Arabic rap (DAM)
Interesting. Good way to target the youth, with this type of music.
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Here’s more:
Born here (Hebrew & Arabic)
Generation (reggae and rap) song
Hat tip to Jina for these songs. Meen erhabe? Inta erhabe!
About Palestinian hip hop and the band:
For many of these Palestinian hip hop artists, hip hop is not only used as political expression but a form of peaceful dissent. Palestinian youths’ lives are plagued by violent tensions between the two warring nations that manifest themselves in physical aggression. Hip hop has become a “form of creative nonviolent resistance against the military occupation,” where violent resistance and violent repression are the norm. According to documentarian Jacqueline Sacalloum, “hip hop has become an expression of Palestinian identity in the face of Israeli oppression”, and it provides “a bridge to understanding the Palestinian struggle as well as highlighting the way creative resistance serves not only as a powerful educational tool but also as a source of strength and community”. Also, “Music can be a good weapon,” explains Palestinian hip hop artist Tamer.
An example of a group who has armed itself with its lyrics is DAM, a trio of rappers, Tamer Nafer, Suhell Nafer, and Mahmud Jiery, who hail from Ramleh. The group’s name means blood in both Arabic and Hebrew and is also associated with the English curse word. DAM blends the influences of 2pac and Mos Def’s American hip hop flavor with the traditional Arabic music greats, George Wasouf and Fairuz.
DAM “sing about the racism and living as third class citizens, police brutality , and wanting to be united with all Arabs around the world.” In songs such as “Who’s the Real Terrorist?” DAM spit powerful lyrics in Arabic in attempt to raise political awareness of the Palestinian struggle. Documentarian Jacqueline Sacalloum produced a highly politicized music video for DAM’s song “Who’s the Real Terrorist?” But unlike mainstream music videos, DAM’s short documentary style video did not include scantily clad women or enormous diamond chains. The video was a blend of disturbing footage that showcased acts of violence against Palestinian people and a provocative track that begged the viewer to question who the real terrorists were.
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arabic rap always seems a little off to me, I dont think they have perfected the melody. Not to criticize though, I like the message.
I admit I was caught by the sound and the pictures? But, how many times would I want to listen to it? maybe once in two months? My wife is listening to Chinese rap sung by a 26 year old classically trained composer who grew up in China town in New York……
The new album by DAM has been advertized here in Berlin in the public transportation system..
Edo River, ya please please what’s that guy’s name. I’ve been wanting to get his music for so long but I forgot his damn name.
I am sure that Israili assholes who occupied the holy land are happy now. Finally they have a land to kill in. They have evil “heart” if any, since they were born. However, these poor guys who made this song, am sure that they are not living in Palistine. As they can sing. They ppl in Palistine now cant sing, eat not go to work as normal ppl as THE WHITE HEARTED israili ppl are occupying thier land and space of living. So DAM ISRAILI ppl DAM these singers and DAM anyone who want peace to ISRAILI WHO OCCUPIED Palistine.
Who is the real terrorist?
It’s not those who want to kill Jews, who have collaborated with the Nazis, who want to wipe Israel off the map.
It’s the Jews, isn’t it?
The “holy land” is holy because of its Jewish history. There is nothing “evil” about the Jewish wish to live in the land Jews believe G-d has given to them.
But trying to murder these Jews IS evil.
And blaming the Israeli reacton as the reason for that evil is hypocritical.
Israel will ALWAYS react violently when attacked. ALWAYS. Whoever attacks Israel will have to get used to that.
“Pharoah sought to scare them out of the land: but We drowned him together with all who were with him. Then We said to the Israelites: Dwell in this land. When the promise of the hereafter comes to be fulfilled, We shall assemble you all together.”
Arabic is just not a language to be rapped in. Same goes to Persian. I mean hell, even Korean rap sounds better.
But I think they’re using hip hop to attract the youth, and I think it’s working.
Calm down please.
And I assure you, with this attitude of yours, the war will go on.
So, Israel can attack but not expect a reaction? Not exactly fair. Violence breeds violence. You attack people, they attack you back, and so it goes.
Just so you know Andrew I respect your views and understand why you have them, I’m just saying that justifying violence sometimes adds to it. Whether be it in the name of God or self-defense, it’s still violence, and it still hurts innocent people. Maybe a naive mentality to have but I hate dismissing people’s deaths as inevitable consequences, from either side.
I used to be much more realistic than this, saying, “I guess it had to happen,” but it doesn’t have to happen. Sometimes things are taken too far for no apparent reason. I put myself in these people’s shoes, people who lost family, friends, loved ones, everything they owned and treasured, and I imagine being talked to, by someone like myself… I feel disgusted by my views, that’s why I had to change them. If in that situation, someone approached me and said, “sorry for your loss, but it had to happen, it’s part of this transformation,” I think I would’ve puked. I’d be in denial.
Human emotions, huh? Does wonders to the brain. Screw the systematic way of thinking though, I have a heart and feelings, and sure they cloud my judgement, it’s just frustrating to know that there are ways to avoid this, and there are thousands of people there who are trying to achieve it, yet there’s no encouragement.
If my family was wiped out, God forbid, the last thing I’d think about is politics. I wouldn’t think, “this is a reaction, I’ll stay logical for now, I’ll be realistic, I’ll be fair,” I’m going to be insane. You have to understand that. You are not going to be mentally balanced when you lose your everything. People react from that insanity, they don’t think about politics anymore, or what’s fair. They think about what they lost, and they want to do something about it. When all they see is further bloodshed, men carrying these dead bodies in a protest, their mothers helping to dig mass graves for their children… You don’t think. You just feel, and you let your heart bleed for a bit, and that sometimes results in violence.
Even despite starting this site in an effort to bring understanding, there are certain things we are all capable of doing but don’t necessarily want to do. But we’ll do these things, as a last resort at least. Especially in a situation like that where the last thing I’d be doing is “thinking” and being fair. It’s horrible, but so is human nature. It takes a beautiful mind to escape these feelings, and a lot of strength. Many people have achieved having peaceful feelings even after they lost their loved ones, I admire them greatly, but I’ll admit I’m weak. Maybe this site will help me gradually overcome that weakness and not let my emotions get in the way of fair and logical thinking.
At least they WANT to whipe Israel off the map and didn’t actually do it, but the Jews actually whipped Palesine off the map and… ehhh get the picture now.
They collaborated with Nazis? Nazis killed 6 million Jews… British killed over 40 million people in South Asia alone and you collaborated with them.
Well, judging my your hasty statements..you would have us believe that this rap video included many proven Palestinian ‘terrorists’? Rather than say, your racist collectivisation of the Palestinians as being guilt of your previously dialogued crimes.
The reality however, is that Zionist collaboration with the Nazis is an historical fact and we have Lenny Morris’ pioneering work to thank for that. The upper class elitest Zionists from the ZC cut a deal with Eichmann which would see a couple of thousand of their own secure migration to Palestine, if the Zionist Congress helped to stifle any chances of a coordinated uprising in Budapest. This for me, is enough to realise that Zionism is as much an enemy of the Jews and Israelis as it is the Palestinians. The limitless manipulation and harnassing of anti-semitism for political ends is also testament to that.
Friend, you are the one conjuring up notions of a Zionists self-proclaimed ‘god-given’ right to live in Israel being ‘evil’. However, the majority of the world do see Israeli expansion beyond its legal 1967′ borders as a bit of a downer. You must try to cease thinking in extremes. In as much as, because these young guys in this video are expressing their anger about Israeli military activity in the territories and police activity in Lodz…does not mean they’re longing for the destruction of Israel and every Jew inside it. You are falling victim to blatant fearmongering…and racist fearmongering at that.
You really must spin round your David and Goliath story. This may have been applicable at Israel’s inception. However, for nearly four decades Israel has subjected the Palestinians to a vile occupation, which I may had was in full swing for decades before the first suicide attack in Israel, which came in 1994. So your cause and effect chronology needs a re-vamp.
Religious justification for the existence and ethnic character of nations, ahhh bliss.
Well said, clanko.
Did I mention that Stalin was one of the supporters of the state of Israel. Ahhh how wonderful it must be for you to be endorsed by so many tyrants and genocidal maniacs. No wonder Israel turned out he way it did.
Wait a minute. Did we just collectively decide that being Palestinian excludes you from being a terrorist?
I think peace all around would be good idea, so I guess “damn me”.
I know, is that not the most ridiculous thing you ever heard? “I want peace. BUT NOT WITH ISRAEL.”
How does that work?
i really like the video clip we need more clips to open the eyes of the blind who yet cant see they choose to see in 1 eye when god has givin them 2 eyes to see yet we remaind blind dont be 1 eyed open ur eyes and take a better look get the picture
dudez ur video rocks, it depicts the real image of the harassmant on our people,suffring 2 live ,, well aint livin a right?!
anywayz propaganda must be stopped and i think throughout these amazing songz we will succeed , thank u for letting part of the world heed on our conflict,
about peace hh thats funny i mean iz that a lie or smthn we all know that they(isralie) dont want to reconcile!
dudez u rock keeeeeeeeeeeeeppp goin !!!!!!
peace out ma palestinian brotha
free palestine, quick response: i’m with you, free palestine, but if you’re going to rant, at least have the facts straight: all three members of dam live in israel with israeli citizenship. they can sing and they do it well. also, before you wallow in racist hatred, check out the website named for your id freepalestine.com as well as nkusa.com and peacenow and betselem and even ism is full of israelis and jews working hard to end the occupation. as to white-hearted evil, half the country are jews from arabic countries. but then you obviously no nothing about the situation.
other mistakes on this website: dam means eternity in arabic an blood in hebrew and the band is from lod, not ramle.
and to the idiot with the israel’s protecting itself garbage: the benefit of the doubt tells me that if you’ve ever been to a single checkpoint or even town in palestine you know that it’s a bunch of lies protecting the maxim, which is in dam’s song born here, maximum jews, maximum land; minimum arabs, minimum land. the tactic is — make palestinian lives miserable enough to make them sell their land and leave, only they are not willing to pay the price of occupation, which is of course seething anger and hatred.
end racism with solidarity, end sickness with health. free palestine.
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Big Up DAM
Hip-Hop is Universal…
Peace from Spain !!
clanko u r my hero…
DAm and tamir are in my heart.. they just express the feelings of all the arabic people who live in “israel”.. we just sufferinng when we r watching our families in the other side killed…
all that we can do is singing.. at least we dont responed in violente ways…. “andrew”
yea fuck fuck israil and fuck da jew,, they need to fuckin stop,, cuz if they don’t we’r gona fuckem up..
ALLAHO AKBAR
Yo, I think that you guys rock keep it up and i think that you should ask the media to prodcast it on televion spceely in the eastren countries
waz up all welcome in my sait
yo this is a man called mc/r(-)mi its a diss to dam check dis out
you no when im on the mic im gnna trash yah,
put you in the dirt,ure driving me bezerk,
now its time to let loose and murk,
coz rami thats my name,
gonna go all out and put u to shame,
put u in a badass pain,
i drop it like its hot n it gnna kain,
it will be in ure mind like a repeated stain,
my style you wont b able to gain,
its a one way lain,
wat i c ure in front of a train,
all your lyrics are simple and plain,
you not even worth to train,
this crew flying like a plain,
u step to me u must b insane,
now iv finihed wit my rhyme,
go b4 i comit a crime,
now go home n rub ure shit of ure shoulders,
b4 u get my left n right big bad boulders,
so go n get ure bath,
b4 i rub ure face in the path,
coz ure lyrics are shit,
n go bak n sit,
coz u gtta wait in line,
b4 i pull out my nine,
thers plenty more crewz,
spark up n same me toooz,
go to the shop coz u gtta wait,
ill eat ure bars n spew em up on a plate,
now iv had enuf of ure voice,
uv left me no choice,
but to pull it out,
n spread ure ure guts all about.
yo im from the middleast
im tryna live in peace
but i cant coz tamer is still rappin
so imma keep dissin nd smackin
my aim is to keep dat bitch packin
u beter wathch dis
its da end ov anotha MC
who tryd to miss nd fuck with me
imma put u 6 feet in da dirt coz im da G
dont act like you dont know who i be
im da one who hookd your sis with the green weed
im da one who made your mama bleed
nigga,,, your so fuckin weak
nigga,,, to wright a song u need a fuckin week
now let me talk alil bit about me
my name is rami
im from da land ov mony
you cant get me coz im with your mommy
ey bitch let me spit the truth
i dnt think u can rap ineed a fuckn proof
now im done with u but im waitin u to ask for a truce
……..
haha tamer nafar your so fuckin suck i want a freestyle batle betwen us two so hit me up (rom_kalala@hotmail.com)peace from da middleeasr dawwwgggg
yo dis one for palestine
check dis out
icant take dis anymore im livin in hill
they ‘r killin my people nd they want me to chill
but i aint go chill soldiers i’ll kill nd kill
we see dis on da newz evry day””””’
he’s only 10 years old kid
thrown stones nd recivin a bullet in his head
his lil brother is starvin cnt even get a pice ov bread
dont ask about his dad coz he got killed
but his mama got shot ,thy found her dead
he had one brother ,he was sixteen
last year he got shot by the M/16
i want u to wake up ppl,,take my hand
lets fight till we set afree da profets land
by mc RaMi
with love
rom_kalala@hotmail.com
i started wright a ryhmes as akidd
bandana roll my head
walk around with eyez on my back
they hated da boy coz he wasnt black
age 10 i started my pimpin
tryn stay clean
so thers no need 4 hand cuffin
i graduated from oxford schools for all that
now ican rap so fuck skol im to cool to go back
gimmi da mic nd show me where da fuckin studioz at
nd i ll put dat on allah
but the 1st nigga tryz he’s seein allah
salam alikom my brotherz
by dis im leavin you shakin motherfuckerz
peace out yooooooooo
Esra’a,
Thank you for touching the subject, Gazan Hip-Hop
It is a cultural event, hip hop in Gaza, where life is so hard and the conflict is still raging and people some times feel they cannot take it any more where politics do not work and the rocket shooting from Gaza side and the reaction from Israel would not stop…
The problems will continue to persist untill a real peace deal is signed by ambitious representatives of people and then laws defined accrdingly and then enforced and practiced by the governments.
I do picture better days that we do not witness the despair of people there in the region, a region so beautiful, so holy, so peaceful, like a mother who is there to embrace all.
i am happy that youth in Gaza have adopted peaceful ways in expressing their despair, this is wonderful, we need to adopt non violent ways to express oursleves. I pray for the peace, we all need a bit restraint and with a some help from G-d we will have it. I hope the meddling of any ill meaning thrid country ( me names not) wouldn’t play in the way of people there trying to make it better for themselves.
Be well, take care, we all pray for peace
yo wassssssssuuuuuuuuppppp ppl
dis iz mc rami from jordan
icant take seein da blood ov my ppl without doin any thing so im makin a hiphop song about palestine so whoz intrested i ll send him da beat so he or she can record her vers nd send it back to me so i can mix it down so ppl come on lets show them what the arabz can do
peace out
rom_kalala@hotmail.com
the lyrics of DAM are really touching…i think its a really effective way of educating people, especially younger people who listen to rap about the suffering of palestinians..inshallah they will pull through these terrible times
x
DAM is extremely talented and i look up to their work alot. I can truely relate to their struggle, their speaking to the world. FREE PALESTINE!
coooooooooooooooooooooool
I call for people Brave enough, who would denounce any thing that would result in the loss of children, on both sides, in all our region, we need to stop all this, its enough! sigh
Well i do have something to add in here……
Revolution against humilation, agression, harassment, threating, killing does sound as the most peacefull idea…
Let us take animals for example, some animals wont live if u changed her place of living and some do live and needs intensive care…If you for example grabbed a kitty cat infront of her mother the last one would instinctly attack you thinking that you might hurt her baby….
These questions are for you all in here writing your pathetic quotes and blogs and comments……
DO YOU THINK THAT GOD CREATED TWO KINDS OR MORE OF PPL??
WHAT ARE THE X-TRAS THAT YOU HAVE?? 3 KIDNEYS PERHAPS?? OR 2 HEARTS???…
FIGHTING AND DIEING FOR DIGNITY AND HONOR IS BETTER THAN LIVING HUMILATION…
THE FAMOST AND BRAVEST WARRIORS RISED UP FROM FAMILIES WHICH HAD BEEN SLAUGHTERED AND KILLED AND MURDERED…
MURDERES…NOT ALL OF US AS I CAN SEE FROM HERE WOULD RECOGNIZE A MURDERER..
DEFINITION: A murderer is a person who kills attacks threats and make a crime for no reason at all, a murderer is a person having a psycholigical problem called EGO that prevents him from accepting the fact that there are many people better than him, a murderer is a person who finds that killing and murdering is interesting, at last the person who have such qualities i.e. qualities of a murderer will be doommed and damned on earth before his soul heads up between the hands of God where it will be crushed and imprisoned in Hell…..
HAVE FUN MURDERERS BECAUSE THERE WILL COME A DAY, A VERY DARK DAY, THE CURSE WHICH WAS CONSIDERED AS A BLESS WILL TURN TO A BLISS….
GOD MADE SAITAN IMMORTAL TO DROWN HIM MORE IN SINS….
AND IF U WERE MEANT TO BE TERRORISTS BECAUSE OF YOUR READY MADE LAW THEN I CAN’T SAY MORE THAN WE ARE GLAD OF BEING TERRORISTS, IF THE MEANING OF TERRORISM IS FIGHTING FOR LIVING THEN AM WITH ALL HONOR GLAD TO ADMIT THAT AM A TERRORIST…..
GOD HELP THY LONELY SOULS
Issam,
Not that you are attacking me and I keep rapping while you want to stab me dah!
This is a bigger picture than what is in your mind. Building up a culture to bridge a gap of understanding is much more helpful. This is a window opned toward the source of light and the source of life. As the lives of people on this very negligible planet is way too interdependent, it is wise to build up a culture of mutual understanding. I am not talking about two very particular countries and their cultures, I am talking about people of the world in general. SOme times we need to make peace with our own brother, some times we don’t want him around because it is too much bearing him, right? But the same brother could be so helpful when it comes to certain points. Isn’t it better to keep this brother whatsoever? me pathetic you wise and reasonable, np, at least you get to read these posts and that is good. Good from a patheci point of view
heyy yoww…how u all doin..yoo.i wanna say that tamer so rock..keep goin n don listen to the other mothufuck’n ppl…..you soo rock..keep going..i love all ur songs..you real entered my heart with your words..keep goin…n by the way..iam from leb. …..lolz..luv ya..bye
nobody likes us..we don care..
its fucked up how the jews treat palistiniens,
considering how the germans was treating them,
beating them,
on the edge of defeating them,
it leaves me questioning where is the reasoning,
yo check dis…
you see da hate in there eyes
you see they laugh an we cry
were standin tall while they shoot us down
trynna turn our souls around
now were runnin home bound
straight into our hometown
wakin up ta the bombs and guns
make you think that this is fun
they callin me a terrorist
but really were the pacifist
just trying to survive all this
the pain that they put us through
you think that through the holocaust
that they would of grew
i mean grown as in disowned