Man I Used to Be

"Man I Used to Be" is a 2005 top 20 hit single in Canada by Canadian alternative rapper k-os, featured as the third track on his 2004 album Joyful Rebellion.

Music video

The video begins with breakdancers in the hallway of an apartment building and k-os is in his room packing to leave, taking a box of seemingly great importance. k-os takes a taxi and two men fight a duel by dancing on the sidewalk. A bag man, pushing a cart with a neon light, sings the lyrics and k-os riding in the taxi, disappears by opening his box, which teleports him to the cockpit of a spacecraft in space. Footage of Maasai are seen on k-os's screen and the spacecraft enters warp drive.

Chart performance

The song peaked at #12 on the Canadian Billboard Hot 100, making it K-os's highest reaching single. The single also reached #1 on the Muchmusic Countdown in 2005. The song tells the story of a man who has gone through rough times and wishes to be back the way he was originally. According to the Joyful Rebellion liner notes, the song is indeed about Michael Jackson in particular, as well as k-os himself (and people in general).

In 2014, the track appeared on the French SNEP Charts.^[2]

Peak chart positions

Chart (2005,2014)	Peak position
Canadian Singles Chart	12
France (SNEP)^[3]	52

References

External links

k-os

Studio albums	Exit (2002) Joyful Rebellion (2004) Atlantis: Hymns for Disco (2006) Yes! (2009) BLack on BLonde (2013) Can't Fly Without Gravity (2015)

Compilations	Collected (2007) The Trill: A Journey so Far (2009)

Mixtapes	The Anchorman Mixtape (2010)

Singles	"Musical Essence" "Rise Like the Sun" "Heaven Only Knows" "Superstarr Pt. Zero" "B-Boy Stance" "Crabbuckit" "Man I Used to Be" "The Love Song" "Crucial" "Dirty Water" "ELEctrik HeaT - the seekwiLL" "Sunday Morning" "Flypaper" "Born to Run" "Equalizer" "4, 3, 2, 1" "Burning Bridges" "I Wish I Knew Natalie Portman" "Zambony" "Holy Cow" "The Dog Is Mine" "NYCE 2 KNOW YA" "C.L.A"

Featured singles	"Top of the World" "Get Yourself High"

Related articles	Discography

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