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2937377, k-os - can't fly w/o gravity - august 28
Posted by kinetic94761180, Sun Jul-12-15 04:54 PM
first single:
https://soundcloud.com/kosofficial/crucify
fuck. yes.
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2937383, One of the best in the game.
Posted by TheRealBillyOcean, Sun Jul-12-15 05:59 PM
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2937487, this
Posted by boyd, Mon Jul-13-15 12:24 PM
https://soundcloud.com/kosofficial/crucify
is on repeat, right now
he is definitely in my top 5s
he have had me at b-boy stanze
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2942547, RE: this
Posted by spidey, Sun Aug-30-15 12:32 PM
Slick...
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2937846, really like this
Posted by obsidianchrysalis, Thu Jul-16-15 11:35 AM
I'll have to get the album once it comes out.
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2937916, last album was awful. hopefully this is better
Posted by BNueve, Thu Jul-16-15 08:43 PM
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2937919, Can’t Fly Without Gravity Track List.
Posted by balloon, Thu Jul-16-15 10:11 PM
1-Snapback
2-WiLD4TheNight (EgoLand)
3-Dance In Yo Car
4-Hussle & Flow
5-Get Up
6-Crucify
7-Vous Deux (Denzel Washington)
8-Boyz II Men feat. Saukrates, Kardinal Offishall, Choclair, King Reign, and Shad)
9-Rap Zealot
10-Spaceship
11-Turn Me Loose
12-Steel Sharpens Steel
13-Another Shot (A.S)
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2938013, Shad is really dope
Posted by 13Rose, Fri Jul-17-15 04:21 PM
People sleep on dude. I'm looking forward to this Canada without Drake posse cut.
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2937952, Sunday Morning is still my shit. I made a playlist of all his hot shit
Posted by legsdiamond, Fri Jul-17-15 09:28 AM
after listening to this single
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2942459, What's on your list??
Posted by Stadiq, Sat Aug-29-15 02:39 PM
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2942618, In order
Posted by legsdiamond, Sun Aug-30-15 09:11 PM
Exit (Call Me)
Patience
Higher
Superstarr Part 2
Superstarr Part zero
Man I Used to Be
Dirty Water
Flypaper
Sunday Morning
Mirror in the Sky
Born to Run
CatDiesel
Black Ice
4321
WhipC.R.E.A.M.
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2938135, looking forward to this
Posted by thediceoflife, Sat Jul-18-15 08:40 PM
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2942427, full album steam here
Posted by balloon, Sat Aug-29-15 10:33 AM
http://ca.complex.com/music/2015/08/stream-kos-cant-fly-without-gravity-premiere
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2942574, Love K-Os...one of the best
Posted by Sofian_Hadi, Sun Aug-30-15 03:56 PM
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2942731, ^^^ Crucify
Posted by bentagain, Tue Sep-01-15 12:50 AM
https://soundcloud.com/kosofficial/crucify
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2942744, dope
Posted by mista k5, Tue Sep-01-15 09:01 AM
like it more each listen. I wish more of the album had this sound. only listened once to the album so too early to give any good feedback as a whole. This song will definitely stay in rotation though.
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2943172, cool story on how he came up with "Crucify"
Posted by balloon, Thu Sep-03-15 11:56 AM
Songfacts: Well, talking about some great lyrics and coming up with them, the Cole Porter lyric you lifted for "Crucify," that's a phenomenal way to say it: "I crucify the verse." Can you talk about coming up with that song and if Cole Porter is an inspiration for you?
K-os: I heard that song when I went to see American Hustle. I'm very much a solo movie goer. If I have a free day and I've answered all the emails and I have nothing to do musically, I just go check a movie out. I remember here in Vancouver I went to a theater to see American Hustle a couple of years ago. I'm a huge Amy fan, huge Christian fan. And Jeremy Renner in that movie is amazing.
There's a part of the movie where Christian Bale starts befriending Jeremy Renner, even though it's kind of a setup. He's just befriending him. So Jeremy Renner takes him out for dinner, him and their wives. They have a great time and start drinking wine, they're partying. A couple songs come on, and there's this montage of them singing these songs.
One of the songs that comes on is this Ella Fitzgerald/Cole Porter song "It's De-Lovely." I'm sitting there in the movie theater looking at people like, are you guys hearing this?! This song?
People were watching the movie, but to me, as a rapper, as an emcee, to hear Ella Fitzgerald say, "Control your desire to curse while I crucify the verse," I immediately went on wi-fi, regardless of how annoying it was to people, and started Googling this song. I made all my little notes and saved all these links in my phone and continued watching the movie.
As soon as I got out of the movie, I went home and sampled the song, and I put the beat together in 15 to 20 minutes. Boom. And then the verses came really easy.
But I'd never heard someone sing that before. And to crucify the verse, I mean, what more could you want? There's so many metaphors in that: to say something so powerful that you kill it, for it to rise again. Or to do something so well that it ceases to exist, but in ceasing to exist, it's immortalized. There's so many ways to look at it.
http://www.songfacts.com/blog/interviews/k-os/
the rest of the interview is great read too
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