K'Naan Somali Artist to Release Second Rap Album.

K'Naan will release his Troubadour sophomore album in January. The album was recorded at Tuff Gong studios and Bob Marley's home studio in Kingston, Jamaica last winter. Although the disc doesn't yet have a track list, you can hear first single "ABCs" on K'Naan's MySpace page. "ABCs" will also be used in the Madden NFL 09 video game.

"I'm here with Damian and Stephen Marley, my band, and my film maker friend Kim Chapiron," K'Naan wrote in a Feb. 13 MySpace blog entry. "I can't really talk too much about what's going on, but I can honestly say, it's sincere magic."

K'Naan was born in Somalia before his family immigrated to Canada. He released his The Dusty Foot Philosopher debut album in 2005.

You can see K'Naan, who's a practicing Muslim, with Orthodox Jewish reggae artist Matisyahu at Toronto's Phoenix Concert Theatre on Dec. 16 and at Montreal's Metropolis the next night.