K’naan

Somali-Canadian rapper K’Naan teams up with Portuguese-Canadian pop singer Nelly Furtado on this song about what it feels like to be lonely, misunderstood, unpopular, and not pretty. In other words, what it’s like to be a teenager. A lot of K’Naan’s earlier songs were about growing up in war-torn Mogadishu; this song, which first appeared on his EP More Beautiful Than Silence in February, is sounding especially poignant these days, when just watching the evening […]