible backstory. Born in Mogadishu, K'naan grew up in the thick of Somalia's civil war until his father—a refugee working as a ...

Somali-born rapper and musician K'naan became a success based, at least in part, on gritty stories from his childhood in war-torn Mogadishu. But on his most recent album, Country, God, Or the Girl, ...