Iraq – BEATS AND BREATH

May 20, 2015

Revisiting the Third Rail: Arab rappers negotiate revolution

THIS WAS THE ONE AND ONLY EPISODE OF AN INTERVIEW SERIES (‘On the Real’) FEATURED ON WORLD HIP HOP MARKET (MARCH, 2013). THIS ARTICLE FEATURES AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH SYRIAN-AMERICAN PRODUCER AHMED KHOUJA WHO PRODUCED THE ARAB RAP COMPILATION ‘KHAT THALETH’ (“THIRD RAIL”) THAT WAS RELEASED WORLDWIDE IN THE SPRING OF 2013. IT WAS UNFORTUNATELY…

Arab Hip-Hop, Commentary, Community Action, Culture, Film, hip-hop, Interviews, Local Scenes, Video

Ahmed Khouja, Arab Hip-Hop, Arab Rap, Arab Rap Diaspora, boikutt, Dub Snakkr, egypt, El Rass, Iqaa, Iraq, Jordan, Khat Thaleth, lebanon, Mazen el Sayed, middle-east, Palestine, Sayyed Darwish, Shar, Shiiq, syria, Touffar, tunisia
August 11, 2011

Middle East’s Lyrical Bomber: Author, Actor, Husband, MC – The Narcicyst

Beats and Breath continues to look at the Arab uprisings and the rise of Arab hip-hop, releasing uncensored interviews with key members of the Arab hip-hop massive -much of the material archived during the production of the 30-min Beats and Breath/Free Speech Radio News radio documentary Rhymes and Revolution that aired on July 4. In…

Arab Hip-Hop, Culture, hip-hop, Magazine Articles

#jan25, Arab Rap, Arab Rap Diaspora, Arabic hip hop, Basra, Diatribes of a Dying Tribe, Iraq, Montreal, omar offendum, P.H.A.T.W.A., The Arab Summit, The Last Arabs, the narcicyst
May 5, 2011

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…

Arab Hip-Hop, Commentary, Culture, hip-hop, Magazine Articles

Bashar Al Assad, BBC, Civil War, eslam jawaad, Fuck the Police, Greg Schick, Iraq, Khaled Sid Mohand, mammoth tusk, NWA, Popular Revolt, Syrian revolution, Syrian uprising, World Have Your Say, World Hip-Hop Market
January 22, 2010

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…

Arab Hip-Hop, Culture, hip-hop, Interviews, Magazine Articles

Arab Hip-Hop, beats and breath, eslam jawaad, Iraq, N.O.M.A.D.S., omar offendum, ragtop, syrianamericana, the narcicyst

Tag: Iraq

Revisiting the Third Rail: Arab rappers negotiate revolution

Middle East’s Lyrical Bomber: Author, Actor, Husband, MC – The Narcicyst

Syrian Revolution and Eslam Jawaad’s response – “Dudd al-Nizam” (Syria)

Expanding the Dialog: Omar Offendum’s debut album ‘SyrianamericanA’