K' Naan - "America" [Live]

[ilhaan1939]

this is beutiful

[najaad1]

sumaya är det sant

[loveg6333]

wow somali words not bad

[sumaya135]

OMG magacaygu waa Samsam n jag stolt över Kanaaaan love you bro <3< 3

[NarutoUzumakiRockz1]

I'm from Cabduwaqq. :D and my mum is from there and my dad is from Mogadishu.

[Sa20ni]

@NarutoUzumakiRockz1 lmao how is that relevant?

[Bountylicious]

yes he couldnt find it in america (peace) like the chorus says, .....so he moved to Canada. I would advise people to not move to America. you will get messed up in many ways.

[moonsunstar14]

sharaf haji!! i wonder if this girl exist in his life!!

[kevinmac631]

Wow. Why is he not so much bigger because he's beter than most out there

[NarutoUzumakiRockz1]

K'naan, sometimes you make me proud of being a Somalian. :D

[bishara123ful]

you are amazing k'naan ah lol

[ghsfgdfhjd]

nicth



[dav0428]

amazing!

[ozzyosman28]

Shout out from DK Denmark! K'naan is legend!

[MCdobermanBNTSO]

ONE OF MY FAVORITE ARTISTS!

SOMALIA'S GOTTA BE REALLY PROUD OF HIM. I COME FROM A GERMAN/MEXICAN BACKGROUND AND HIPHOP IS UNIVERSAL AND K'NAAN IS MORE THAN UNIVERSAL. I RHYME IN ENGLISH/SPANISH/GERMAN AND SOUNDS FUCKING AWESOME! KEEP IT UP K'NAAN! YOU GOT A TRUE FAN HERE

[xheartshapebox]

Mash Potato

[lebanduale]

somali language is mother tongue for this countries Ethiopia , Kenya,somalia and Djibouti... WE ARE PROUD OF YA K'NAAN

[Cameratop]

@bank4fun Idiot, there are Somaliis who've lived here before your skinny ass was drinking mud water. Some of us were born here and we're 30+ your broken English says a lot about you. "Somalian" is not a word you effing TROLL.

[MsRjjc]

K'naan is the best no matter what you think

[Zarloth]

i dont understand anything he is saying but it does sound nice lol

[VidUploDer]

THE 38 DISLIKES ARE THEM UGLY ONES WHO LISTEN TO JUSTIN BEIBER

[roseheart73]

Mash' Allah



[roseheart73]

Mash' Allah

[jaguar1712]

38 people dislike this because they don't know what "reciprocate" means

[AxtoxthexJ]

@jaguar1712 alright i'll tel you what it means, he likes to give and to get anything back unless you give him something to Invent and he like it fresh cooked not refrigerated. lol

[DCSTUNNAZ100]

Nice and creative Dcs baby conscious rappers on the rise...Check us out

[joaquinlarrain94]

subtitles would be nice

[suejonassister]

who on earth will dislke this???

[nima0022]

Somali 0:20- 1:18

[samrawit130]

Love this song rock on lol i gess Rap on love u K'naan

[immortal7007]

K'naan adds flavour to rap: doing justice to Rap

[thajeeper]

Holocaust? 6 million jews dies in theirs. over 10 million Chinese died aty the same time, but which is known better? How about the Rwanda Genocide in 1994? Over 800 thousand!!! How about Somalia's own in 1991? "Somalia is a rare case in which genocidal acts were carried out by militias in the utter absence of a governing state structure." You want to condemn someone? Look in a mirror!!!!

[ZoeMyJesus]

@thajeeper Don't forget the near 20 million Russians that died under Stalin. Or Pol Pot...or any of the countless number of atrocities that have been desensitized and cast down as numbers. Like @Bobowetu said Forgive, but do not forget. If we forget we're liable to let the same thing happen. I hope one day, though I know it won't be in my life time, or my children's life time, that the Earth will know peace and perhaps even love.

[EthioCaramela]

The background music is a classic Ethio tune ;) love it.

[EthioCaramela]

Love K'naan! Awesome

[MrRyderBlack]

Africa <3 :)

[fardsowz]

that is best songs

[TrangertoR]

i have heard this melody before... i'll find it for sure. peace man

[bishara123ful]

you are kidding right it was the arabs who enslaed aficans sold thme mercilessy to the west (<:|) {:} i from somail ok

[Bountylicious]

The Somali part is the best part, We are known as not only The land and people of Punt but also The land of Poets and a Nation of Poets.Our language is so beautiful MashAllah.

[waranish]

@Bountylicious Somalida faan badana lol

[samira2050]

@Bountylicious Is that really what punt-land meant?????????/ interesting!

[Bountylicious]

@samira2050 yes Somalia is known as land of Punt. and there is a region in eastern Somalia called Puntland (where I come from) . same place the Ancient egyptians travelled to, they worshipped the Gods there. Somalia is where they come from originally and 200 thousand pharaohs went back to Somalia, after the collapse of the empire. true history.

[EBgamer17]

I LOVE DIS SONG IT SO GOOD AND I LOVE TO RAP LOOK

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YES YO YES YO DODODO

ILOVE CHEES YES IM COOL

I SLILL LOVE CHEES

YES DO

MORE 123 UH 790876

LOOK I AM 5 AND 3 CHEESE CAKES

I AM ALL MOST 6

[bishara123ful]

you look ama man gooooooooooooooooooooooooo k'naaa

[argoof1]

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[bishara123ful]

hi



[bishara123ful]

hi hey i love your songe

[turcofresh]

somali part sounded dope even though i didnt understand sh...

[warero]

@turcofresh he singing kid's song in play ground lol especially young girls

[MrZara99]

This is great piece of music..I realy enjoy listening this

He knows how to make a song to sound great ;)

[JAMAiCANOLOGiST]

OOH KNAAN IS SO FUCKIN FINE! all them somali boys are too damn fine for words and they are such badasses! ooh they all look like yummy jars or peanut butter with that pretty skin! ooh minnesota here i come!!! YES!!!!!!!

[luulcaddey]

@JAMAiCANOLOGiST loool i don't knw about the rest of the somali guys....but u r right about one thing, that K'NAAN IS SOOOOOOOOOOO DAAAAAMMMMMMMN FINEEEEEEEE AS HELLL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[JAMAiCANOLOGiST]

@luulcaddey girl yes he is fineeeeeeee and some of the somali guys who look like him. i love me some dark skin somali men and dark skin african WOO HOO! OOH YES! i love knaans beard and his sexy lips! :)

[CurrentUrbanMedia]

greatvideocheckout thisvideo's. Search for crack city dvd!

[LaVerdad1990]

Back to this country of the educated and people get robbed and we celebrate it

lol

aint that the truth

[Ajamal23]

Knaan doing his thing.

[eeplebert]

I cant imagine anybody hating on this without a motive aside from the music itself. good sheet, mang!

[moogle68]

The DJ is using Skullcandy SK Pro DJ Headphones. The oldest version of them that is.

[azageshsammy]

i know this ethiopian beats good beats

[Thereddodo]

I wonder out of the 32 people who disliked this video how many of them are somali?

[grandchamp3]

RIHANNA - ONLY GIRL adam&eve i think she got greedy T.I. King (feat. Justin Timberlake) Dead And Gone OUR FATHER IN THE KINGDOM OF HEAVENS R U ALRIGHT IM RIGHT 2 THE BONE BONE HA AND HA SMILE SMILE

[grandchamp3]

i saw aliens,, dem=them leave the woods (its) life tired of hollywood,, dem=them all of them now in e.u with the don don,, story told right simple ways.... almost

[MrSorra25]

Check out the original music, it is a song in Amharic (Ethiopian language) by the famous Ethiopian singer Tilahun Gessesse in his album released in 1975. If you want to listen the song just type or copy and paste "Tilahun Gessesse - ezoralhu"

[KamranS2007]

@MrSorra25 Thanks for saying that mate, I love K'naan's version but Tilahun Gessesse's is something else !

[MisssCurious]

@MrSorra25

who the f cares?

go knaan love u

[Keezih]

@MrSorra25

The original song is not Amharic. The original beat is from Amhara people, idiot.

[MrSorra25]

@Keezih whatever!!!

[DJMoe614]

I like da flow

[doina2ni]

just spent time reading the comments on this video... people hate too much in this world. just stop! we are all HUMAN, race, ethnicity, language and everything else that we discriminate against are all man-made by the sense of superiority that our consciousness permits us to have - as opposed to all other animals, who conform to natural laws and make up the food chain (they may be superior in strength,but they don't consciously know it). listen to the song, like it, don't like it, but stop hatin

[stairway11]

ethiopium

[TheNadra]

@yahya456 im not...god i told one stupid joke and you people act like i joked about your mama. and wat i said about the qur'an was so true lool. i wasn't talking about the real qur'an i was talking about stupid rules some people claim to say that is in the quran.

[TheNadra]

@yahya456 LOLZ racist somalis..........predict able. yo man i love some if his songs so i'm not a hater....um..calm down lol

[hoodblazin23]

I speak fluent german,english and somali but the somali part of this song is just to high - its a "gabay" - a poem! and many ppl asked me to translate it but i just couldn't. Knaan youre simply amazing!show them whats somalia is all about!Intellect political correct- rap with a great oldskool vibe!

[msnaciimo]

you are so funny kannan

[biyokulule]

if you think knaan is cool thumps up

[DreamzWolf]

@biyokulule if u think he only said this so everyone click ,,thumbs up'', click nothing :DD Joking, click anything... :P You choose :D

[MegaNathir]

my nigga knaan goes in hard styl

[earcolos]

Man... I think imma need 30 bullets

[youngweezybaby3]

the somali verse can not be exactly translated in english because it's very high grammatically ! 

[313stunman]

the chorus is right it says " we went to America to find peace but none was found" we need to work on that and become a more peacful nation

[DwreckMusic]

definatly not english... aside from the verse.

[TheNadra]

I dont get somalians, first they are like 'music is bad blah blah blah' k'naan comes and they are like 'we have a voices, this guy is great' wtf ppl stick to one thing and stop writing your own Qur'an

[moeazysgc]

@TheNadra Aleast his work/music is positive n inspiring?

[TheNadra]

@moeazysgc that does not relate to my statement

[JGSS89]

@TheNadra you're so ignorant. 

[TheNadra]

@JGSS89 i'm ignorant? wft is that suppost to mean? sry dude but wat i said is a fact, no matter wat u think......

[JGSS89]

@TheNadra Are you a somali yourself? How the fuck do you know how they think?! Not every somali person likes K'naan and those who do like him for his music not his nationality. Have you ever heard K'naan to speak about Somalia saying "oh c'mon we got a voice"...no, he just does music and he sticks with that. So yes, you're very ignorant. Don't make a false statement when you're totally clueless.

[TheNadra]

@JGSS89 i am surrounded with the most uneduated somalians so that gives me the right. please...somalians like him b/c his somalian...and y would he say that?!? lol i dont mean to hate on somalis (b/c i'm half somalian) but we got to face the facts...that they are all TOTALLY stupid LOOOL like u...

[JGSS89]

@TheNadra Whatever man, just because one of your parent and their family are a bunch of uneducated somali people doesn't mean they are all. I know some highly educated somali persons. They come from a very poor country what do you expect, all doctors?! Get it right, nothing gives you the right to look down on people and putting them down like you're doing IS hating. You're so ignorant and pathetic, can't believe I'm wasting time replying your sorry ass. Haha, who's stupid now, bastard.

[TheNadra]

@JGSS89 wow ur so pissed...dont take to the heart....LOOL..sry man

[TheNadra]

@JGSS89 wow ur so pissed...dont take it to the heart....LOOL..sry man

[MisssCurious]

@TheNadra

Hater, dont focus urself on Somalis tht should do the trick.. peace out

[ayjntghost]

mi love disszzz song

[xMamush]

the thing that i love bout knaan is the fact that he uses somali rhythm in his music something new to hip hop.. i love it.. and it reminds me of back home in Oromia.

[LaughingGoon]

Damn K'naan, you are so inspirational, and amazing with your words. You're pretty easy on the eyes too. ;)

[somaligurl100]

Dayyummm! He is still good even when he is live! Mann your great Knaan! Best somali singerr ever ..... other than my mom (sorry .... and my aunt!) LoL!!

[MrGuugaalre]

hoobal haber gidir ah , oo xaraan ku heysta  dunida, SAMTERKA ADUUNKA

WHERE MICHEL JACKSON

[sulekha722]

@MrGuugaalre walaal why do u have to mention his clan...that has nothing to do with him being sucessful!oh yeah  and Micheal jackson passed away!

[MrGuugaalre]

@MrGuugaalre sulikha walaal ,  i learn from them

if i were singer , all keynaanis tribe , would listed to me , why should i be like rabit with long horn

i will not lsiten even hasan adan samter any more

[fardsowz]

cool this songs

[fardsowz]

cool

[dazebhen1]

why is he using a beat from tilahun (an Ethiopian singer) ?????

[Tugrulejder]

@dazebhen1 representhing Africa maybe?

he is african

[bobowetu]

@dazebhen1

Why not?

It's just a brother playing an other brother's rythm.

Did the Ethiopian artist complained?

You should be proud of your brothers cooperatiing;in music there's no border.

A brother using a brother's rythm :

[dazebhen1]

@bobowetu hey stop preaching ....i never said i was angry in anyway...all i asked was the reason...there certain things fresh and certain things mesh

[72KLEW]

@sanmanzt no use in cryin about it now the native Americans were rapped and had there land taken from them I am half Mexican and Indian and the Indian crowd has gotten over it so the Africans should to god teaches forgiveness and we are his students so listen to your teacher

[bobowetu]

@72KLEW

Forgive but do not forget.

Let my people sing their blues and rap their lives,nothing wrong with it.It's a way of healing.

Visit the reservations in Us and Canada then you will learn that the oppression is not over yet and that the "Indian crowd" has gotten over it.

Could you tell the Jews that there is no use in crying about the holocaust...?Now

think of centuries of slavery,

[Keezih]

@bobowetu

somalis were never slaves if you were talking about them. actually somalis even had slaves wasnt right ofcourse and yea its worse than some jews whining over deaths but they were also discriminated for houndreds of years and threated as second class or less because of their heritage

[IronXXXMaiden1]

@bobowetu

i dun get why people can be sad over something that happened to their race that never affected them.

With all the sad stuff happening i think people have plenty of current stuff to be upset about, lets not take something a long time ago and add it to today's sadness esp when you have no reason to be sad about it. Forgive me if im wrong but i dont think sadness is a gene that gets passed down.

[booljayj]

@IronXXXMaiden1 The point is that a lot of those old things are still happening now. Ethnic minorities still are oppressed, slaves are bought and sold, and people are killed because of their religion. If these are also things that happened to your ancestors, they impact you that much harder.

[LiBlub1]

@bobowetu What ever gold he touches turns to sand, the white burns and loots most every land.

[kanatsizkanatli]

@bobowetu It was the Arabs who enslaved Africans and sold them mercilessly to the West

Don't forget that!

[duckymv]

@kanatsizkanatli you're kidding right?

[FantasticFawzia]

@kanatsizkanatli Actuallyyy... Somali'ss were never slaves for other countries. We just enslaved eachothers tribes... I think you may be thinking of sudan? They were enslaved by Egyptians.

[mawlidjikako]

knaan

[worsethanamistake]

it's brilliant and funny

[xHippieHunter]

wow he sucks...

[jabshe09]

@xHippieHunter shut the fuck up

Knaan the best

[lowertown]

wara my somali brothers wats he saying on the hook word 4 word i can understand a lil but someone reply

[maxieyellowbobpants]

k'naan got me singing in somali 

[TheBaaadOne]

@maxieyellowbobpants yeah me too.. and i have no fkin clou what i`m sayin

[Yaiyasmin]

Oh, you're so sweet! ;)

[Takeaminute1]

Great song



[shaaQQQQ]

k'NAAN AINT THE ONLY SOMALI RAPPER OUT THEIR THAT CAN GET LYRICAL

cHECK ME OUT!!!!

REAL TALK!!!!1111111

[somalian2122]

he's so awesome, and how he uses somali is so cool, i totally love his songs, th ones ith meanin nywaii

[evencool1]

He is so funny and intelligent.

[stevefullerdaddy]

This guy is a lyrical genius...I dont give a dam WHERE he's from or WHAT his name is..Greatness know no color, race or borders. He is staying true to his roots and thats the sign of a REAL artist...GOOD JOB MAN, BLessings from FdX....

[LeechedK]

estonians like all knaan songs nice:D

[67uh67]

@yahya456 k

[67uh67]

@yahya456 Idgaf, you can quit acting like it's a sacred meaning, and google it, smartass.

[67uh67]

@yahya456 kk brah. Whatever floats your boat. but you can look it up.

[horselover4033]

"and lets cooked it up we dont revergated" like that

[hoodblazin23]

K'naan is bringing many nationalities together hes great!God bless him

[67uh67]

@yahya456 You're an idiot. Just stop.

[sharmarkehassan]

somali language is combined of 7 different language which arabic is in it, actually somali language has around 60% of arabic words. he says na hoow zamzameey means yaa zamzam, sabaa7 nuureey means you bright like the morning shine which in arab is sabaa7 nuur.

but still we believe that somali was created before arabic,

[pashun88]

@sharmarkehassan 60% lol your not serious! I know we have some arabic words...But 60%? Wrong.

[hussam436]

ooooooooooooooooooo

[TheBlackHusband]

hvorfor sier du kuk på sommalisk myster

[MissySimpleM]

that language is so interesting... x)

[poolboyinla]

A song called America needs to sound better than this.

[alliauycortado]

NICE

[hollyforosshermanna]

Oh wow I love me this song so much! Asha Asha! Have no idea what that mean, but love the beat.

[maiyazion]

أنا في الحب...(i'm in love)

[talosh123456]

love him!

What language he sings?

It sounds like Arabic..

[miss15noor]

@talosh123456 No this is not Arabic !! may be Somalian..

[silner2215]

@miss15noor but if u lsn closely, dere r arabic words. :)

[miss15noor]

@silner2215 I tried but I couldn't find any Arabic word !! I'm sure that this is not Arabic :P :P

[silner2215]

@miss15noor then ur deaf

[miss15noor]

@silner2215 Excuse me !! I speak Arabic okay and I listened to him carefully, I think that you thought there are Arabic words because they contents the same letters we use.

[silner2215]

@miss15noor ur still a kid

[miss15noor]

@silner2215 Please give me one word at least 3mmo :P

I'm not a kid !

[silner2215]

@miss15noor he says saba7 al 5air!

[miss15noor]

@silner2215 yemken !! :P