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After listening to this song, it makes me misses World Cup so much. When the World Cup still on, everybody talks about it.

Found out about the singer,K’naan, who is a Somalian. He is a Muslim and likes hip hop and rap, when one day his father send him to US.

The meaning of this song, is very touching. Got this from Wikipedia.org

“The song’s celebratory performance belies the tragic first verse where K’naan recounts the experience when an 11-year-old K’naan and some childhood friends were attacked and fired on by gunmen in Mogadishu while they were playing. K’naan was not injured but his three friends were all shot dead. The song’s chorus — “When I get older/ I will be stronger/ They’ll call me freedom/ Just like a waving flag” — is a bold, self-affirming response to this experience.

That K’naan created the song “Waving Flag” out of those circumstances is seen to be of great value and interest to the track: inextricably linked to his own story, but ultimately not defined or restricted by it. “At some point it becomes a song,” says K’naan. “There probably was a time when it was hard to look back on that experience, but then you write it and you make it a melody and all you have left is a beautiful melody and it’s a song now. It’s sculpted, it’s made, it’s art, so it’s fine. I have redrawn my whole life that way.”

Loves the song…