Talk:K'naan

message: It says that he was in prison in the Wikipedia article, but the article it references as a source does *not* say that.
The source article seems to imply that he spent time with prison, but later clarifies that he considers people lost to prison and deportation to have been problematic for him, so the more likely correct interpretation is that he had trouble dealing with friends in prison in Canada, not that he spent time there himself.
I don't know whether he spent time there or not, but I know that the Article does not state that conclusively.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.113.69.97 (talk) 06:32, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Prison? 

message: 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)
replies: text: K'naan is Habar Gidir Hawiye, but his verses have nothing to do with clan politics so it should probably be left out of the article. Ingoman (talk) 17:53, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

text: Thank you, can you cie a souce for this? -- Gyrofrog  (talk) 14:15, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clan affiliation 

message: 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)
replies: text: Okay, it said (without a reference) "k'naan" means "traveler" in Somali. Kaynaan means travel, migration, so I assume this is what was meant. Can't give the Somali pronunciation, as Somali vowel letters are ambiguous. It could either be /kæinæːn/ or /kɑɪnɑːn/. kwami (talk) 20:20, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  I don't know if it was correct, but I heard a radio announcer pronounce it as "kuh-NON". -- Gyrofrog  (talk) 20:43, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  pronunciation 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Black musician 

message: Per WP:EL, the external links section of an article is supposed to contain only the most primary band-specific websites: for most artists, that means their web page, their myspace page if necessary, and almost nothing else.
Links to interviews in individual media outlets may be cited as references, but as they're not primary websites for the topic, they don't belong under external links. Accordingly, I've removed the following links from the external links section:
*K'naan on colonialism in NOW
*K'naan interview in Socialist Review, July/August 2007.
*K'naan interview with Consequence of Sound, August 2008
*K'naan in SPIN's January '09 Issue
*CBC article
*Interview on NPR Music
*K'naan on Democracy Now!
*Exclaim Magazine cover story
These can be readded to the article as references for individual statements, as appropriate, which is why I'm adding them here so that they're still available for consultation — but external links isn't the place for them. Bearcat (talk) 17:43, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links 

message: Similarly, references are to be added to the article by enclosing the individual citation in ref tags directly after the statement that's being referenced to it, not by simply adding  links directly to the references section of the article. For the same reason, the following have also been removed from the article for the time being and may be readded in proper format as appropriate:
*  K'Naan's opinion article for the Black History Month 2007 issue of Now.
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* K'Naan's performance and workshop activity in the UK, 2006.
- Bearcat (talk) 17:46, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: References

message: I'm not sure about calling his performances exclusively electronic. He was on Democracy Now! on August 6 with an acoustic ensemble. http://www.democracynow.org/2009/8/6/somali_canadian_rapper_knaan_on_journey  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.228.36.245 (talk) 13:31, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Exclusive Performances? 

message: A person can only be described as Canadian if they hold citizenship, not merel;y residency. Does evidence exist that K'naan is a Canadian citizen? If not he must only be described as a Somoli. 90.213.102.169 (talk) 19:42, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Granted, but after 20 years the burden of evidence would be on the no-he's-not-a-citizen claim, not the yes-he-is one. Especially when it's coming from an anonymous IP with no prior or subsequent edit record — and who doesn't know how to spell Somali, either. Bearcat (talk) 08:15, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  In any case, if he has citizenship, wouldn't the best way to describe him be "Somali-born Canadian"; since "Somali-Canadian" would imply he was born in Canada from Somali parents? I'm not sure if it's correct, but that's the usage I've seen. MaGnUs was here! (talk) 01:24, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Canadian?

message: I've posed this question elsewhere before, without getting a response. But given that they're both from Mogadishu, both moved to Toronto right around the same time, have the same last name and even went to the 2009 Polaris gala together, what if any relation is K'naan to Yasmin Warsame? Brother and sister? Cousins? Just two random unrelated people who have a couple of purely coincidental things in common? And how am I the only Wikipedian ever to ask this? Bearcat (talk) 08:22, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Somalis don't have last names, their "middle" name is their father's name and their "last" name is their paternal grandfather's name.  For instance Maxamed Cabdi Ali's son Axmed would be Axmed Maxamed Cabdi, and Axmed Maxamed Cabdi's son Ali would be Ali Axmed Maxamed.  This is further confused by the fact that Somalis will often "go by" a nickname, which is put where their patronymics would go.  So if Axmed Maxamed Cabdi has a nickname of say, Dheere (Big) then he would be identified as Axmed Dheere (Big Axmed) in addition to his real name.  Then of course westerners will make things even more confusing by thinking their first patronymic is their middle name and omitting it, or address them as "Mr Cabdi" in the case of our hypothetical Axmed Maxamed Cabdi. Ingoman (talk) 01:24, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Question 

message: I haven't been following this page, so maybe there is a reason for this, but I was just wondering...
Is there a reason why the 2004 Knaan album My Life Is a Movie is not listed on this page, or in the K'naan discography?
Kid Bugs (talk) 12:57, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  My Life Is a Movie not in Discography? 

message: What exactly is the point of listing this "dispute" with ko's? k'naan by all accounts is about a few billion times more popular than ko's.  Shouldn't "disputes" with fellow rappers only be mentioned if they're in the same proverbial league?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.111.179.37 (talk) 07:31, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  ko's dispute 

message: curiouser and curiouser:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/music/charity-chief-apologizes-for-verbal-attack-on-knaan-staffer/article1725145/  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Worldgirl111 (talk • contribs) 03:54, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I removed it based on Wikipedia policy (WP:NOTNEWS) and Wikipedia:Notability (events).  Do we really need to document that a concert was canceled?  Will this still be relevant, say, a month from now? I think WP:BLP also applies, and may in fact trump all other concerns. (Meanwhile you may wish to review what is not vandalism.) Thank you, -- Gyrofrog  (talk) 16:02, 23 September 2010 (UTC)

text: P.S. here's the specific wording from the WP:NOT policy. -- Gyrofrog  (talk) 16:14, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  SFU concert 

message: The Arabic rendering is put as Kin‘ān (or كنعان) but the Somali alphabet is not the same as English, "Keynaan" in Arabic is Keynān (or قينان).
If it was supposed to be Kin‘ān it would be spelled Kencaan in Somali (ʿayn is spelled with a "c" in Somali).  Kin‘ān is the correct Arabic rendering of Kanaan, but his name isn't Kanaan it's Keynaan, which is a Somali word it means Traveller. Ingoman (talk) 01:51, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Arabic rendering of name 

message: This should be K'NAAN, not K'naan, based on all of the major sources for this artist. I thought K'naan was correct, but after seeing K'NAAN on Last.fm, have checked his name elsewhere and it turns out that it's supposed to be block capitals. See the Google results for his name for evidence of this. Esteffect (talk) 01:36, 20 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Per MOS:TM we're supposed to go by what most reliable sources say, and if there's disagreement then we use standard English formatting. You've linked to a Google search, but for reliable published sources it's really best to use Google News. If you do that, you'll see that all major Canadian newspapers write it as K'naan. I see the Vancouver Sun, The Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, even The New York Times, all rendering it with lowercase letters. Billboard is a bit of an exception, writing it with a capital K and N followed by lowercase letters subsequently. Paul Erik (talk)(contribs) 05:22, 20 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Case of name 

message: Should a sentence or two be added about the music issue with Mitt Romney? Milesgilbert (talk) 00:02, 3 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dispute 

message: For the hell of it, here is Keynaan Cabdi Warsame in the Osmanya alphabet: 𐒏𐒗𐒕𐒒𐒛𐒒 𐒋𐒖𐒁𐒆𐒘 𐒓𐒖𐒇𐒈𐒖𐒑𐒗
:Cool. Middayexpress (talk) 17:29, 22 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  In Osmanya 

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message: Is K'naan the same K'naan who is listed in the credits of Extrapolations (TV series) as the Consulting Producer? 173.88.246.138 (talk) 01:17, 6 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Extrapolations (TV series)]]