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Straight Outta Somalia
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Touré is a columnist for The Daily Beast. He's also an NBC contributor and the author of Never Drank the Kool-Aid, Soul City, and The Portable Promised Land. He is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone, was CNN's first pop culture correspondent, and was the host of MTV2's Spoke N Heard. His writing has appeared in the New Yorker and the New York Times.
New hip-hop sensation K'naan, a Somali refugee, overcame a gun-toting childhood to rap about peace and love. He talks to Touré about pirates, and how U.S. "thugs" have nothing on him.
The Thinking Man’s Rapper
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Touré is a columnist for The Daily Beast. He's also an NBC contributor and the author of Never Drank the Kool-Aid, Soul City, and The Portable Promised Land. He is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone, was CNN's first pop culture correspondent, and was the host of MTV2's Spoke N Heard. His writing has appeared in the New Yorker and the New York Times.
In a rare interview, Touré talks with Black Thought-front man for The Roots and the new house MC of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon-about what Chuck D. taught him about race, why rapping is like jumping rope, and the reasons behind his rhymes.
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