Bush’s advisor steps up beside him in the oval office: “Mr. president, we’ve
just had word from Iraq, 3 Brazilian soldiers were killed in Iraq today”
The president’s jaw drops, he puts his head in his hands and silence fills the
room. “My god! How many is three brazillion?”
Stone-hurling and stick-swinging teenage Hamas supporters chased the rap group P.R. (’Palestinian Rappers’) off the stage. As pioneers of Palestinian hip-hop from the Gaza Strip, P.R. have learned the hard way that hip-hop is not popular among conservative muslims and Hamas (the Islamic Resistance Movement) – regardless that their rap lyrics are in support of the Palestinian cause
Recently, at one of P.R.’s gigs, somebody threw a grenade at the concert hall. It mainly just made a loud bang, though. Nobody was hurt.
Then, on 14 September, 2005, as the official Palestinian rally for Gaza’s “liberation” from Israel was winding down, the group was performing at the former Jewish settlement of Neve Dekalim, with the crowd swaying to the booming beat … until suddenly a few angry Islamists in the back fired their Kalashnikovs in the air.
According to a report by the French news agency AFP, a man screamed a Hamas-inspired chant about resistance, and a crowd roared back “Allahu Akbar” (God is Great), people lunged toward the stage, police fired warning shots and shoved the rappers into a cab as stone-hurling and stick-swinging teenage Hamas supporters chased after them. Furious over their escape, the mob stoned police, yelling “the national security forces have sold our blood for the dollar” and the two sides skirmished for nearly 30 minutes across Neve Dekalim.
3aleh el 3awad w minno el 3awad…
A Mahjoobian discussion (for lack of a better word) took place, check it out
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DAM is the leading Palestinian rap group, nevertheless it’s the first Arab rap group in the Middle East, the group is creating and performing since 1998. All three members of the group were born and raised in the slams of Lod.
The music of DAM is influenced by the continuous Israeli-Palestinian conflict as well as from the struggle for equality of Arab-Israeli. Their music expresses identification with the suffering of their Palestinian siblings.
Tamer Nafar and The Dam Crew from Lod Sing and Protest
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SlingShot Hip Hop is a documentary film that focuses on the daily life of Palestinian rappers living in Gaza, the West Bank and inside Israel. It aims to spotlight alternative voices of resistance within the Palestinian struggle and explore the role their music plays within their social, political and personal lives. Coming 2006.
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the Philistines
Quality hip-hop with a purpose
The Philistines started thumping beats in their mothers’ wombs. They came out rapping, and have been delivering hip-hop for the masses ever since.
The group formed when emcees B-Dub and Ragtop (Palestinian-American brothers who came up in East Tennessee) decided to stop messing around and put out an album. The result, the 17-track Self Defined, is an eclectic blend of beats and tight, conscious lyrics–inspired and informed by the harsh realities facing today’s hip-hop community. Along for the ride are beatmestier B.Swisha and the Filipino Filistino, Flip (aka Cookie Jar).
Since the album dropped in October, 2003, the P has performed in shows and benefits from Guatemala to Jersey. The relocation of the group to L.A. and the addition of the infamous DJ Afterwords has sparked a slew of fresh tracks that continue the legacy begun in Self Defined
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