The Dopest Lyrical New Era Emcee: KAAN (Knowledge Above All Nonsense)

1to392831weretaken said:

Fuck. Yeah. Thank you! Just listened to the first one so far, but this is going to be in my ears all day today while tearing out and re-framing a wall.

Like a time machine back to 1996.

Edit: I'm laughing because I wrote that last line before hearing the second song is him rapping over a mid-nineties Craig Mack beat. I'm fine with that.

Respect.

KAAN is the most lyrical emcee I have heard by far.

KAAN is very versatile on the mic able to switch up his flows and cadences at the drop of a dime.

KAAN raps over old school hip hop beats as well as puts out original music.

A lot of his fast rap songs you need a lyrics video in order to catch everything that he is saying.

It all makes some sense and isn't just a lot of mumbo jumbo.

Plus, he raps about real life particulars and relevant societal subject material. KAAN is the anti materialistic mumble rapper.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaZSYoeXg6Y
KAAN- Bars

1to392831weretaken said:

I'm not a fan of any of his original stuff I've heard so far. I know this sounds "old man yells out cloud," but I can't stand the direction rap has taken, with mumble rap and stop/start cadences. I like bars, I like flow. I'm a huge fan of most of the songs where KAAN raps over old 90s beats (your list here really did play like a "best of" relative to his other stuff that I've heard so far).

I gave up on his YouTube channel and just started treating this thread as my playlist. Thanks again.

The Good Book and Lost Kings are two of his newer songs...

KAAN has songs for everyone take from it what you like.

I don't like all of his newer songs either but he is the most talented emcee today in my mind.