This Is Street

Haven't blogged in ages, i know

I need to come back, I miss this

but anyways, Facebook timeline brought this up to me, thought I share it here

wrote it a long time ago, so yeah

i'm doin this, for the kids growing up on the other side of perfect

a life of hurting, only agony is certain

people say eyes are windows to the soul

but you can't see through these curtains

of pain and misfortune

heads are heavy due to the weight of burden

still, they hold it high and even higher when sniffing on glue so they don't mire

in a life of shit, they tend to catch a fire

burn slow, for they know heaven gates are theirs to acquire

I admire their smiles and laughter

hope reminiscing will help them erase the anguish in the hereafter

if they ever reached it, cuz these kids, are just like a rafter

they never know if the next wave will take them to safety or to the grave

most of them are depraved

most of them never had a father, so don't tell one to behave

most of them don't work at all, but one still feels like a slave

and your garbage is someone else's food, and just like you and I they do crave

- Now this is street ..

by Ahmad Mahmoud on Friday, August 8, 2008 at 6:25pm

Otherlogy

Last night, I tried writing about Unity and such..
Couldn’t draft that much

I couldn’t even write the words: Sudan Unite
Because my pen knows, that I memorized a lot of Jahili Poetry(1)
And still don’t know how Nuer tribes write

I was taught about how Sahaba(2) used to fight
But was never told of how Shilluk people love
Or at the very least, what are their pick up lines

I learned more about Greek mythology, than Dinka mythology..
And oh, the ghost of Che follows me..
But I hardly know of any southern prodigy
Except for John Garang, hmmm, not so true probably

Because I could’ve said to him Thank You in five different languages you see..
Shukran, Thanks, Arigato, Gracias, and Merci
But only today, I learned how to say “Yin Cha Leech” five years after he passed away

“Yakh Hanak Beesh”(3)

Like when I complain if a catchy Indian song was on
Without subtitles..
But stand watching a group of Southerners singing on Harmony(4)
Without harmony, because Harmony trifles their agony
I see them dance, my third eye is not vital, but it’s able to glance
To help me enhance my identity, daydream of a day when we all live in amenity

Back to my serenity towards Secession versus Unity

I’ll find that when Khartoum is recognized as Meeting of the Rivers in the Dinka tongue
And not, The Trunk Of An Elephant(5)..
Look up the word Omdurman too, because it also is relevant
I’ll finish this January, two thousand and eleven

Otherlogy by: Ahmad M. 21.10.2010

Footnotes:

1. Jahili Poetry: Pre-Islamic Arabic poetry of the Arabian Peninsula.
2. Sahaba: The companions of the Prophet Mohammed
3. Yakh Hanak Beesh: Sudanese Arabic slang for "That's bullsh*t"
4. Harmony: a locat Sudanese Music TV channel
5. Trunk of An Elephant: Khartoum, in Arabic means the trunk in An Elephant (slightly pronounced Khortoum in this case), but actually it's derrived from Dinka Kir and Toum which means meeting of rivers.

Breaking Africa's heart - By: Qotouf Yahia

Sudanese Hip Hop

I havn't been blogging lately because I'm so busy putting together an album under ReZoulution (AKA REZ249) records, whcih is a 100% independent label. set by me and my friend Ran Quip 2 years ago, and now consisted of 7 rappers. we make our own music, mostly smaple-besed beats using Sudanese original songs. and we rap in English, Classic Arabic, and Sudanese Arabic.

anyways, our first mixtape entitled "The Food of The Sun" is to be released soon, by me (DZA Tha Dissenter) and Ran Quip, it's all in English Language, I gurantee it's going to be one of the best english rap albums ever been made in the middle east zone.

We released a single a couple of days ago, "Forgotten Age" it is, political rap. sudanese to the core. hear it out.

Visit the Group's page on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/ReZOULutionists/89972948240

The people on the Single Cover requires a whole other post, maybe later. peace

The lyrics for my verse (The First One):

Fuck the peace agreement, it wouldn't cease the vehement
let the sunny truth beam in, the abyss of lying heathens
theocraticals misleading, the nation with sloganeering
theological treason formation is what i'm leading
bring hell to fake edens, I don't believe what they believe in
so I leave snakes bleeding, cutting them like excision
for skin changing and schemin, abusing religion
mass confusion, people losing their vision
invision yourself a southerner in 1964
when Abboud commissioned Islamization of South by force
what for? the dispansation of God's word?
man, it was the elation of his soul
the population refused war, and he was overthrown
(that's the glorious revolution of October)
five years later Nimeiri took over
south and north conflict got worse, moreover
Nubian monuments were buried under water
and the communists were slaughterd
by applying Sharia laws under US orders
April 85, he fled for his life to Egypt
democracy flourished for four years but they couldn't keep it
cuz the Salvation Invasion came to reap it
calling it a revolution, but it was merely an illusion
a false resoulution, far from a solution
and to this very day they still selling us dellusions
so this is not the conclusion

All is War

Fun-da-mental -- All Is War album which caused a media frenzy is now in video form.The video shows the three bombmakers, an anarchist bomb maker who shows how with a small amount of money he can craete chaos. An intellectual, academic and educated renegade who for a certain amount of money is willing to deal his secrets to the highest bidder.The most interesting is the last one who is sponsered by the majority of the general public from their taxes and works on our behalf through the Govts or States to make the most horrific bombs(in killing ability).The track questions the morality of an acceptable and legal bomber and one that is working for other purposes.In this day of "War On Terror" all common sense and justice seems to be a monoply to those who are the most wealthy and most hypocritical, those that cause most mischeif and feel that they have the sole and moral right to muder people.. Madness all of it...video & tracks downlaods from www.fun-da-mental.co.uk

Youtube Is back, but how can we stop FOX?

Youtube is unblocked in Sudan now, I don't know who to thank, maybe me for starting that group :p lol .. but ey, thank god
anyways .. I just learned that Myspace banned a song !!
Myspace as most of us bloggers know is owned by that blood sucking leech Rupert Murdoch and his FOX Corp.
the song that was banned is East Coast Avengers - The Day Hope Died .. listen to it:




for real, fuck the internet censorship

Why I Use Youtube?

A member of Unblock Youtube In Sudan Now on Facebook started a topic about how we benefit from Youtube in Sudan.
I was like ..

youtube for me resembles independence arts at its best .. everyone who's sick
and tired of the commercialized music and the fake plastic artists on tv or on
the radio can watch/listen his/her favorite artists on Youtube, underground
musicians use youtube as a base to spread their music which they can't spread
through majoir record companies because it lacks the commercial aspect, take rap
music as an example, fakes like 50 cent and lil wayne found their way to fame
because they're on tv 24/7 makin commercials to cell phones, shoes and stuff
like that, but they have no artistic material of any kind, underground artists
can't compete on TV, but thanks to websites like youtube and myspace and many
other, they have a chance to make their voices heared.and not just the music, I
watched a "net-movie" for the first time on youtube, it was "Zeitgeist, The
Movie" a documantry with amazing content that would never be shown on TV, but
it's on youtube for whoever wants to see it.and I know alot of bloggers, and
v-bloggers (video bloggers) who use Youtube as a way to communicate and to speak
their minds, I know people who make news just like CNN or aljazeera, in other
words, Youtube is the equivalent to Gutenberg's machine, information can be made
by people who were yesterday only recieve it. suddenly everyone gets to speak
and not just listen like the old days, and I blv that's great.remember youtube's
motto: "broadcast yourself", it's a dagger in the heart of corporate media.

Click here for the full post

Not to mention how you can watch the eclipse, a giant wave, sky movement, sunset at Everest, full moon at the desert, depth of the Atlantic, etc. anytime anyday. that's how I benefit from Youtube, but still, my favorite part is how Youtube serves Artists to spread their art, and even helps fans to share their the artists in making the art :D . for example, cheak this video for Jedi Mind Tricks, "Before The Great Collapse", a fan and his friends made this video and broadcasted it worldwide.

In the end, I leave you with Genocide, an underground bosnian MC (rap artist) who was a refugee during the genocide on his homeland (Go to: www.myspace.com/TerrorizeRecords) . Track is named "Genocide Alerts" and talks about Sudan.

Rap: Producing Art

1- Stoup The Enemy of Mankind (from Jedi Mind Tricks)
this nigga here is a god on the beats .. if you listen to JMT's track "Saviorself" you'll know what i mean, whenever i listen to this song, the beat takes me straight to the pyramids, and that's what makes a great producer, he makes you live what the rapper is talking about.. "Uncommon Valor", also a masterpiece by JMT is another example of his magic touch, he takes artists' lyrics to another level with his creative production, it don't matter if its fight music, love, war, history, or anything. JMT's earlier albums show his abilities so clearly.. his next collabo with Canibus is going to make him an enemy of producers for sure.






2- Tha RZA (From Wu-Tang Clan)
killa beez formed their swarm with the production skills of this man, his work on the group's debut album "Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)" is remarkable for its gritty effectivness, even though the group's equipment was so weak at the time, it was even described as "dusty", but RZA's production came with a brand new style that was unprecedented in hip hop, using soul samples and movie sound clips to enhance the picture lyricists were drawing in the tracks. RZA's solo album "Birth of A Prince" is a masterpiece, lyrically and instrumentally, and with another 4 solo albums, RZA proves with his discordant piano samples and wavering strings that rap is an art. "See The Joy" from Birth of A Prince.









3- DJ Premier (From Gangstarr)
Premo is a ill motherfucka when it comes to making beats, he's been killing tracks since the 1990 and still doin it, he's most notable for his work with Guru in the great GangStarr, tracks like "Above The Clouds", "Mass Appeal", "JFK 2 LAX", "Full Clip".. and Nas's "NY State of Mind", show how simple yet powerful his beats are.. he also produced for many artists such as Nas, The Notorious B.I.G., KRS-One, Bone Thugz N Harmony.. etc.









4- Necro
this white sick motherfucker is a true track murderer, his rugged beats are as sick as his lyrics, sometimes you can see blood comin out of the speakers after playing some of his shit lol, listen to his collabo album with Ill Bill (from Coca La Nostra) "Street Villians" ("Bury You With Satan The Remix").. also his album "Gory Days" got some really gory plays.. and I'm glad to tell you I'm usin some of his instrumentals for my mixtape :D .. my all time favorite beats by him are "The Big Sleep", "Morbid", "light my fire" .. and the list goes on






5- DJ Kno (from Cunninlynguists)
another white boi with infinite skills on the beats, this kid is so fuckin creative his beats are like movies man, the album "Will Rap For Food" is more than enough to prove his abilities, and he really excelled himself with his work on the group's last LP "Dirty Acres" .. and between Rap For Food and Acres, he made some of the most touching beats ever, "A Piece Of Strange" contains some of the most artistic beats in the history of hip hop. start with "Rain", "What'll You Do?", "War", "Appreciation Remix" and "KKKY". get their whole discography to listen to more, it really worth it.






6- 7L (from the group 7LES)
also a white boi, 7L is a skilled producer who manages to take the listener to the core of Esoteric's lyrics.. in tracks like "Rise of A Rebel" it's easy to see that the rebel is 7L with his amazing piano. listenin to the 2006 LP "Moment of Rarities" is a great way to sense his production style.






7- Tonedeff
as a rapper he is a god of flow.. as a producer he's more like an orchestra leader, but without the stick, beats on tracks like "Porcelain" or "Loyal" are deeper than the words said in em, actually the whole "Archetype" album is a deep as a scuba diver production, you don't wanna miss that, listen to it's overture entitled "Overture".






8- Pete Rock
Pete Rock style is based on samples, and he's really nice with what he's doing, even thoough i didn't get the chance to really listen to all what he's done, but his work on Edo-G's album "My Worst Enemy" really forced me to put his name here. cheak "Jus Listen", "Situations".. he also produced for Nas, B.I.G., and many others.


9- The Alchemist
another white producer, this kid truly does turn lead to gold, his serise entiled "The Chemistry Files" are rapper's best friend (he has an instrumentals album with the same name). he produced for so many artists, but most notably is his work with Mobb Deep, Dilated Peoples, Ghostface Killah.. etc. a must listen: "Mama" from Big Pun's album "Endangered Species", Prodigy from Mobb Deep "Hold You Down"




10- Immortal Technique
though his production is not as much as his punchlines, but good things comes in small packages, or something like that.. anyways, his "Caught In A Hustle" track is a mad nice produced saga.




11- Jean Grae
her producing career is not as serious as her MCin' career, but she still a mad nice producer, production of immortal technique's "Revolutionary" from "Revolutionary Vol. 1" belongs to her sweet fingers lol.


12- RJD2
this white kid is a GENIUS.. he's simply a fucking genius, and he makes some real trippy music.. always good to listen to when you high as a bird know what am sayin? RJD2 is a real artist, mixing diffrent types of music creating inspiring tunes.. he mostly rolls solo, but his collabo with Aceyalone is remarkable, he managed to cheak: "Smoke And Mirrors", "Ghostwriter", "Beyond the Beyond", "1976", "The Horror", "Junior", "All For You", and you'll sure gonna download his whole discography


13- MF Doom
before anything, listen to "Biochemical Equation" with RZA from wu-tang and i dare you not to praise this man in the iron mask.. Doom is a Stones Throw affiliate, and he's a gladiator on the beats (the mask he's wearing is designed like the one Russel Crowe had in the movie Gladiator) .. try: "Nastradoomus", "Monkey Suite", "I Hear Voices".. and when he meets with Madlib, that's another story yo..


14- Madlib
another Stones Throw affiliate, and a track killer, his name stands for "Mind Altering Demented Lessons In Beats" so you know how sick this nigga is.. most of his work was done with Talib Kweli and other stones throw affs, like MF Doom, his collabo with Talib "Liberation" is a 5 stars joint, cheak "The Show" .. and then "I Love Marijuana", "Slim Returns".

I got some trees and i'm ready to smoke

Rhythm and Poetry

just pretend you didn't see that idiot motaz sobahy.. i don't know why the fuck would they bring such a fake artist to present one of the puerest forms of arts ever made.. anyways..
that was BIB, a rap group from Sudan, they been droppin shit for more than ten years now and I only hurd of em today .. they deserve mad props yo
gtg, peace out

Dirty Acres

Wooo, over a thousand visit to my blog, awesome.. I don't even post that much lol

sorry yall, Ramadan really is some shit, I sleep all day and cruze all night, I can't find anytime to do anything. but I'll drop some stuff later.

anyways, I thought I could use my traffic to promote Cunninlynguists new joint Dirty Acres .. If you don't know who Cunninlynguists are, they're just another motherfuckas bringin truth in the form of hip hop.. they drop science with thier "Stunning English" and life visions and philosophy, rappin about diffrent issues from love to politics their shit is a must have. You Never Know Ft. Immortal Technique is a good example of their hip hop revolution.
and clcik here to download the pro for their new album which is going to drop by the end of November, Dirty Acres .. I didn't listen to it yet, waiting for Azan so I can smoke me a fat joint before listenin to it..
I promised myself I'll buy it if I ever left Sudan, all they sell here is crag david and 50 cent man, what a shame, but I'll buy the shit, you too.. support the artists if you like their work, don't be a bitch.. aite.

Life Is a Struggle

I told you.. this is art

My mind flashed back to the early moon
When I was just a sperm cell in the fallopian tube
In the mist of a state of triple darkness
Going through a struggle so I could exist
Avoiding everything that came within my path
As I watch other sperm cells get ripped in half
One out of a million completes the job
And for the other sperm cells the womb is a grave yard
Though my travels I had to pass through
Alot of battles and violent hassles
Cause inside the womb I was a foreign object
I'm like a new nigga walking through the project
Trouble, everywhere I turn
Damn its a struggle just being a sperm
cell, so I attempt to prevail
I guess the womb is the first stage of hell
Now here I am in the danger zone
My head and my tail, my 23 chromosomes
But then again yo it can't be that bad cause my dad
He could have used a body bag
And if so then my tomb would have been the trash can inside my moms bedroom
But they was fucking, they was true to this
And here a go on a mission to the uterus
A million mother fuckers tried to race ahead
But I was the one that fertilized the egg
Then I thought then I was safe
Because I reached home base
But oh no my job wasn't done
In fact my troubles had only begun life as a struggle
Life is the struggle
Life is the struggle

by Tha RZA from his album Birth of a Prince

The Joy and The Hurt

Sorry yall, I'm through my final exams these days, so I won't be blogging for a while..
I almost finished a long article about Sahih Bukhari, I'll post it here soon and on MidEastYouth. all later.
so yeah, till then, listen to a great poet from America. Killah Priest, The B.I.B.L.E.

Latino Love

Finally, someone from South America viewed my blog (cheak my map below). lol, I know it's nothing, but to me it means a lot, plus, I'm bored and I wanna post something. I have respect to the people of that part of the world since I was a kid, thanks to cartoon shows like The Mysterious Cities of Gold and I'm still sad cuz I never had a chance to finish Andes Shonen Pepero no Boken (which is known as the Golden Eagle in its arabic version), I hope he found his dad. these shows and other stuff introduced me to the great civilizations of the Inca, Aztec, and Maya people. They were great people who were misinterpreted by most western media as people who do human sacrifices, but who wasn't at that time? Romans did it, Arabs did it, Africans did it. plus, what the spaniards did to them was much worse than human sacrifices, but since we're living in a white world, we don't get to see the atrocities committed by europeans(Latinos still facing atrocities by the USA fascist regime who acts like its their backyard), nope, I aint being racist here, it's the truth. and it's also the truth that these people developed great mathematical and astronomical systems nobody ever thought of it before, and they built some beatiful pyramids, like this one.




and of course, I can't forget that it's the continent that gave birth to Ernesto Guevara. and Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Isbel Allende, plus everybody around here says I look mexican, lol.
anyways, this latino who viewd my page seems to be from Uruguay, thanks buddy and good luck at the Copa America. and to all yall, Immortal Technique (who's also a proud peruvian fighter) got something to say.

Still smokin, what?

hey yall, sorry i didn't update in such a long time.. my bad. and to those who left some comments and i didn't reply to you, i'm really sorry but i'll get back atcha soon. it's just been some real shit here.
and between gettin topics titled with my name and waiting for Sudanese Thinker's blog to get back so I see what else commentors got to say on some of the issues he always comes up with. I found out that Akir and Immortal Technique released a new video, and it's so good for underground cats, I know IT made some mad money of sellin his dope Revolutionary Vol. 2 without a major deal, nigga got rich. anyways here's the video, you'll never see it on BET. and I'll come back with some shit later. peace

Build Strong

yo yo confused but yet wise my problem surrounds me
A lot of things upset me as my soul rejects me
enemy of self physically enslaved
by the luxuries of this world so I behave
like a man inside the grave
who's life is lost
I want the promised gold but can't afford the cost
or could I, I know the prescribed laws
any effect is a result of the cause
of lies and delusions to myself I have lied
burning inside wanting to open wide
and scream
the name of the supreme
but I'm trapped in this world
lusting for girls
therefore I imagine a genie and a wish
and searching for things that just does not exist
but in the midst there's the answer for which i have searched
cause from me springs divine prince rakeem
and that is me the master of equality
with the ability
to set myself free
but b.o.b.b.y
he don't want to die,
he don't want to die he don't want to try
so I'm forced to cry
and get trapped up for living my life inside a lie
these problems surround me
a lot of things upset me
as my soul rejects me
enemy of my self physically enslaved
by the luxuries of this world so I behave
like a man inside the grave
who's life is lost
I want the promised gold but I can't afford the cost
or could I, I heard of the prescribed laws
any effect is a result of the cause
of lies and delusions to myself I have lied
burning inside and wanting to open wide
and scream
the name of the supreme
but I'm trapped in this world
I'm lusting for girls
before I imagined a genie and a wish
and I'm searching for things that does not exist
but in my midst there's the answer
for which i have searched
cause from me springs the divine prince rakheem
and that is me the master of equality
give myself the opportunity
and set free and be all I can be
be all I can be
and not a nigga just trapped up in luxury

yo bobby digitial got to get knowledge of his self right now,
as we go through the struggle of life we got to go from boy to man
we start off as sperm to baby baby to man from man to dead man
and from dead man back to sand
all praises due to allah the most high word up
I got to be free I got to be free I got to break free
I got to break free I got to break free I got to break.....