[Mediafire] Knaan - Troubadour (Champion Edition) [Grouprip-2010]

After his debut album--The Dusty Foot Philosopher--took Canada by storm and collected a 2006 Juno Award for Rap Recording of the Year, the pressure was on for K’Naan’s major label follow-up. Troubadour, in a word, delivers. Lyrically, the Somali ex-pat out-rhymes the majority of his native English-speaking counterparts with a mix of violent personal history and charismatic uplift, the occasional melodic chorus, and a voice that’s fairly compared to Eminem’s but more accurately recalls the upper-register nasality of Pharcyde’s Booty Brown. Pop-leaning cuts like “Dreamers” and “15 Minutes Away” duck in and out of instrumentals that borrow from Afrobeat (“Fire in Freetown”), a world/soul sound that hits its apex in the gorgeous “Wavin’ Flag,” and hip-hop’s best use yet of a Bob Marley sample (opener “T.I.A.”). Recorded at Marley’s legendary Tuff Gong studio in Jamaica, the album gets a heavy dose of collaborative energy from such diverse contributors as Mos Def, Chubb Rock, Maroon 5’s Adam Levine (“Bang Bang”), and Metallica’s Kirk Hammett (“If Rap Gets Jealous”). In a year that has already seen an early girth of really strong rap releases that eschew the superficial violence, misogyny, and inanity of most radio fare, Troubadour stands as a front-runner for Hip-Hop Album of the Year. --Jason Kirk

   


             K'naan - Troubadour (Champion Edition) 


        Label.........................: A&M/Octone 
        Genre.........................: Hip-Hop 
        StoreDate.....................: Feb-23-2010 
        Source........................: CDDA 
        Grabber.......................: Exact Audio Copy (Secure Mode) 
        Encoding Scheme...............: Lame 3.97 V2 VBR Joint-Stereo 
        Size..........................: 89,10 MB 
        Total Playing Time............: 66:46 

        Release Notes: 



                                Tracklisting 

     01. T.I.A.                                                       03:39 
     02. ABCs (Feat. Chubb Rock)                                      03:10 
     03. Dreamer                                                      04:32 
     04. I Come Prepared (Feat. Damian Marley)                        04:09 
     05. Bang Bang (Feat. Adam Levine)                                03:07 
     06. If Rap Gets Jealous (Feat. Kirk Hammett)                     03:40 
     07. Wavin' Flag                                                  03:41 
     08. Somalia                                                      03:34 
     09. America (Feat. Mos Def And Chali 2na)                        04:46 
     10. Fatima                                                       05:02 
     11. Fire In Freetown                                             04:37 
     12. Take A Minute                                                04:07 
     13. 15 Minutes Away                                              04:56 
     14. People Like Me                                               06:18 
     15. Does It Really Matter (Bonus)                                03:55 
     16. Wavin' Flag (Coca-Cola Celebration Mix) (Bonus)              03:33 


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