Well take a look at where you live what if it happened there? You probably think that it's too far to even have to care If you weren't involved before it's never too late to start See we don't have to wait for things to break apart We forget about the people still strugglingДЄnd assume that its really all love again nahh Thats too far away so right now I sayДЄnd there's a little help from the government

We gon pick it up even though we still strugglingДЄu nom de la survie (In the name of survival)Д«attant pour nos vies (Fighting for our lives)ДЇor some other day (And then it goes back x3)Ahhho ahhho ahhho Now Feels like defeat to wretched retreat Each record is a step on the way to making the next one, and hopefully to a life of making music.Threatening my very survivalДЄnd broke all my dreams вЂњI never worry about whether a record will be more successful than the one before. IвЂ™m happy to have done what IвЂ™ve done, and then to turn around and do something completely different. I donвЂ™t much care about those kinds of pressures. вЂњBut I have a very stubborn, protective layer. from the public, radio programmers and my label, from everyone who waits in hope. With four albums - including the 2009 monster hit Troubadour - already under his belt, and riding expectations that Country, God or the Girl will break new musical ground, KвЂ™naan said he feels вЂњpressure in the air. 16, featuring peer artists and musical friends Nelly Furtado, Nas, Bono, Will.i.am, Mark Foster and the Rolling StonesвЂ™ Keith Richards, KвЂ™naan - real name, Keinan Abdi Warsame - is gearing up for a major two-pronged promo blitz organized by his record label and his publisher. With a new album, Country, God or the Girl, set for release Oct. No one should try to guide the pen of an artist, and he would never allow that to happen.вЂќ He was very well loved for being such a politicized poet, but he also wrote about love. His stature and centredness impressed me. The guiding spirit in the story in the book, as in the song, вЂњWavinвЂ™ Flag,вЂќ is KвЂ™naanвЂ™s grandfather, Haji Mohammad, a celebrated poet in his homeland, вЂњwho could stop people fighting with a poem,вЂќ KвЂ™naan said. The book also includes the complete lyrics and sheet music for вЂњWavinвЂ™ Flag,вЂќ which became a worldwide hit after being chosen as the official song of the 2010 FIFA World Cup soccer series, as well as a brief history of Somalia and a short biography of the author/musician, who has two children, aged 7 and 5, with his ex-wife. вЂњIвЂ™m not trying to explain the song, just the world behind it,вЂќ he said. and finally Canadian authorities as they made their way first to New York, then Toronto, where they were finally granted status, and where KвЂ™naanвЂ™s fascination with music at school blossomed into a substantial career. The book tells, in a simple conversational style, how 13-year-old KвЂ™naan, his mother and three siblings, left their home in Mogadishu after the 1991 outbreak of the Somalian Civil War, and describes their experiences as refugees at the hands of Somali, U.S. I think children can more easily understand that these people have families also, and friends they love and have to leave in difficult circumstances, and that we have more in common with them than we believe we do as adults.вЂќ

вЂњWhen weвЂ™re grown, itвЂ™s easy to think of foreigners, immigrants and refugees as people who are different, separate, from the rest of us. вЂњWhen youвЂ™re young is when you start to familiarize yourself with certain kinds of empathies that help you understand history in the right context,вЂќ KвЂ™naan, 34, said in a phone interview Friday. KвЂ™naan could have written a memoir for adult readers, an epic refugee story of flight, struggle and discovery that traces every thrilling and agonizing step the young Somalia-born, Canada-nurtured rapper/hip hop artist, songwriter and activist has made on his way from poverty and fear in his war-torn native land to the highest strata of international pop music stardom outlined in his multi-award-winning hit song, вЂњWavinвЂ™ Flag.вЂќД«ut he very deliberately chose to aim his first book at children, he told the Star on the eve of the publication Tuesday of When I Get Older: The Story Behind вЂњWavinвЂ™ Flag,вЂќ a 32-page picture book written by KвЂ™naan and illustrated by prominent New York artist Rudy Gutierrez.

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