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Syrian Revolution and Eslam Jawaad’s response – “Dudd al-Nizam” (Syria)
This post (below) by Greg Schick, the founder of the site World Hip-Hop Market(dot)com, and it concerns the response to the Syrian revolution by Syrian-Lebanese rapper Eslam Jawaad – whose debut album ‘Mammoth Tusk’ I wrote about for Menassat(dot)com, World Hip-Hop Market, UMen and that was republished here on Beats and Breath in its original…
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Expanding the Dialog: Omar Offendum’s debut album ‘SyrianamericanA’
Syrian-American rap super hero? Homeboy from a street called Straight? Omar Offendum sat down with me recently to hash out what his new album gonna be like. Much love to this brother for what is an expanded rap attack at a time when we need a properly politicized voice straddling these two worlds of oriental…