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Who Is K-OS? I saw one of his videos a couple of nights ago for a song called "the man i used to be"? I think that's what it was called. I really liked it. What do you guys know about him? What is his album like? I got the impression that he sings as well as raps. | |
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He's a little bit of both. He did this hot track called "Superstarr (pt. 0)" on his first album, Exit. It flipped an old house track, "Hot Music (Pal Joey Remix)" by Soho and it was tight.
He's like a less pretentious Wyclef. Good night, sweet Prince | 7 June 1958 - 21 April 2016
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Raised by Jehovah's Witness parents in locales as disparate as Toronto and Trinidad, it was no surprise that Kheaven Brereton, aka K-Os (pronounced: chaos) was a bit different than your average MC. A singer as well as a rhymer, and a producer to boot, K-Os proved on his debut album Exit (Astralwerks, 2002) that being preachy didn't have to mean being boring. The LP stood out dramatically with lush, instrument-driven arrangements to go with the traditional hip-hop elements of drum programming, samples, and the like. Acoustic guitar and piano marked the single "Heaven Only Knows"; dub and reggae influences tinged "Freeze." Many of the tracks found the rapper singing, so much so that an argument could be raised about the genre to which K-Os in fact belonged. And that was just the way he liked it. A tour to support Exit stretched from late 2002 through summer 2003; the dates saw K-Os performing with such hip-hop luminaries as India.Arie and Floetry. Exit went on to pick up International Album of the Year at the 2003 Source Awards. K-Os returned in September '04 with the equally ambitious Joyful Rebellion. | |
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