Even MORE Disturbing than Busta Rhymes “A-rab Money”

By Maytha

Self-neo-orientatlizing hip hop artist/producer Noose remixes Busta Rhymes’ offensive song by “arabizing” it and the accompanying music video to the song. 

Wonder what I mean by “arabizing” the song and hip hop culture? This is done by: wearing a kuffiyah (Arab gangsta cred), driving a benz (hip hop materialism cred), “brought up in the Jersey slums” (rags-to-riches/ghetto uplift cred) and inserting Arabic words from “massari” to “bab al Hara”(Arab culture cred). 
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMPTCd4HjxA]
My hyper critical self cannot see this as more than a cheap appropriation of hip hop gangsta posturing with a superficial “arab” twist. 
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