K'Naan criticises cinema violence

Somali-born rapper K'Naan has criticised the way in which movies supposedly glamorise real-life violence.

The musician lived in Mogadishu during the Somali Civil War before fleeing with his family to Harlem and then moving to Toronto, Canada.

K'Naan told The Daily Telegraph: "I don't want to be disrespectful to anybody else's kind of struggle; I have lived in places in the US where a lot of people get killed.

"But there are scales of violence and not many places are comparable to Mogadishu. My frustration is how some people are making it into beautiful cinematic violence."

He added: "A lot of these kids have not seen real violence, and they have no concept of it. Real violence is ugly, people crumble when they get shot, it is not beautiful at all."

K'Naan recently featured on two tracks on Keane's Night Train EP and releases a new mix of 'Wavin Flag' as the Coca-Cola anthem for the 2010 FIFA World Cup on June 21.