#231 K'Naan & Opinions on The Hold Steady
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Sound Opinions
4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2010
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Somali-born performer K’Naan visits the show to talk about poetry, politics and hip hop. Plus, he and his band perform live in the studio.
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| 0:00.0 | Good music is what we want to hear. |
| 0:05.0 | What do you mean? Good music. It's what we dance to, what our children will dance to. |
| 0:09.0 | And if you don't want to play it, then take your records and go home. |
| 0:13.0 | Did you have a band, good or bad? |
| 0:20.0 | It's a great band, it's a bad band, it's like pizza. Did you have a band? Good or Bad? |
| 0:23.0 | It's a great band, it's a bad band, it's like pizza, baby. |
| 0:25.0 | It's good no matter if there's music in the air. Before he was an internationally known rapper he was a poet in his native Somalia. |
| 0:40.0 | We talked to Canaan about his journey. |
| 0:42.0 | Plus the Hold Steady has a new album and a new lineup. we talked to Canaan about his journey. |
| 0:42.5 | Plus the Hold Steady has a new album and a new lineup. |
| 0:45.8 | I'm Jim De Regattis, and I'm Greg Kot. |
| 0:48.2 | Stay tuned for that and more, today on Sound Opinions. |
| 0:57.0 | From W.E.Z, Chicago and American Public Media, you're listening to sound opinions. |
| 1:05.0 | Now it's time for some music news. Take a look at the Great Street and don't see the scene. |
| 1:17.0 | Remember how great it should be. |
| 1:22.0 | The thing is what it was. |
| 1:24.0 | Shets I'm full of the fashion. |
| 1:27.0 | People don't know what they want. |
| 1:30.0 | The street that was a part of the British monarchy. |
| 1:39.0 | A rare bit of good news for the music industry, Jim, we've been documenting the precipitous decline in music |
| 1:44.9 | sales for the last decade in the legit music industry as a result of all this rogue file sharing |
| 1:50.3 | that's going on out there. |
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