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Busta Rhymes’ “Arab Money” causes controversy in U.K.
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Busta Rhymes’ song “Arab Money”(below) got a U.K. radio DJ suspended when he played it on air. The song is offensive to Muslims because the first chapter of the Quran is sung and sampled, which is against the Arab law that singing a Quran verse in combination with music is prohibited.
It’s cool though, because Busta is smoothing things out with upset Arabs in the U.K.!
“I really only respect the Arab culture. I ain’t really trying to pay no attention to, ya know, these little people in political positions and executive positions that ain’t really Arab culture oriented people, because a lot of ...
New Music Video: Busta - Arab Money
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New Music Video: Busta - Arab Money [image] Busta Rhymes new music video for “Arab Money” has recently surfaced. I am not sure what to think about the song of the video. View the video and leave your thoughts after the jump - Leave a Reply Name (required) Mail (hidden) (required) Website Notify me of followup comments via e-mail
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I apologize for the scarcity of recent posts.
This is Busta Rhymes and Ron Browz with “Arab Money.” It’s good to see that though our President’s so alienated Iraqis that he’s getting shoes tossed at him, hip-hop’s managed to cling to the capitalism of the Crescent and add some ...
Kosha Dillz speaks on C-Rayz Walz, the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and life as a Jewish rapper
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Last fall I received an e-mail from a rapper on Amalgam Digital named Kosha Dillz, promoting a new album he had just released called Freestyle vs. Written. The concept of the album was fairly unique, with half of the album consisting of prewritten lyrics by Kosha and the other half made up entirely of freestyled verses from C-Rayz Walz. Along with the promo he included a link to one of his videos, the rather creative Holiday, which I put up on the site without much further consideration. Shortly thereafter, I was surprised to see a handful of comments on the site, and several more in my inbox, that took ...
