{"id":3039,"date":"2009-04-09T00:04:12","date_gmt":"2009-04-09T00:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=3039"},"modified":"2009-04-09T00:04:12","modified_gmt":"2009-04-09T00:04:12","slug":"2009-4-9-homeland-hip-hop-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=3039","title":{"rendered":"Homeland Hip-Hop"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">Had the great pleasure of seeing the Palestinian hip-hop group <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dampalestine.com\/main.html\">DAM<\/a> live in Brooklyn last night (alongside the fantastic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rebeldiaz.com\/\">Rebel Dia<\/a>z and many other talented artists). The show was a fund-raiser to send a delegation of Native American and Chicano youth activists to Palestine this summer; it was very interesting to me to hear the way in which US rappers from different ethnic backgrounds related their struggle against racism and oppression to that of the Palestinians.<\/p>\n<p>What was even more interesting was just to hear the music. Listening to DAM was humbling of course&#8211;I understood about 1 word out of 50&#8211;but their\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dampalestine.com\/main.html\">website<\/a>\u00a0offers a great feature where you can listen to the songs in Arabic and read the lyrics in English. One show-stopper they did was to rap the Arabic alphabet&#8211;each letter got a few lines using only words that started with that letter&#8211; forwards and back. And they were just great performers&#8211;funny, gutsy, charismatic. They&#8217;re featured prominently on the documentary <a href=\"http:\/\/slingshothiphop.com\/\">Sling Shot Hip-Hop<\/a>, which everyone I talk to says is fantastic, and which has just been released on DVD (but I think its availability is still limited). I will be watching this film soon, hopefully, as several friends picked up copies at the show.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">Had the great pleasure of seeing the Palestinian hip-hop group <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dampalestine.com\/main.html\">DAM<\/a> live in Brooklyn last night (alongside the fantastic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rebeldiaz.com\/\">Rebel Dia<\/a>z and many other talented artists). The show was a fund-raiser to send a delegation of Native American and Chicano youth activists to Palestine this summer; it was very interesting to me to hear the way in which US rappers from different ethnic backgrounds related their struggle against racism and oppression to that of the Palestinians.<br \/>\nWhat was even more interesting was just to hear the music. Listening to DAM was humbling of course&#8211;I understood about 1 word out of 50&#8211;but their\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dampalestine.com\/main.html\">website<\/a>\u00a0offers a great feature where you can listen to the songs in Arabic and read the lyrics in English. One show-stopper they did was to rap the Arabic alphabet&#8211;each letter got a few lines using only words that started with that letter&#8211; forwards and back. And they were just great performers&#8211;funny, gutsy, charismatic. They&#8217;re featured prominently on the documentary <a href=\"http:\/\/slingshothiphop.com\/\">Sling Shot Hip-Hop<\/a>, which everyone I talk to says is fantastic, and which has just been released on DVD (but I think its availability is still limited). I will be watching this film soon, hopefully, as several friends picked up copies at the show.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[72],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3039"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}