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Ian Kamau

Canadian rapper

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ17386076 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ian Kamau (born Ian Prieto-Mctair) is a Canadian writer, hip hop and spoken word artist, writer, designer, and visual artist from Toronto, Canada. Kamau is the son of Trinidadian Canadian artists and filmmakers Claire Prieto and Roger McTair.

Kamau and his father created Loss, a multimedia performance of live music and video performed at The Apollo Stages at the Victoria Theatre in New York City.

Discography

Singles

An Ocean Between Us (2016)

You, I (2014)

Albums

Selected tracks from September 9 Vol. 1 & 2 (Mixtape) (2009)

Vol.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ian Kamau” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.