Remember when Snoop was in Abu Dhabi? Well, the D-O-double Gizzle is extending his international music career to Egypt and starring with Tamer Hosni in a new music video titled “Si L Sayed” (Man of the house).
Not sure how this collaboration will go, but it sure is interesting. I just hope it is better than the Hakeem with James Brown song from many years ago.
I do have a feeling Snoop’s Arabic would be better than that of LL Cool J
I was surprised to see this a while ago, Saudi street extremism (hey, it’s the redbull generation… mountain dew is like mellow yellow to them now).
It did take them five years to catch on… it just shows you how far ahead of the curve they are
We don’t have skateboarders (we do, but they are few and far between) we don’t have bungee jumpers, nor extreme bike riders, but we do have these skidders… those who open the door of a car going down the highway and skate.
I have never seen them myself, but the video went viral, and made this pop artist use it as an influence.
Now, if we can mass produce it in a safe way and offer it to tourists… that would be something, eh?
I am currently reading Decoded, a book by Sean Carter famously known as Jay-Z. I’ve been listening to Rap music forever, and Jigga is deep.
Here is a line from a song called Beware, and he says “Before bin Laden got Manhattan to blow, Before Ronald Reagan got Manhattan to blow” blow in the first meaning 9-11 and the second which means the drug cocaine.
Explaining that lyric in the book he says:
“Ronald Reagan got Manhattan to “blow”—slang for cocaine—through the whole Iran-Contra scandal, which got the United States involved in the drug trade that brought crack to the hood so they could finance the Contras in Central America. In the worst years of the crack epidemic—the late eighties and early nineties—there were literally thousands of homicides annually in New York. So juxtaposing Reagan and bin Laden isn’t as crazy as it may seem. This is a piece of our recent history that people like to forget or pretend never happened so they can maintain some fantasy of American purity—which is why I thought it was important to include it in this rhyme. It’s that same sort of historical amnesia and myth of America’s innocence that led us into the war in Iraq. In my little way, I’m trying to kill that myth by reminding people of the truth—because that myth is a dangerous thing for the whole world.”
And this is one of the reasons I like Rap, I’m not done with the book yet, and if you are into books, find me on goodreads.
Picture an Arab Man by Tamara Abdul Hadi
Started in 2009, the portrait series “Picture an Arab Man” is part of a large body of work capturing semi-nude Arab men of diverse backgrounds. The project is meant to literally picture a new face for Arab males than the one we are so accustomed to perusing in the mainstream media. Breaking down stereotypes as to how Arabs have been represented in the West, as well as in the East, is one of the conceptual aims of this project. I attempt to do so by highlighting the sensual beauty of the Arab man, an unexplored aspect of their identity on the cusp of change in a society that reveres an out-dated form of hyper-masculinity. Moreover, it is an attempt to uncover and break the stereotypes imposed on the Arab male in a post 9/11 world, and provide an alternative visual representation of that identity.
Check out the video and the commentary by the artist
For more information visit this link
Since I’ve been living under a rock for quite sometime now, I missed this video, but I had to post it.
GREAT WORK 
Malik @nejer and his team come strong with this episode about marriage in Saudi.
Four guys sitting with a fat marriage counselor, too bad they don’t have anyone with a good marriage story.
I knew he would do great work, I just had that feeling. An old post about Malik here
Thanks to my dear friend @LoaiK for telling me about this Rebecca Black parody of her song “Friday”, It’s Jumah.