Archive for September, 2010
New Music: Trey Songz feat. Drake – The Usual
I missed this one when it leaked the other day but heard it tonight on Hot 97 but I’ve subsequently become obsessed with it playing it multiple times in a row which I do very rarely for music nowadays – sh-t is FIYA!!!!!
Music Video: The Narcicyst featuring Shadia Mansour – Hamdulillah
WATCH THIS!!! This is a look at the Muslim world that the mainstream media doesn’t really show you. Not only is the video beautifully shot but the song ain’t bad either. Here’s a backgrounder on it:
To say ‘Hamdulillah’ is to be grateful for what one has.
The images of the past decades have cast a veil on our identity as a people. We, as international brothers and sisters, are now witness to injustice in real time. We watch our Wars in HD.
It is time for us to claim our faces back.
This video is a global collaborative effort by 10 photographers- from London to Lebanon, Cairo To Canada, Abu Dhabi to America- to create a portrait of the New Global Citizens. They are DJs, MCs, poets, architects, teachers, doctors, parents and children. Most of all they are people.
Thank you to everyone that was involved. We are blessed to have each other.
The Narcicyst Featuring Shadia Mansour-Hamdulilah Gaza Remix by REVOLT
LYRICS
Bismillah, like the feeling when I miss Falah,
then wish to God in clouds to lift us all
Hamdulilah,
wonder if Bibi can ever see me, and
if I back to Basrah will it ever receive me,
Bismillah,
homies that have the time to talk,
Now I wish to stars that angel find Nawaf.
Hamdulillah,
I stand awed at the strength of my sister
Kiss her and thank God our mission is planned for us.
Bismillah,
mamati inti hayati,
moms the best one, hold her close to heart like my left lung
Hamdulillah,
for the truth in a being as beaming the moon queen you blessed my future to be with
Bismillah,
for the souls anguish, love,
and the moment my brothers programmed these drums,
Hamdulillah,
We put the truth to the test, proof that we’re blessed students of this music at best.
Bismillah,
Before I spit this bar, way Before Militants tried to split this law
Hamdulillah,
for every living day that we spend in the rays of the Shams,
why we praise the condemned…
Bismillah,
wish I could take it back and lift the harm, make a track erase the past that we miss and gone…
Hamdulillah,
He Spoke So Right we listening wrong living raw, more than a livid song Give it all
Bismillah,
So I don’t rely on an image or Man made divisions for land slave prison fraud,
Hamdulillah,
Excuse Me, If I use it loosely, forget to bow down and pray, how proud are they?
Bismillah,
hope you hear the whispers lil nas which stance should i sway when betrayed by wiswases….
forever hope this lasts and we live classic….
Bismillah,
means to will in God’s name, without the ball and the chain a slave falling to claim,
Bismillah,
will forever hold inner peace, Wicked streets cripple little being rippling through the middle east
Hamdulillah,
may God bless the dead and gone, forever strong a better song, breaking bitter bonds
Hamdulillah,
for this world, in this spot to this song with these words for hip-hop say
Bismilllah,
stay humble in rhymes in eyes that hate your hunger
its like a jungle sometimes it makes you wonder
Click HERE for more info on the video.
Related:
Haroon Siddiqui: Leave quotation of sacred texts to theologians – READ THIS!!! ESSENTIAL for anyone who subscribes to or even mildly sympathizes with the loony philosophies of jihadist Islamist extremists. [Toronto Star]
[via Grandgood]