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While staying with friends involved in hip hop, he began to experiment with recording guitar over drum beats and eventually laid some tracks in a recording studio. His parents recognized that KO was becoming serious about his music and helped to connect him with someone in the music business. By 2006
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KO edits his own videos and posts them to his YouTube channel. His video posts include official versions of his videos for the tracks "Capable", "Let's Blaze", "The Ballad of Jimmy Roscoe", "Kurt Kobain", "Bourbon (Crack Song)", and "Moving
Mountains" as well as remixes and live versions of various
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as a musical influence — "Kurt Kobain" is also the title of a single from his debut album. In the bio section of KO's official website he also states that he is "still influenced by
Toronto's underground rap community" and lists
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KO's musical style borrows elements from hip hop, folk, rock, R&B and reggae. His songs mainly feature vocals and acoustic guitar played over hip hop beats and his sound has been compared to that of musician
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