{"id":11037,"date":"2012-06-06T05:53:41","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T13:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=11037"},"modified":"2012-06-06T05:53:41","modified_gmt":"2012-06-06T13:53:41","slug":"watch-knaan-on-flavorpill-sessions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2012-06\/watch-knaan-on-flavorpill-sessions\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch K&#8217;Naan on Flavorpill Sessions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2010-09\/knaan-from-mogadishu-to-york-to-austin\/\"><strong>One of our favorites<\/strong><\/a>, Somali-American <strong>K&#8217;Naan<\/strong>, recently helped de-fib the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flavorwire.com\/category\/partner-buzz\">Flavorpill Sessions<\/a>,<\/strong> the renewed unplugged-music-sessions from those smarty-pants folks over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flavorwire.com\/\"><strong>Flavorwire<\/strong> <\/a>(as an aside, Flavorpill is sponsored by Santa Barbara&#8217;s own <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/clk.atdmt.com\/IWC\/go\/399967157\/direct\/01\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sonos<\/a><\/strong>).\u00a0 Check out<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/knaanmusic.ning.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">K\u2019naan<\/a><\/strong>, who showed up with a full band to talk about his new album (<strong>Country, God, or the Girl<\/strong>) and to play a couple of older hits.\u00a0 The new album sounds decidedly more hip-hop, but still carries the melodic sensibilities that have made K&#8217;Naan beloved throughout the world.\u00a0 Check back with <strong>Flavorpill<\/strong> during the week for possible additional <strong>K&#8217;Naan<\/strong> performances.\u00a0 To see K&#8217;Naan perform the first single off the new album (as sung with <strong>Nellie Furtado<\/strong> on <strong>Letterman<\/strong>), go <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2012-02\/knaan-and-nellie-furtado-on-letterman\/\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>On the New Album<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/42158875\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/42158875\">Flavorpill Sessions &#8211; K&#8217;NAAN at Flavorpill HQ<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user6604888\">Flavorpill<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Take a Minute<\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/42158876\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/42158876\">Flavorpill Sessions &#8211; K&#8217;NAAN &#8220;Take A Minute&#8221;<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user6604888\">Flavorpill<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Until the Lion Learns to Speak<\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/42158874\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/42158874\">Flavorpill Sessions &#8211; K&#8217;NAAN &#8220;Until The Lion Learns to Speak&#8221;<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user6604888\">Flavorpill<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of our favorites, Somali-American K&#8217;Naan, recently helped de-fib the Flavorpill Sessions, the renewed unplugged-music-sessions from those smarty-pants folks over at Flavorwire (as an aside, Flavorpill is sponsored by Santa Barbara&#8217;s own Sonos).\u00a0 Check out K\u2019naan, who showed up with a full band to talk about his new album (Country, God, or the Girl) and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}