DAM!!!
Who knew a group of three Palestinian young men from Lid could renew my faith in hip hop, a faith that was being battered to the ground by the strong, yet ho-hum, winds of banality and redundancy? I certainly didn't. But at the end of last week's concert "From Brooklyn to Palestine" at the BK's very own Southpaw, as hyperbolic as it sounds, I was a born again hip hopper.
To rap in a language foreign to the ears of the crowd, to successfully teach a packed house of mostly Americans how to chant Egyptian theatre rhymes, to be masters in call and response, to use beats and arabic samples that inspire non-Arabs to haz tease-hom, is quite a feat, and a testament to the charisma that oozes out of these men like "petrodollars" seem to ooze from the pockets of "the Arabs of Apple Dubai."
As you can tell, I was thoroughly impressed!
Arabian reggae-they do it all folks!
And the group's most popular single, "Men Erhabe"
*BONUS: Here's a standout performance from the night-by NYC Urban word poestess Tahani Salah:
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Yes, they are three ISRAELIS. If they are not, let them denounce their citizenship. The silence speaks wonder about hypocrisy.
Article about DAM here.
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