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Oddisee: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

Sudanese/American MC & Producer on Tiny Desk (NPR MUSIC)
Love his vibe, had the honor to meet him & interview him. Mashalla what a dude!

Friday, June 19, 2015

BROTHER ALI TWEETS ABOUT HAJJ

AMERICAN MUSLIM HIP-HOP ARTIST BROTHER ALI TWEETS ABOUT EXPERIENCING HAJJ FOR THE FIRST TIME AND WHAT HE SAYS WILL BLOW YOU AWAY (2010)





-Most challenging experience of my life, my Hajj is complete. Just said farewell to Allah's house in Mecca. Cairo for a day, then home. 

-I Lived in two pieces of simple white cloth,slept in tents and on the ground, visited the most ancient symbols of spiritual oneness. 

-I prayed and meditated on the plane where humanity will be gathered for the day of atonement. 

-I slept in the dirt on the plane where the first man and woman descended from heaven and created humanity. 

-I stoned the Jamrat, the ancient symbols of the devil to commemorate my rejection of my ego, greed, lust, anger, etc. 

-I visited the home, mosque and grave of our beloved Prophet Muhammad in the illuminated city of Medina, established by the first Muslims. 

-The Hajj is extremely difficult and grueling. There were funerals at all five of our daily prayers for 3 weeks without exception. 

-There were somewhere between 3 and 5 million pilgrims from every country performing the same rites at the same time. 

-You Literally get caught up and carried by the crowd of humanity. Terrifying, humbling and beautiful experience. 

-Met some of the most beautiful people of my life and some really troubled ones. Imperfect people united by a perfect system. 

-That's the most reflective and naked I've ever been. Tears of joy, repentance and immense gratitude.

-To be in place with millions of people with all the commotion and hear it get dead silent for prayer and all you hear is wind and birds. 

-I got lost in the tent city of mina with no phone,no cars, no guides and no one speaks english. Didn't know if I'd ever find my group. 

-I walked for 8 straight hours with no idea where I was going. I have blisters covering the bottoms of both feet. Still performed my rites. 

-While living in our tents, it rained for two days in a row. Scary thing in the desert where it never rains. 

-I never believed that you could go to place and feel the presence of God until this. Its tangible in the air.

-You can taste it. -The feeling of true brotherhood is electric in the holy precincts. Even the police are bound by it. 

-People come from every corner of the world. Many on foot from africa and eastern europe. You see people on canes and crutches. 

-People spend months walking thousands of miles and sleep in the streets. Other pilgrims feed and look after them. 

-Saw a family with kids and the parents were sharing a pair of shoes. Went into a store to buy some things and a stranger picked up my bill. 

-I've had some very low, dark moments in my life but it hit me on this trip that I Literally have received everything I've ever prayed for. 

-I was challenged in every imaginable way. This has been the greatest exercise in patience I could imagine. I'm so very grateful. 

-After loosing my father, my friend and making this pilgrimage all in 3 months, if you don't believe in God, let love be your god. 

-Please don't assume you know Islam because of what you've heard. I've practiced Islam for 17 years and didn't truly understand until now.




Thursday, June 18, 2015

RE-VOLT MAGAZINE ISSUE 15

Our 15th issue of Re-Volt Magazine featuring many local & international artists. Take a look @ it. We Still at it.

Thursday, June 4, 2015

Chyno - Origami feat. Ingrid Bawab (AK Edit)

Chyno - Origami feat. Ingrid Bawab (AK Edit)

An Audio Kultur reinterpretation of the single "Origami" from Chyno's debut solo-album Making Music to Feel at Home

Track:
Produced by Imad Jawad & Nasser Shorbaji
Engineered & mixed by Karim Beidoun at Guerrilla Music Production
Violin: Karim Najem
Cello: Arek Dakessian

Clip:
Concept and Production by Audio Kultur
Directed by Jackson Allers & Tres Colacion
Director of Photography: Andrew Cagle
Creative Director: Ali El Sayed



Tuesday, June 2, 2015

The Narcicyst releases World War Free Now! | Album

Iraqi/Canadian Hip-Hop artist The Narcicyst has released his new album under the title 
"World War Free Now!" 

Buy & support it by CLICKING Itunes HERE:
Also available on Bandcamp


Monday, June 1, 2015

G-SHOCK PRESENTS | THE BEAT (From KSA To Bahrain)



 I first launched the BEAT in 2014.. I remember it was a small idea which is now growing. 

The BEAT is a series of events aimed to support local/regional artists by having them perform LIVE. 


On May 29th,2015 - we made history & gathered 12 Artists from KSA/Bahrain & Kuwait to perform for ONE Night under ONE Roof ! & it was beautiful. It was beautiful to connect, it was great to see the artists connecting, collaborating & exchanging contacts... I called it "THE BEAT WAGON" . This was the first time I take THE BEAT outside Jeddah & it was a great learning experience since I was handling/managing 18/19 people 

The Event was presented by G-SHOCK who has been supportin' local artists for the past couple of years now. I appreciate their support. 

Here are some pix & you can mainly see the majority of pix on "Instagram" #GShockXTheBeat 

Big up to all the people involved, hopefully some videos will surface up soon. 

I will be writing more about this, this is just for now!

Our root was as follows:
Jeddah - Dammam by Plane & then we took a BIG BUS from Dammam to Bahrain. The full journey was incredible, tiring but we all connected at another level



THE BEAT WAGON (pic by Big Hass)






Arabique | Pic by Abdallah Minhas @ Malja


Big Hass | Pic by Abdallah Minhas @ Malja

Lou | Pic by Abdallah Minhas @ Malja

Coco | Pic by Abdallah Minhas @ Malja

Mothanna Anbar | Pic by Abdallah Minhas @ Malja

Run Junxion & Black Bannerz | Pic by Abdallah Minhas @ Malja

Qusai & Anas Arabi | Pic by Abdallah Minhas @ Malja


Flipperachay & Dj Outlaw | Pic by Abdallah Minhas @ Malja

Jeddah FAM | Pic by Abdallah Minhas @ Malja
Knockout Crew | Pic by Abdallah Minhas @ Malja
Dj Outlaw | Pic by Abdallah Minhas @ Malja

Azooz & Abdullah from Dhad Graffiti Family

Chalk Work by Rama (Great Artist) 
Graffiti by Dhad Family (Azooz & Abdullah)  & Huvil