position:rapper

I am a North Korean defector-turned-rapper: any questions for me? | World news | The Guardian

▻http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/08/north-korean-defector-turned-rapper-kang-chun-hyok-any-questions?CMP=tw

Kang Chun-hyok is rarity; a young defector from North Korea who is forging ahead with a career as a rapper. He arrived in the South at the age of 16 – one of the 25,000 estimated to have made the journey over the past 20 years – and is now studying art at Hongik University whilst pressing ahead with his music.

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He has said he has ambitions to be the best rapper out of North Korea – a career that few of his peers would ever even dream of pursuing. Music in the North, like much of the arts, is little more than a patriotic medium celebrating the state.

#corée_du_nord #musique

Entre le gugusse «yo, chillin’ with my homies» et le gugusse «yeah, we tortured some folks», tout cela atteint des niveaux de coolitude inquiétants…

Ali G in da House: James Foley beheading: London rapper turned jihadist believed to be under investigation for murder of American journalist in Syria
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Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary, 24, was known as L Jinny or Lyricist Jinn at home in London, where his rising music career saw him appear in videos and have his singles played on BBC Radio in 2012.

He came to national attention earlier this year, when he posted a picture of himself holding a severed head on Twitter after resurfacing in Syria.

The gruesome picture, believed to have been taken in the Isis stronghold of Raqqa, was captioned: “Chillin’ with my homie or what’s left of him.”

South African Hip Hop Series: Interview With #Khuli_Chana
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On the morning of 28th October 2013 – a Monday – South Africa woke up to news that rapper Khuli Chana’s vehicle had been shot at by the police after they mistook it for that of a kidnapper on the run. The incident occurred at a filling station in Midrand on Khuli’s way to a […]

#MEDIA #MUSIC ##SAHipHop2014 #Da_Les #HHP #Jabba #Magesh #motswako #Reason #Slikour #TKZee #Tokollo #Towdee #Tumi #Ventilation

This Studio Of A Life–The Tale Of A Great Producer
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Inyambo Imenda is the birth name of producer #Nyambz (or #Nyambo). He went to high school in the proverbial ‘middle of nowhere’ — a small town called Harrismith in South Africa’s Free State Province where him and a rapper friend started making #MUSIC. “There wasn’t any hip-hop scene; nobody was making beats,” he says of the place. Necessity, […]

#DJ_Kenzhero #Drop_XVI #Fro-Pick_Records #Kenny #Maseru #Mashamplani #Mizi #Nyambino #Pretoria_hip-hop #Proverb #Studio_Next_Door #Tumi_Molekane #Zubz

A Few Thoughts About The Rapper #AKA
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“What do you like about the guy?” asked a friend after I told them about an album listening session the rapper AKA had hosted a day earlier. “I don’t know, I don’t get the guy; and maybe I never will,” continued the friend emphatically. It felt like they should’ve added: “is there anything of artistic value […]

#MUSIC ##SAHipHop2014 #Cassper_Nyovest #Congratulate #Da_Les #IV_League #Khuli_Chana #Kontrol #Levels #New_album #Sizwer_Dlhomo

#20_Years_of_Freedom : The #Headwarmaz
▻http://africasacountry.com/20-years-of-freedom

Having been hosted by the likes of DJ Ready D, Big Dre, Shameen, and Wanda, just to mention a few, Headwarmaz is now in the hands of the new generation of Cape Town #hip_hop in the form of Andiswa Mkosi and myself (Sabelo Mkhabela). I am a rapper in my own right but more […]

#MUSIC #Bush_Radio #radio

German rapper turned jihadist killed in #syria
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/german-rapper-turned-jihadist-killed-syria

A German former rapper who joined jihadists fighting in Syria has been killed in a suicide bombing carried out by rival fighters, jihadist sources said Tuesday. Denis Mamadou Cuspert, who rapped under the name #Deso_Dogg but took on the name Abu Talha al-Almani in Syria, was reported to have been killed in a suicide attack Sunday in an eastern province. He was a member of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and was reportedly killed in a double suicide bombing carried out by #Al-Nusra_Front, a rival jihadist group that is al-Qaeda’s Syria affiliate. read more

#ISIS #Top_News

This American Indian Rapper Just Became MTV’s Artist of the Week ▻http://www.policymic.com/articles/86145/this-american-indian-rapper-just-became-mtv-s-artist-of-the-week #indigenous #worldmusic

When the Police State Comes to Your City, Some Might See Normalicy. This Rapper Saw Something Completely Different.
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This video was shot in Portland, Oregon, November, 2011 and features the words of John Trudell.

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Weekend #MUSIC Break 67
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We kick off this weekend’s music break with an artist who has been away from the scene for a while: Cape Verdean rapper Vieira Nkosi. This week he uploaded a short freestyle video (in Dutch) entitled “I Am Legend”. Vieira was forced to take it slow due to an illness, but judging by this video, […]

#Weekend_Break #Alicious_Theluji #Burna_Boy #Dona_Tututa #Just_a_Band #Kwabs #Nosizwe_Baqwa #Octopizzo #Rina_Mushonga #Takana_Zion #Tututa_Évora #Viera_Nkosi

Police detain bearded #Beirut rapper over « terrorism » suspicions
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Police on Wednesday briefly detained a local rapper in the southern suburbs of Beirut after apparently suspecting him of being a terrorist because of his beard and “salafist” clothing, a day after a suicide blast killed four people in the area. But Hussein Sharafeddin, who is a well known artist in Beirut’s hip hop scene, was later released after his friends and supporters recognized his photo posted on websites of local news sites that reported the arrest of a suicide bomber. The rapper confirmed to Al-Akhbar that he had been released without charge. read more

#Haret_Hreik #Lebanon #rap #Top_News

Tunisian rapper #Weld_el_15 acquitted
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A file picture taken on December 5, 2013 shows Tunisian rapper Alaa Yaacoubi, better known by his rap name "Weld El 15”, arriving at the courthouse for his appeal trial in the Hammamet suburb of Nabeul. (Photo: AFP - Fethi Belaid)

Tunisian rapper Weld El 15 was acquitted on appeal of singing songs deemed insulting to the police and is to be freed later Thursday, his lawyer Ghazi Mrabet told AFP. The ruling comes amid ongoing human rights concerns under #Tunisia's Islamist-led coalition government, almost three years after a popular uprising ousted veteran strongman Zine El Abidine Ben and triggered revolutions across the region. read (...)

#Top_News

Tunisian rapper Weld El 15 gets four-month sentence in retrial | Al Akhbar English
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Tunisian rapper Weld El 15 gets four-month sentence in retrial

Tunisian rapper #Weld_el_15 gets four-month sentence in retrial
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Tunisian rapper Ala Yaacoubi, better known by his rap name "Weld El 15”, arrives at the courthouse for his appeal trial on December 5, 2013 in the Hammamet suburb of Nabeul. (Photo: AFP - Fethi Belaid)

A Tunisian rapper who went on the run after receiving a 21-month jail sentence in absentia in August for songs deemed insulting to police was jailed for four months at a retrial Thursday. Weld El 15, whose real name is Alaa Yacoubi, had surrendered to the authorities at the courthouse for the hearing. The court found him guilty of affront to public decency and insulting behavior towards public servants in his songs, and ordered him taken straight to the cells to serve his sentence. read (...)

#Top_News #Tunisia

Tunisian rapper #Weld_el_15 to appeal prison sentence
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/tunisian-rapper-weld-el-15-appeal-prison-sentence

Tunisian rapper Weld El 15, on the run since receiving a 21-month jail sentence in absentia in August, will appeal the ruling in court next month, his lawyer said on Friday. “I have contested the ruling against Weld El 15. The new trial will take place at the court in Hammamet on December 5,” Ghazi Mrabet told AFP, adding that his client would be present. The rapper, whose real name is Alaa Yaacoubi, and another musician Klay BBJ, were both given 21-month jail terms in absentia for performing songs deemed insulting to the police at a concert in the eastern town of Hammamet. read more

#Top_News #Tunisia

Weekend #MUSIC Break 57
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It’s the weekend, so let’s dig into the internet’s digital crates for some new music. In a video that strings together GIF-like movements and intriguing textural contrasts over innovative beats, UK rapper/producer Mickey Lightfoot makes his compelling debut with the song “L.O.S.T.”: Nigerian rock and roll legend Keziah Jones stages a comeback in his new […]

Tunisian rapper #Klay_BBJ acquitted
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A picture taken on June 6, 2013 shows Tunisian rapper Ahmed Ben Ahmed, better known by his stage name Klay BBJ, attending the trial of fellow rapper Weld El 15 with other musicians in front of the court in the Tunis suburb of Ben Arous. (Photo: AFP - Fethi Belaid)

Tunisian rapper Klay BBJ, jailed for six months in September for songs that allegedly insulted officials and public morals, was acquitted by an appeals court Thursday. "The court has decided to reject the (...)

#Top_News #Tunisia

Weekend #MUSIC Break 56
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Three South African videos to start with. Cape Town rapper #Youngsta moves between the city’s neigbourhood of Wynberg and the CBD: …while fellow Cape artist #HemelBesem went for a stroll in Utrecht, Netherlands earlier this year. EJ von LYRIK who was on tour with him gets a cameo: #Mafikizolo seem to find a lot of […]

#Beloji #Diamondog #Dinozord #Hervé_Samb #Kali_Kwa_Wote_Unit #Puto_Português #Webster

#Tunisia condemns rapper to six months in prison for “undermining morals”
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/tunisia-condemns-rapper-six-months-prison-undermining-morals

Tunisian rapper Klay BBJ – the alias of Ahmed Ben Ahmed – was jailed for six months without remission on Thursday for songs judged insulting by the authorities and for undermining morals. “We have decided on a sentence of six months in prison, to begin immediately,” Judge Belgacem Chaieb ruled after a trial lasting less than 90 minutes. The rapper’s lawyer said he would appeal the verdict. “It is a new injustice targeting artists. I will appeal and continue the fight,” Ghazi Mrabet told AFP. (...)

#Top_News

Greece, in Anti-Fascist Crackdown, Investigates Police

ATHENS — The photo splashed on the cover of a Greek newspaper this weekend shocked a nation: Pavlos Fyssas, a Greek rapper whose music inveighed against far-right groups, lay dying in a pool of his own blood as his girlfriend cradled him in her arms, moments after he was stabbed in the heart.

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#police #violence #aube_dorée #Grèce #extrême-droite

Weekend #MUSIC Break 48
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Rapper, activist, and radio host #Xuman returns with this week’s edition of “Rap Journal”. Addressing police corruption in #Senegal while paying homage to the South Africa’s beacon of light, Nelson Mandela. Look out for a guest appearance by Dead Prez’s M-1, who was in Senegal recently working on some music. Disregarding the controversy surrounding their movement in [...]

#D-Black #D2amajoe #Gaston #Ghana #Kanyi_Mavi #M.anifest #Souleymane_Faye #Stef_Bos

Mandela and Hip-Hop in South Africa
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Eighteen months ago, South African rapper and former frontman of The Volume, #Tumi_Molekane (stagename: Tumi) released ‘POWA’, a song which was as much a rally against women abuse as it was speculative banter in which the rapper imagined a post-Mandela South African dystopia. “When Mandela dies, who gon’ really care about us?”, he mused. That refrain [...]

#NELSON_MANDELA #African_Hip_Hop_Indaba #Emile_XY #Ewok #Madiba #Nelson_Mandela #Tumi_and_the_Volume #Zubz

Chris Kelly, #Kris_Kross rapper, dies at 34 in Atlanta hospital | Music | guardian.co.uk
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Chris “Mac Daddy” Kelly, one half of the 1990s rap duo Kris Kross, has died at an Atlanta hospital at the age of 34, a Fulton County Medical Examiner’s spokesman said on Wednesday.

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Wasalu Muhammad Jaco aka Lupe Fiasco crée la polémique :

« #FiascoGate: US rapper pulled off stage over inauguration anti-Obama rant »
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American rapper Lupe Fiasco was thrown off stage by security guards as he performed a 40-minute anti-Obama song during a pre-inauguration event at a Washington, DC, concert hall Sunday night.

“Lupe Fiasco just got thrown off stage here at the Hamilton Live after he went on an anti-Obama diatribe mid set,” Josh Rogin, a reporter with Foreign Policy magazine, posted on Twitter.

During the concert, the singer played a lengthy anti-war song and told the audience he didn’t vote for Barack Obama, according to witnesses. When he was told to move on to the next song, he refused, and “a team of security guards came on stage and told him to go.”

The incident with Lupe Fiasco, born Wasalu Muhammad Jaco, triggered a storm of comments on Twitter – the hashtag #FiascoGate became popular across the social network.

The Internet community clashed over what happened, with some asking why “it’s okay for Kanye West to diss George Bush, but it’s wrong for Lupe Fiasco to question Obama war policies.”

Extrait de sa fiche Wiki :

Political views

Fiasco is noted for his anti-establishment views. In an interview with Stephen Colbert on the satirical news show The Colbert Report, Fiasco stated his credo on political philosophy: “You should criticize power even if you agree with it.”[77] In another interview in June 2011 on the CBS program What’s Trending, Fiasco discussed the political content of his music, stating, “My fight against terrorism, to me, the biggest terrorist is Obama and the United States of America. I’m trying to fight the terrorism that’s actually causing the other forms of terrorism. You know, the root cause of terrorism is the stuff the U.S. government allows to happen. The foreign policies that we have in place in different countries that inspire people to become terrorists.”[78] He additionally criticized Obama for his stance on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.[79] In keeping with his anti-establishment views, Fiasco does not vote in U.S. elections.[77]

#Lupe_Fiasco #Rap_US #Obama

Michael K. Williams Says Wu-Tang Clan Members Will Play Themselves IN ODB FIlm | Shadow and Act
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Michael K. Williams (Omar Little from The Wire) will play Ol’ Dirty Bastard, but not in a traditional biopic on the late rapper’s life (one has long been rumored to be coming); rather seemingly as a character in someone else’s story.