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

Gissat al Masoora al Maksoora/ The Broken Pipe Fairytale

Big Welcome to the new blogger SudaneseActifist, who's a dear friend of mine. and here is her Masoora Story :)

Once upon a time, not so long ago (at least 3 months ago), a suicide bomber pipe in Umdurman decided to explode. The pipe was in al-7itana, an area not so old, the pipeline must have been installed at least 20 years ago. Then the government increased water flow. What a noble thing to do. They want to give people more water but with such strong water flow the pipes struggled to subdue.

Poor suicidal 7itana pipe couldn’t take it anymore. Water flowed so strong, more than it could afford. It exploded flooding the whole street causing all sorts of disarray. The street was not paved so ponds kept getting formed. Mosquitos, frogs and wildlife have found a new home!

I know one girl that lives there that kept calling the Water Lords (aka Water Authority of the State of Khartoum). She called them AT LEAST 10 times she said but of course no solution was even sought. Other neighbors also called but only for their demise. All they got in return was a whole bunch of lies. Then they
were told the government cares, no more water should go to waste. They’re installing water meters to prevent the watershed! Rejoice people of 7ittana
water meters will be there FOR you! Yet the broken pipe also stood right there releasing water like a salvo :/

Watershed moment is what the water meters caused. People of 7ittana, Nas al 7illa, rose and roared no water meters shall be installed; “if the water lords dared to mess, they better fix the broken pipe before they can only blame themselves!” For sending a water meter messenger
that will only be beaten up, will be of no good but for the ruthless hospital
thugs (a.k.a some government hospital staff).

The story’s incomplete as we can’t but sit and wait. Will the people rise up or was it all just roars and talk? Will action be taken? And who will start the onslaught? or will it all just be forgotten as the water meters get installed? but who will pay for the broken pipe? whose water meter will it condemn?

I promise I shall keep you posted all they way until the end so stay tuned ya nas and listen up with intent :P

P.S. This is a true story. I’m going to go take pictures of the broken water pipe and post them really soon.

Visit our group "against prepaid water meters" here: https://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_220939071259504

and oh, this morning, Al-Intibaha newspaper published the Khartoum Governor's "directions" to stop installing the new meters in residential areas.

Bloggin' Back Real Soon

hopefully .. :)

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

"I told You So"ish - Sudanese Election Fraud on Video

so yeah, they blocked Youtube in Sudan.. AGAIN ..
this VIDEO came out, and .. Youtube went out ..
we'll need THIS again, I won't even change the group's describtion

blogging later

SudaRap Mixtape Vol.1

SudaRap Mixtape Vol.1

"New mixtape collects the pieces of the sudanese rappers puzzle, picky representative and unreleased tracks are being preformed by Sudan's sickest emcees, the concept is ultimate and totally fullfilled by different techniques and styles, vary from the old skool, modern rap and underground hardcore, ripped by english and of course, our lovely sudanese accent.

SudaRap Mixtape is an effictive addition to the hip hop scene in sudan, and will be considered as the spark that gathers all Sudanese artformers to participate together and strike with one hand."

شريط سوداراب الاصدار الأول

"هو شريط جديد يجمع قطع الأحجية المتناثرة للرابرز السودانيين، مجموعة من الأغاني المختارة بعناية و غير مطروحة في الساحة سيتم أدائها من قبل افضل الرابرز السودانيين، مفهوم الشريط هو كامل و منجز كليا باستخدام عدة تقنيات و اساليب، وتتنوع من الاولد سكول راب و الراب الحديث الى الهاردكور راب، و اللغة المستخدمة هي الانقليزية و بالطبع لهجتنا المحبوبة السودانية، سلسلة شرائط سوداراب هي اضافة فعالة لساحة الهيب هوب في السودان و ستعتبر الشرارة التي ستجمع كل الفنانين السودانيين لكي يجتمعو ويهاجمو بيد واحدة. "


Mixtape is hosted and manged by Hashim Tha Brainstorm (AKA Zoulotary from ReZOULution) & Rebel S..

The Artwork Desinge is by Rebel S

DOWNLOAD AND SPREAD PLEASE: http://www.mediafire.com/?dwqze24lmnm
(size: -70MB)

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