Better than that other recent mixtape? This album is not for sale or something?
― Mordy, Tuesday, 13 October 2009 03:13 (fourteen years ago) link
You Can't Buy This wasn't designed AS a mixtape per se...more of an odds'n'sods collection
It had the original version of Troubadour's 'Somalia' that he decided was too depressing to put on the album, an MTV Live song he improvised w/ Nelly Furtado, his website-only Kicked, Pushed freestyle and some tracks that he featured on from other people's albums (Amadou + Mariam, Mos Def, M-1).
This is a coherent listen front-to-back, much more comparable to say....Rhymefest's Man in the Mirror or other mixtapes that are designed to be heard as albums and not as disparate collections of leaks or leftovers. So yes, better, but also very different.
― Binkie & The-Dream: One is a Terius, the other's insAY!ne (Alex in Montreal), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 03:31 (fourteen years ago) link
dude is mad boring imo
― we beat so many gimp (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 03:36 (fourteen years ago) link
well, recognizing that we don't like earnest/conscious/earthy/etc. these days because it's not as "authentic", he's certainly not gucci. maybe it's a live thing, but he works a crowd better than pretty much anyone i've seen this year. captivating.
actually, not just a live thing. great ear for a pop hook and a constant willingness to experiment. maybe that makes him npr-rap or HEY GUYS I'M WHITE-bait, but like...he has a strong voice and the tunes are good enough that i don't give a shit. ymmv.
― Binkie & The-Dream: One is a Terius, the other's insAY!ne (Alex in Montreal), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 03:44 (fourteen years ago) link
wow. that was...defensive of me? i dunno. i don't think i'd want to hear a whole bunch of k'naan copycats. but he does what he does well enough that he makes me care, you know?
― Binkie & The-Dream: One is a Terius, the other's insAY!ne (Alex in Montreal), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 03:46 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't think he's boring at all, he's v v entertaining even when not entirely original.
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 03:51 (fourteen years ago) link
My artist of the year: http://www.citypages.com/2009-12-23/news/aby-wolf-k-naan-and-p-o-s-top-artists-of-the-year-09/5
― Pete Scholtes, Sunday, 27 December 2009 23:39 (fourteen years ago) link
And he was never heard from again.
― war mice (hardcore dilettante), Sunday, 8 May 2022 01:57 (one year ago) link