Talk:K'naan

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Contents 1 Notability 2 Fixed the page up 3 Clan affiliation 4 pronunciation 5 Black musician

[edit] Notability

Until we have an album produced, aren't all of us rap artists? --Wetman 2 July 2005 19:02 (UTC)

[edit] Fixed the page up

The album page is more detailed and this page now has more on his life. Most of it was found on the allmusic.com page on K'Naan and the link is there citing the info.

The picture is also used for a promotional interview thing for his album and that is clairified

and to the person who said we are all rap artists, sure we all are. But you have to be saying something in your music which most of the mainstream artists don't. K'Naan can also sing pretty good himself --FAH1223 10 September 2006 11:15 (UCT)

[edit] Clan affiliation

The article stated that K'naan is from the Hawiye clan. At the same time, this was disputed in the Hawiye article, where someone claimed he is Darod. As there is no attribution for either assertion, I am removing the clan affiliation. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 18:58, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] pronunciation

is the pronunciation supposed to be English or Somali? If English, is it like Canaan, or does it rhyme with can or con? Right now the IPA is ambiguous. kwami (talk) 08:08, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Black musician

Please stop edit warring over this. Yes, he is Somali. He is also black. We have a reference which makes this explicit. If you disagree, find a reliable source that does so, rather than arguing pointlessly. --Haemo (talk) 00:24, 6 May 2008 (UTC)