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I pay special attention to creative action, specifically, and in my travels throughout the Middle East I encountered a hip-hop reborn through artists like the Ramallah Underground and Shadia Mansour, both Palestinian, as well as London-based Iraqi rapper Lowkey (who are all part of a larger collective known as the Arab League of Hip Hop).
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(See the video below for a glimpse of Lowkey and Shadia recording in his studio, and discussing the convergence of their music and political activism).
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Along with other Arab hip-hop artists, both Shadia and Lowkey have toured with a number of high-profile hip-hop acts in the US as well, and while in New York they paid a visit to DJ Jonny "Juice" Rosado, producer for the legendary Public Enemy - an early and natural influence for the resistance-minded Arab rappers.
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Most recently, Lowkey and Shadia Mansour were able to connect with renowned scholar Norman Finkelstein to embark on a "Free Palestine Tour" for the launch of Finkelstein's latest book, "This Time We Went Too Far," a meticulous and searing account of Israel's bloody Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza strip last year.
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I pay special attention to creative action, specifically, and in my travels throughout the Middle East I encountered a hip-hop reborn through artists like the Ramallah Underground and Shadia Mansour, both Palestinian, as well as London-based Iraqi rapper Lowkey (who are all part of a larger collective known as the Arab League of Hip Hop).
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(See the video below for a glimpse of Lowkey and Shadia recording in his studio, and discussing the convergence of their music and political activism).
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Most recently, Lowkey and Shadia Mansour were able to connect with renowned scholar Norman Finkelstein to embark on a "Free Palestine Tour" for the launch of Finkelstein's latest book, "This Time We Went Too Far," a meticulous and searing account of Israel's bloody Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza strip last year.
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Along with other Arab hip-hop artists, both Shadia and Lowkey have toured with a number of high-profile hip-hop acts in the US as well, and while in New York they paid a visit to DJ Jonny "Juice" Rosado, producer for the legendary Public Enemy - an early and natural influence for the resistance-minded Arab rappers.
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He was wiv Doc Browns crew init, but you feel Lowkey man, you must know Cuba Ranks you get me, you know who had beef wiv Fat Joe?
What's Going On Mark Steel 2009
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Asylum's new act that has been creating major buzz, Cool Nutz and locals Gerald G, Da C.O.D., and Lowkey.
HipHopDX News 2010
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