lennart
24-09-03, 23:45
Paris: "Sonic Jihad" finally out- Rapper thinks U.S. behind 9/11
Paris is burning
Eye.Net -Thursday September 18
The same morbid fascination that had me glued to the television set on Sept. 11, 2001 returned last week.
It wasn't because of the endless coverage of the second anniversary of the attacks or the recent videotape showing a sprightly Bin Laden in the hills.
On the eve of last week's anniversary, it was the hugely controversial cover of a new CD that had me riveted. Sonic Jihad (out Sept. 23) is the latest from Oakland-based rapper Paris and the cover features a jetliner about to slam into The White House.
http://www.cinderblock.com/Designs/GFM-1005.jpg
The cover doesn't represent the sentiments expressed in the entire disc, but it does jive with one jam that sparked a firestorm of controversy when it was posted on the net last year.
Incidentally, I have to say that in 16 years of covering hip-hop I have never heard anyone tackle issues like racism, black-on-black violence, police brutality, the state of hip-hop and international politics with such a hallucinatory fervour. Paris is in a league of his own when it comes to expressing one's self in such an uncompromising and unapologetic fashion.
But, back to the track. It's called "What Would You Do?" and it features this line: "So, I'm a say it for the record we the ones that planned it / Ain't no other country took a part or had their hand in it / Just a way to keep you scared so you think you need 'em / Praising Bush while that killer takes away your freedom."
http://new.globalfreepress.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/18/0950253&mode=thread
:D
Je kan op die pagina trouwens allerlei anti-oorlogsliedjes downloaden. :fparty:
Paris is burning
Eye.Net -Thursday September 18
The same morbid fascination that had me glued to the television set on Sept. 11, 2001 returned last week.
It wasn't because of the endless coverage of the second anniversary of the attacks or the recent videotape showing a sprightly Bin Laden in the hills.
On the eve of last week's anniversary, it was the hugely controversial cover of a new CD that had me riveted. Sonic Jihad (out Sept. 23) is the latest from Oakland-based rapper Paris and the cover features a jetliner about to slam into The White House.
http://www.cinderblock.com/Designs/GFM-1005.jpg
The cover doesn't represent the sentiments expressed in the entire disc, but it does jive with one jam that sparked a firestorm of controversy when it was posted on the net last year.
Incidentally, I have to say that in 16 years of covering hip-hop I have never heard anyone tackle issues like racism, black-on-black violence, police brutality, the state of hip-hop and international politics with such a hallucinatory fervour. Paris is in a league of his own when it comes to expressing one's self in such an uncompromising and unapologetic fashion.
But, back to the track. It's called "What Would You Do?" and it features this line: "So, I'm a say it for the record we the ones that planned it / Ain't no other country took a part or had their hand in it / Just a way to keep you scared so you think you need 'em / Praising Bush while that killer takes away your freedom."
http://new.globalfreepress.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/18/0950253&mode=thread
:D
Je kan op die pagina trouwens allerlei anti-oorlogsliedjes downloaden. :fparty: