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1. Emcee Murdah
2. Crucial
3. Man I Used to Be
4. Crabbuckit
5. B-Boy Stance....
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6. Commandante
7. the Love Song...Windows
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8. Hallelujah
9. Clap Ur Hands
10. Dirty Water
11. One Blood
12. Papercutz
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k-os
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Joyful
Rebellion
(Astralwerks)
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k-os’ socially
aware raps and heartfelt melodies
captured the imagination of the widest
range of music fans and critics on
his debut Exit. So what does
he do for an encore? On Joyful
Rebellion, the much
anticipated follow-up, k-os elevates
his clever rhyme skills and keen sense
of musicianship, concocting an even
more unique brew of protest music.
There is good reason to believe that
this Toronto-bred emcee/vocalist is
about to take the rap world by storm.
Even with his first album, k-os was
fielding personal invites to tour
in North America and Europe with Grammy
winners such as India.Arie,
The Roots and Nelly
Furtado, as well as rap luminaries
De La Soul. He also collaborated
with The Chemical Brothers
on their “Get Yourself High”
hit. Even more impressive was k-os
winning “International Album
of the Year” honors at The 2003
Source Awards. This marked a watershed
moment for contemporary hip hop. For
once, music mattered more than where
an emcee hailed from, and it proved
that consumers hadn’t lost their
ability to discern real talent from
media hype.
While commercial rap has pushed some
of the music’s brightest lights
into flight-or-fight mode, it’s
clear that on Joyful Rebellion,
k-os intentionally chose the latter.
“Hip hop is an abandoned ship,
and its vanguards are moving on to
other things,” admits k-os.
“Everyone wants to be a rock
star, because they don’t know
how to take hip hop to the next level.”
Produced and written by k-os, Joyful
Rebellion draws heavily
from and seamlessly fuses together
the full range of musical experience;
from rap to jazz, rock and pop, blues
and reggae, and everything in between.
The first single off the new album,
“B-Boy Stance”
is k-os’ rap reclamation masterpiece
that lyrically embraces hip hop’s
storied past, and is even made to
sound like it could have been recorded
during rap’s Golden Age.
“the Love Song,”
is a memorable symphonic sonnet, in
which k-os implores youth to stand
up for their rights and convictions,
just as he does on the mic, despite
what the outside world might think.
Professing over sexy beats and DJ
scratches “this is not a love
song” while pleading with people
“not to get high off their own
supply” he is encouraging everyone
to not believe the hype, but believe
in your self.
Joyful Rebellion asks us ‘what’s
going on?’ in the Marvin Gaye
tradition, but with a contemporary
hip hop twist. It’s an album
sure to secure k-os’ place in
a progressive global rap movement
for audiences that appreciate “next
level” audio architecture and
conscious rhymes.
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