K'naan- Xplode!!!

K'naan is from a very dangerous place..Somalia!! There,people fight for their lives everyday. Guns and blood are regular things. Kids grow up getting used to heavy killing machines...The terrible experience of life in Somalia is expressed in K'naan's music lyrics..He also talks of hope and having a good time even though we have many problems..He is cool about it..!

Download In The Beginning for free
http://davecaley.com/livemusic/knaan2008-12-16d1t01.mp3

This song was played in the movie Harold and Kumar- Escape From Guantanamo Bay and it was a big hit!

In The Beginning lyrics

YOW!

So -
In the beginning there was hum
From a poet whose pulse felt
DRUM DRUM DRUM!
He would perform prayers and all
Till one day he heard a voice call
COME COME COME!
Just because he moved it was his cost
Just because he thinks he was a little lost.
People get held back
By the voice inside 'em.

Yo -
The voice said a voice speak inside you,
Rejoice and please let me invite you.
To evil greed and lies too.

Yeah

Confusing days he moved in ways it soon became hakuna
Koon Koon Koon.
And knock on his door the lord is no more
And knock on his door his soul is no more

La la la la la la la la... yeah
La la la la la la la la... that was in the beginning
La la la la la la la la... as the story goes on
La la la la la la la la...

So, so so-
The poets got a proposal
He would always hope but never know
What it feels to be free.
He would be the frozen imposed as the toes on all of the posin'
But it would be greed.
That's got him there
He's bound, hungry and, proud too.
People don't care, people just scared,
People don't care, people just prayer.

La la la la la la la la... yeah
La la la la la la la la... that was in the beginning
La la la la la la la la... there was a hum
La la la la la la la la... and things changed
La la la la la la la la... yeah, yeah

Say-
It's better to light a candle than to curse the dark
In the eyes of the youth there are question marks
Like freedom, freedom for the mind and soul
We don't see em,
See them for their worth at all.
That's why we lead em
Lead em to these wars and what is it we feed em
Feed em our impurities and who it is we treat em
Treat em like the enemy humanity will need em
Need em like the blood we spill and where freedom

Freedom for the hearts we fill
Mislead em
They hunger for the love we give but we cheat em

The guys beat em and all he wants is his feedom em
So they defeat em

Whatever spirit he's got
Beat em
And they teach em the rest of the world don't need him
And he believes it's a disease that he's heathen
Put up your fists if all you want is freedom
Put up your fists if all you want is

La la la la la la la la... that was in the beginning
La la la la la la la la... and things change

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

We keep holding on,
And we keep being strong,
And we keep going on,
And on and on and on.

[x3]
{And we keep holding on,
And we keep being strong,
And we keep going on,
And on and on and on.}



Download Dreamer for free
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Dreamer lyrics

Yeah
Believe it or not
What kept me alive
Is mah dream
Maybe I'm just a dreamer
Cause this woman is a keeper
Got me feeling like I need her
Every day I'm getting weaker
Baby I'm just a dreamer
Cause this woman is a keeper
Got me feeling like I need her
Every day I'm getting weaker

Maybe I'm just a dreamer
Cause this woman is a keeper
Got me feeling like I need her
Every day I'm getting weaker
Baby I'm just a dreamer
Cause this woman is a keeper
Got me feeling like I need her
Every day I'm getting weaker

Maybe I'm just a dreamer
Cause this woman is a keeper
Got me feeling like I need her
Every day I'm getting weaker
Baby I'm just a dreamer
Cause this woman is a keeper
Got me feeling like I need her
Every day I'm getting weaker

When you're lonely
Just give me a call
My love or my homie
We can share it all
Always been there for me
We witnessed it all
And we plan to be,
Till eternity.

Maybe I'm just a dreamer
Cause this woman is a keeper
Got me feeling like I need her
Every day I'm getting weaker
Baby I'm just a dreamer
Cause this woman is a keeper
Got me feeling like I need her
Every day I'm getting weaker


Download ABC for free
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Abc's lyrics

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 it's 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 sometimes I'm noble

I'm from the most risky zone, oh
No place is more shifty global
More pistols, Russian revolvers
We shootin' all that is normal

But it ain't just because we want to
We ain't got nowhere we can run to
Somebody please press the undo
They only teach us the things that guns do

They don't teach us the ABC's
We play on the hard concrete
All we got is life on the streets
All we got is life on the streets

They don't teach us the ABC's
We play on the hard concrete
All we got is life on the streets
All we got is life on the streets

Rock, you know my era
B-boy seasoning, salt-n-pepa
Grown and sexy, come with the extra
Crushed up linen, fly like Cessna

This type brew, I gave it birth
Now it's time again to give it a verse
Jamaican born, not a fan of the ganja
Boulevard, Brooklyn to Somalia

And it goes in the background
Playa, that is my sound
The green doesn't symbolize I made it on the top
Pioneer legend and they call me Mr. Rock

No B word or N word, I don't need those words
Respect for hers
The game dried up, so we come with the grease
Leadin' ya right and treatin' ya right, so peace

They don't teach us the ABC's
We play on the hard concrete
All we got is life on the streets
All we got is life on the streets

They don't teach us the ABC's
We play on the hard concrete
All we got is life on the streets
All we got is life on the streets

Superman is known by the locals
As this dude who's so fly it's global
Attitude that came outta struggle
Destitute but I make it hopeful

You real but my real is tenfold
My real will make yours a rental
Gangsta if at ease, essential
Fight with guns or utensils

So bold, nothing's confidential
Breakfast was not continental
And lunch could not compliment all
We still become competent souls

These streets ain't paved with no gold
Matter fact someone stole the light bulb
Nobody fat enough for lypo
They don't teach us to read and write, so

They don't teach us the ABC's
We play on the hard concrete
All we got is life on the streets
All we got is life on the streets

They don't teach us the ABC's
We play on the hard concrete
All we got is life on the streets
All we got is life on the streets



Download I Was Stabbed By Satan for free
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I Was Stabbed By Satan lyrics

[speaking]
1.2.1.2

[Chorus:]
I was stabbed by satan, on the day that I was born,
I was promised loving, but instead I was torn,
La la la, la la la, my heart bled fear,
La la la, la la la, I shed tears.

[Verse 1:]
A poor black ghetto child,
He can't shoot and he can't go run them out,
There's no school and the kids go runnin wild,
The police and the court wanna run them out,
He's so cold, and the po po hate em all,
He ain't seen his daddy since back in '84,
But oh well so it be, now hes in jail,
His mothers stressin just to get him out on bail,
Now sing it out.

[Chorus]

[Verse 2:]
And so the story goes on, There's no glory in the war he takes a tote on
His own body, but his buddies wouldn't of rolled on,
So bloody when the car comes to a stop,
The police with the big glocks, will em out
They say freeze but there's only one comin out,
There's 2 dead with a legal gun to his head,
It's stupid, should of played ball instead,
Let's sing it out.

[Chorus]

[Verse 3:]
So one day, when it's all said and done,
My life will be the bluest rap song ever sung,
My verses will be curses to the rich and all sorts of authority will cease to exist,
My daughters will be free of wars in my honor your fist,
Will raise in the air, in the silence of revolution, my face will appear,
Like the vision of a prisoner with his last beer,
This song is a poem and the whole poem is a tear,
Dropped in your ear.

[Chorus]

[Chorus: with ad libs]

[talking]
So why do kids cry when there born,
Ever ask yourself that, I mean there's no scientific reason explanin that
Well it is said satan stabs a child at birth, as an introduction to pain,
Y'know, welcome to the world right.


Download Does It Really Matter for free
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 Does it Really Matter lyrics

(speaking) yea uhhh....its k'naan....yeaa 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 wrong they say it wont be long keep on singing your song but hey yo you need a single, single to make a mingle something that's kinda simple i would hate to call it jingle a single is a missile takes you right to the middle of 106 and park and maybe jimmy Kimmel you will need somebody famous co-singin it for your anus who you got on your album i don`t see where the name is but i do it my own way i do it my own way i do...if you do what you do your own way you could be famous too.

( CHORUS)

if the beat is hot does it matter where or who its from
if the flow is hot does it really matter where i am from
if the song is hot does it matter cuz the dj drum
if the girl is hot does it really matter where she is from
if the beat is hot does it matter where or who its from
if the flow is hot does it really matter where am from
if the club is hot does it really matter how we drum
if the girl is hot does it really matter where she is
from.

I could`ve been from the west side or the shat town like twista with a flow so sick it blow you to bits it will show you the glits and gold in the wrist and the boat in the fish and i blow them a kiss, lets blow give them em a sweet talking in a piss while taking a piss are you talking to the fish or the girls in the boat exposing their tits


I could've been from NY like rock`em with the my pen i can get paid in full with praise and tools erased and rules my case of jewels am cold like glazier glew with blades and fools am ragging bulls

I could`ve been from L.A like dre and snoop rolling in my six four with fresh case jewels and am ridding on em niggaz unless they cool and i got border troubles like em essays fool

I Could`ve been i could`ve been from the dirty like A town and M.I.A i could ride an invisible motor cycle and go HEY (echo) hey hey...storm like the hurricane and i don't mean ey bay bay am from african where they say K'naan umayey

(repeat chorus)

if you wana make it hot then you better do a drop (echoes drop drop drop drop drop drop...) if you wana get a hit you better add to the street (echoes street ooh yea...) and he is tougher than you suckers non of you could ever bark at him look at him make you tough guys look like you are from suckatem i do it my own my own my i do it my own way ido...if you do what you do your own way you could be famous too

Repeat chorus (x2)