Man I Used to Be

"Man I Used to Be" is a song by Canadian alternative rapper k-os. It was released in January 2005 as a single from his 2004 album Joyful Rebellion. The song's music video won Best Rap Video, Best Cinematography and Best Direction at the 2005 MuchMusic Video Awards.^[3] The song was nominated for Single of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2006.^[4] In 2022, the song was certified gold by Music Canada.^[5]

The video, directed by Micah Meisner, begins with break dancers 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 hails a taxi outside of the Hotel Waverly 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 is seen on k-os's screen and the spacecraft enters warp drive.