Back To The Lab Again
August 31st, 2007
lets change it up a lil. take a lil break from talib, common, kanye
introducing… okayplayer artist k-os!
K-Os Biography:
Raised by Jehovah’s Witness parents in locales as disparate as Toronto and Trinidad, it was no surprise that Kheaven Brereton, aka k-os (pronounced: chaos) was a bit different than your average MC. A singer as well as a rhymer, and a producer to boot, k-os proved on his debut album, Exit (Astralwerks, 2002), that being preachy didn’t have to mean being boring. The LP stood out dramatically with lush, instrument-driven arrangements to go with the traditional hip-hop elements of drum programming, samples, and the like. Acoustic guitar and piano marked the single “Heaven Only Knows”; dub and reggae influences tinged “Freeze.” Many of the tracks found the rapper singing, so much so that an argument could be raised about the genre to which k-os in fact belonged. And that was just the way he liked it. A tour to support Exit stretched from late 2002 through summer 2003; the dates saw k-os performing with such hip-hop luminaries as India.Arie and Floetry. Exit went on to pick up International Album of the Year at the 2003 Source Awards. K-os returned in September 2004 with the equally ambitious Joyful Rebellion, a record whose sales hit almost double-platinum levels. After writing and performing a song, “Burning to Shine,” with the CBC Orchestra (a process that was documented on the network) in 2005, k-os released Atlantis: Hymns for Disco the following year.
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haha nm some kweli too & common vid
Talib Kweli - Bobby James 2007 Remix
- gowhere?
Common/Kanye News
August 23rd, 2007
And if your one of the many people becoming swept up in the 50/Kanye rivalry that will culminate the week of September 11, it may shock you that they were on the same stage and performed in New York just last night! As weird as that may sound, 50, Kanye, Jay-Z, Diddy, & Swizz Beatz helped make hip-hop history Wednesday night as they joined Screamfest Tour headliners T.I. & Ciara on stage, pleasantly surprising the 20,000+ Madison Square Garden attendees. Ciara and T.I. switched off sets and performed their collaborations with their respective features (Ciara & 50 for “Can’t Leave ‘Em Alone” and T.I. & Jay for “Watch What You Say To Me”) and more and more of the superstar guests came out to perform their own hits and ending with T.I. closing his show with “What You Know” and “Big Things Poppin’ (Do It)”. Literally all the above guests were on the stage at the same time w/ 50 and Kanye pounding fists along with the others. Simply an awesome sounding event that I definitely wish I was at. Check out the full mtv.com story here.
Finally, Common has been added to the list of performers for the VMAs on September 9th already joining Kanye West and a host of others. It should also be an entertaining event that I won’t want to miss. Go here for all your VMA nominees and news.
