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...same way that American rappers react to urban poverty and strife, the Palestinians react to the poverty in the Palestinian territories in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. DAM's signature tune "Meen Irhabi" ("Who's The Terrorist"), sparks the same sentiments as songs by Mos Def and Talib Kweli. Other artists like Gaza's Palestinian Rappers and Egypt's Arabian Knightz help bolster the popularity of the music...
...JAPAN: Def Leppard, the ultimate power balladeers of the '80s, toured with wild success in Britain, the U.S. and Japan in the summers of '86, '87 and '88. This year the group has a lower-key itinerary: 50 gigs with Styx throughout the U.S. and Canada...
Despite all of the positive things Simmons has done over the years—he founded the influential Def Jam music label, signed legendary acts like Run-DMC and Public Enemy, started the Def Comedy and Def Poetry Jams, and recorded public service announcements denouncing anti-Semitism with current Def Jam president Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter—I’ve got a beef with him and his latest proposal...
It’s especially hard to take Simmons’s proposal seriously in light of what he wrote about misogynistic lyrics in his 2001 autobiography. In the book, “Life and Def: Sex, Drugs, Money, and God,” Simmons suggests that such cruel words can have a positive impact on young women: “[A]fter years of hearing rappers talk negatively about women, about their babies’ mothers and sex,” he writes, “there’s been a real change in the patterns of teen...
...hair, “the sweater that God won’t let me take off.” Sounds sweaty. A man with a plan, Goel can’t wait until next year when he will “play bass guitar and sing backup in a Def Leppard cover band while living in a van down by the river...