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?
Thanks to my dear friend @LoaiK for telling me about this Rebecca Black parody of her song “Friday”, It’s Jumah. 
Thanks for my friend Saudiaspire for letting me know about this, it completely slipped under my radar.
Quincy Jones, the multi-Grammy winning producer and multi-media entrepreneur, and Badr Jafar, an Emirati social entrepreneur, entered into a joint venture, The Global Gumbo Group, earlier this year to develop multi-media opportunities across all entertainment platforms including music, film, television, publishing and digital applications in the Middle East and North Africa.
The company will initially be focusing on producing live entertainment opportunities in the Middle East for Western artists in collaboration with renowned Middle East and North African artists. The Global Gumbo Group will also look to nurture new Middle Eastern and North African talent, and acquire content from the region to introduce to the West.
All funds raised as part of the single’s global distribution will be collected by the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture in support of the United Nations World Food Program, Dubai Culture & Arts Authority and the Abu Dhabi Music & Arts Foundation among others, to finance educational programs in music, arts and culture for children from across the Arab world.
The song is a direct translation of Quincy’s original song, I did not like the song in Arabic to be honest, but I do like the initiative, I hope it works.
Tomorrow = Bokra in Arabic
Boker tov = good morning in Hebrew
I’ve listened recently to Lowkey‘s new album which topped the charts… as it should, because it is that good.
The album plays like a documentary, a rapumentary if I have to describe it, because this guy is Public Enemy and Tupac, Michael Moore and Malcolm-x and more at the same time.
It is artful, in the way it stirs your emotions, flows in a way that doesn’t lose you, entertains without being boring and saddens to the point it brought tears to my eyes more than once, and powerful to a degree I have yet to hear something like it.
I do feel so helpless when I hear and see those stories, stories that make my struggle feel irrelevant, I have never been through what people in occupied lands have been through, and I hope the day suffering on earth ends… but basing that on human history, extrapolating anything out of that which isn’t ugly is a stroke of nonsense, if autumn, winter and summer are destroyers, only spring is a builder, and then it’s still three to one.
Kareem Dennis is talented and has a good head on his shoulder, talent enough to take the best rapper out there, and true to himself that he didn’t sellout to this big marketing machine which tries to make you feel like success is money, cars, and women and then try to tell you that greed and misogyny is bad, then sell you some antidepressants to make you numb enough to reprogram you again and again.
This album is what rap is all about, relating the story of the oppressed, in a message that will should shake something inside the listener, and if it cannot make the listener do something for the betterment of this world, it would at least open his/her eyes to the injustices that are not covered in mass media… and knowledge after all, is power.
Power to the people who realize they are the 99%.
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It’s so loud Inside my head
With words that I should have said!
As I drown in my regrets
I can’t take back the words I never said
I can’t take back the words I never said
I really think the war on terror is a bunch of bullshit
Just a poor excuse for you to use up all your bullets
How much money does it take to really make a full clip
9/11 building 7 did they really pull it
Uhh, And a bunch of other cover ups
Your child’s future was the first to go with budget cuts
If you think that hurts then, wait here comes the uppercut
The school was garbage in the first place, thats on the up and up
Keep you at the bottom but tease you with the uppercrust
You get it then they move you so you never keeping up enough
If you turn on TV all you see’s a bunch of “what the fucks”
Dude is dating so and so blabbering bout such and such
And that aint Jersey Shore, homie that’s the news
And these the same people that supposed to be telling us the truth
Limbaugh is a racist, Glenn Beck is a racist
Gaza strip was getting bombed, Obama didn’t say shit
Thats why I aint vote for him, next one either
I’ma part of the problem, my problem is I’m peaceful
And I believe in the people.
It’s so loud inside my head
With words that I should have said
As I drown in my regrets
I can’t take back the words I never said
I can’t take back the words I never said
Now you can say it aint our fault if we never heard it
But if we know better than we probably deserve it
Jihad is not a holy war, where’s that in the worship?
Murdering is not Islam!
And you are not observant
And you are not a Muslim
Israel don’t take my side cause look how far you’ve pushed them
Walk with me into the ghetto, this where all the Kush went
Complain about the liquor store but what you drinking liquor for?
Complain about the gloom but when’d you pick a broom up?
Just listening to Pac aint gone make it stop
A rebel in your thoughts aint gon make it halt
If you don’t become an actor you’ll never be a factor
Pills with million side effects, Take em when the pains felt
Wash them down with Diet soda killin off your brain cells
Crooked banks around the world would gladly give a loan today
So if you ever miss payment they can take your home away!
It’s so loud inside my head
With words that I should have said
As I drown in my regrets
I can’t take back the words I never said, never said
I can’t take back the words I never said
I think that all the silence is worse than all the violence
Fear is such a weak emotion thats why I despise it
We scared of almost everything, afraid to even tell the truth
So scared of what you think of me, I’m scared of even telling you
Sometimes I’m like the only person I feel safe to tell it to
I’m locked inside a cell in me, I know that there’s a jail in you
Consider this your bailing out, so take a breath, inhale a few
My screams is finally getting free, my thoughts is finally yelling through
After Sex and The City 2, Snoop Dogg is in Abu Dhabi, I came across this video of Snoop getting dressed in traditional Emarati style clothing trying to make it look all gangsta.
So is he now the Snoop of Arabia? He Should get an appropriate Arabian nick name… Abu Gangsta? no… Abu Corde (his first son’s name) That sounds more appropriate.
