K'naan

Yeea, Im sending this one out to anyone who's had to wait on a money transfer, yea its kinda whack when they charge you like 10 percent on the dollar but you know how good it feels when they say.. (chorus) You can pick it up today, its 15 minutes away. Yo...

I could've been a doctor were not for degree I could've been a winner were not for defeat I could've been richer were not for the taxes I could've been a scholar were not for classes I could've been a rebel were not for a cause I could've been employed we...

Bundle up my whole style is so cold I glow like old guys who go bald My flow got no front in the vocal Your flow got no button its so old I don't mean to sound like a showboat But it's true my persona's no joke I stepped into some kinda portal I'm legend and...

Slum dog millionaire The underdog sign when nobody can Big shows, sick flows I'm on the roll, that's just how it goes. I think big, I act high I chop it up in the streets like crack rock. Got lots of money But I don't got everything. Got lots of honey...

gabar yaroo subhaano maro shabeelo hirato maro qafiifa huwato maga'aaga ii sheeg magaeygu waa sharaf sharaf haaji weeyan aqalada hariirta dhina baan ka jooga alla ya u sheega tinta u shanleeya nahoy zamzamey sabaah nuurey adoo kin kin iyo kaluun badaneey adoo...

[K'naan:] Since I was a kiddo I was a leader Heard life was a beach but Man I wanna meet her Swimmin deeper but the grim reaper will always creep up No ice on my bed, So I never sleep up Flow Bolt like Usain try n keep up Way before waving flag in the FIFA I w...

[Verse 1:] It's like writing to the dead, dear people, I don't know if you'll hear my last plea, But somebody needs to be a little concerned about me, it's like I'm standing on the edge of a high tower by kanie, Ya'll are rootin me to jump, nobody stopp...

[K'naan:] I’ve been running out of my 70 excuses There comes a point when patience can’t take all these abuses Now my reserves are empty, i’m feeling kind of low 'Cause when do you fight for someone and when do you let ‘em go The other day I thought I saw...

I came out of a killer, neighborhood called River Where life expectancy is shorter than a caterpillar I was once a gorilla, and this show was my cage My trainer was the gauge, AK was my baby sitter When we be out and looted, the whole city was shooting I know...

Yea, uhhh.. Its K'naan.. Yea, uuhh. About to take over with this, here we go I check it... They don`t expect me on this beat, the thunder on the street But I never turn the cheek, surrender or retreat You can bet that I am strong, trying to right what is wro...

Yea Believe it or not What kept me alive is my dream [Hook] And I'm a dreamer but I ain't the only one got problems, but we we love to have fun This is our world, from here to your hood, we alive alive man, it's ok to feel good I'm a dreamer but I ain't the...

Picture the morning taste and devour We rise early pace up the hour Streets is bustling hustling their heart out You can't have the sweet with no sour Spices herbs the sweet scent of flower She came out precisely the hour Clouds disappear the sun shows...

There is no way to write it …there is no way to fight it And I kick and scream but you got me despite it And I got my pride so I begin to hide it Like a fire in a free town you begin to lighten it.. Aha aha aha Sidii hogasha roobka Ah ah aha you shine d...

Nelly: I saw you yesterday, your eyes all a-glazed, oh no Was it too much for you to take? Did you want the pain to go away? K'naan: Yeah, I'll take it I knew I had to leave that trash on my sleeves; Got caught up in the streets I couldn't really breath Oh,...

When I am old and lonely Would you still be there for me 'Cause now I have all of my strength And you have all your beauty When you're gold in Timbuktu Will I still come look for you Let's swim in the deep end Make it warm that we can For you, for me...

Nee kaatru, naan maram, yenna sonnaalum thalayaattuven Nee mazhai, naan bhoomi enge vizhunthaalum enthikkolven Nee iravu, naan vinmeen, nee irukkum vare thaan naan iruppen Nee alai naan karai enne adithaalum ettrukolven Nee udal naan nizhal nee vizhavendaam n...

This ain't a good time But when is it ever I know the perfect time And baby that's never So don't you dare leave me now Throw my heart on the ground Cause tonight ain't the night for sorrow But you can hurt me tomorrow, okay It's on you... okay... I...

set to high no callin the rerevulationary youths dam marley alongside k'naan gunpowder philosipher what some boy feel like peppop huh i made the list this year im on a roll you aint no east african rock and roll you dont know what time it is like your clock is...

one two, one one two [Chorus] I was stabbed by satan, on the day that I was born I was promised lovin', but instead I was torn la la la, la la la, My heart bled tears la la la, la la la, My eyes shed tears [Verse 1] A poor black ghetto child he can't shoot a...

[Intro: "Yorktown" sample] [Hercules Mulligan] And just like that it’s over, we tend to our wounded, we count our dead [John Laurens] Black and white soldiers wonder alike if this really means freedom… [George Washington] Not yet [Verse 1: K’Naan] I g...

Yeow!!!! So! In the beginning there was a hum from a poet whose pulse fell DRUM DRUM DRUM! He would perform prayers and all till one day he heard a voice call COME COME COME! Sus'pi'cious he moved with vicious caution Dismisses, he thinks is a...

[Nelly Furtado] I don't wanna be left In this war tonight Am I alone in this fight? Is anybody out there? Don't wanna be left left in this world behind Say you'll run to my side [K'naan] Something 'bout Mary Never won a pageant Never felt pretty N...

Getting shot is easy tried it 7 times Now I'm just a solo poet workin on my rhymes Killer used to think he was wise to the system Prince of the street always do things his way But he had a case of conventional Wisdom never say nothin the others don't s...

[Chorus:] Turn the light off There's a light on in your heart So let it be your guidance, guidance Open your mouth if what you'd say Could be more beautiful than silence, silence OK, ain't it funny how the talkers always talking? Never firing, but always say...

[Intro] So yeah, basically A lot of people ask me how life was then So here it is... [Verse 1] My old home smelled of good birth Boiled red beans, kernel iol and hand me down poetry It's brick white-washed walls widowed by first paint The tin roof top humming...

[Verse 1: K'naan] Someone called the cops on him Someone told his pops on him He was talkin' crooked And he had some rocks on him Tucked, tucked in his socks's corner Chucks, chucks and the Charlotte Hornet Cap when he 'flow Then they all surprised on him Yes...

So good things come to those who wait. Sure, I've waited about pop pop pop pop that four cousins shot. Ive got grudges lets discuss it. My music needs to touchups, I got a long record of fuckups. Trust me. You don't know a past as weird as mine or a life as ha...

I spy with my little eye A murderer, a murderer So long the ratchet in the streets You never heard of her, streets you never heard of her These are the people who are trying hard to slip over,tryin’ hard to slip over We’re sailing always sailing in the se...

Heaven, is there a chance that you could come down And open doors to hurtin' people like me People like me, people like me People like me, people like me Is it fair to say that I am stressing out? I'm stationed in Iraq and they won't let me out My homey...

Simple as it feels right now With you right now right here right now It took all this time all this time all this time They say I came a long way and they don't mean em took the subway Got sandals but no candles and shots fired for my birthday In the kitc...

We kicking down the door if ever they don't let us in We don't give a f---, yes we on that medicine I'm on that Marley Kush, no, I ain't talking cannabis I'm on that crazy bush yea something like the president Where am I where am I don't have a clue I'm tripp...

My tragedy’s different, my life’s deep listen, Gotta bail, I’m limpin, walked outta hell’s kitchen. Why bother cherishin’, my past is everything wrong and my arrogance, Walk down the stairs pissin’, cop us 'cause they’re bitchin’. Life isn't fair singin’, blue...

Uh, Yeah, Somalia Yeah, I spit it for my block, It's an ode, I admit it. Here the city code is lock and load Any minute is rock and roll And you rock and roll, And feel your soul leavin'. It's just the wrong dance That'll leave you not breathin'. I'm not part...

Basically, I got beef I wanna talk to you directly I can't ignore, I can't escape And that's 'cause you affect me You cripple me, you shackle me You shatter my whole future in front of me This energy is killing me I gotta let it pour like blood, soobax Dadki...

Yeah, yeah, it’s me, strugglin'... I start out, just to vibe out, I ain’t about to bow out, I’m more gangsta than you are but I ain’t about the rou' rou'. My season will come, it has to, Honestly I feel like I’m ten months pregnant or something, I’m passed du...

Pour me a cup of tea like that old song That i had like that old girl i was wrong And its sad if i spit i will cuss you Is that bad cause i really did trust you If the thought ever surfaced to leave you I would die cause the purpose would be you You've changed...

(Spoken) I hope you got your passports, and vaccine shots. [Verse 1] I take rappers on a field trip any day They never been opposite real clip anyway I know where all the looters and the shooters stay Welcome to the city we call Doomsday. When niggaz is just...

{Chorus}: And any man who knows a thing knows, he knows not a damn, damn thing at all, And everytime I felt the hurt and I felt the givin' gettin' me up off the wall, I'm just gonna take a minute and let it ride, I'm just gonna take a minute and let it breeze,...

{Chorus}: And any man who knows a thing knows, he knows not a damn, damn thing at all, And everytime I felt the hurt and I felt the givin' gettin' me up off the wall, I'm just gonna take a minute and let it ride, I'm just gonna take a minute and let it breeze,...

[Verse 1] I take it home I take [?] Don't think about it, just take it from my rule, it's done I am sick about it I feel like I am surviving alone I got a record and I am not afraid of cops at all I am like a Ja-Rule poster, cuz I am off the wall Yo, b...

[Intro] Yo, just imagine, like whistling down a desert or some shit Don't this make you wanna swing like monkeys outta trees? [Verse 1] I don't got no parameters, This amateur's famous, All you fame getters, Hate caterers, Our main names are date of births, O...

It's not a memory core that I am here today Life has been been so cold But I'm not typical I mean a long long time I go I should have died But see my blood's on fire I can't help but survive I never ran away I done being afraid Put it on my name...

Bombs are falling on me since you been gone Shook my world feels like it's armageddon It's not a earthquake ake or tsunami What you hear is the sound of my breaking heart The sound of my breaking heart The sound of my breaking heart There's nothing goo...

You don't have to launch a missile to break down my defense You don't need a fighter jet to end our arguments We don't have to be like everyone to use our common sense So I guess it's time we burned the documents 'Cause you're crazy I'm crazy so there ain...

[Verse 1:] Until the lion learns to speak The tales of hunting will be weak My poetry hales with in the streets My poetry fails to be discrete It travels across the earth and seas From Eritrea to the West Indies It knows no boundaries No cheese It stu...

Eh yo, welcome to my world, please listen HEY! [Chorus:] Poison in my veins, inside I'm torturing my brains, And still I try, aiaiai Voices in my head, am I alive or am I dead, Alone I cry, aiaiaiai [Verse 1:] Consider, configure, the shit that I'm in and th...

[Verse:] Uh and I'm one of those I don't wanna boast But I waited most When I was born I already made it to be a ghost Life was a cage instead it had an age That I had to wait hated everyone of those years And I cried actually I tried I'm surprised my e...

When you hearin' the water, you feel like a turtle Releasin' your tension, the stress and disorder It's big in America - Stephanie, Erica - both of them suffer from livin' in hairy(?) 'cause (Heh) Livin' is very competitive: hasslin' creditors, hazardous a...

When I get older I will be stronger They'll call me freedom, just like a wavin' flag When I get older, I will be stronger They'll call me freedom just like a wavin' flag And then it goes back, and then it goes back And then it goes back, oh Born to a t...

Ooooooh Wooooooh, Ooooooh Wooooooh(x2) Give me freedom, give me fire Give me reason, take me higher See the champions, take the field now Unify us, make us feel proud In the streets our heads are liftin' As we lose our inhibition Celebration - it surr...

I put a pen to the paper this time as visual as possible guns blast at the hospital the walls are whitewashed with tin roof tops to show love you lick your two shots its dangerous man, journalists hire gunmen there's violent women kids trust no one ca...

It's a movie and the whole world is viewing it And the popcorn is dreams torn, but we're always chewing it. (They said) Dishonest by God but the costumes by the devil And the screenplay is adapted from a book that's embezzled. This is where I grew up. Th...