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Omar Offendum - #Syria

OFFENDUM X POETS of PROTEST (Oo vs PP) is an experimental juxtaposition of some of the Arab World's most notable poetic voices layered &amp; scratched by Filipino-American DJ Boo over a mix of sample-based Hip-Hop instrumentals from Omar Offendum's beat catalogue. 

The four poets sampled were Mazen Maarouf (Palestine), Manal Al Sheikh (Iraq), Ahmed Fouad Negm (Egypt) &amp; Hala Mohammad (Syria) - as seen/heard on the Aljazeera Artscape series 'Poets of Protest' released a little over one year ago (Sep 2012). After listening to this short mix (16:15), we encourage you to watch the full documentary series which includes two more poets (Yehia Jaber of Lebanon &amp; Al Khadra of Algeria / Sahara), as well as translations of all their verses &amp; links to more of their inspiring work &gt;&gt;

http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/poetsofprotest/

It is our hope that this project can serve as a bridge between lovers of poetry & hip-hop - between America & the Arab World - between generations, languages, cultures & continents . . . Please share this mix with your friends, family, parents & professors!

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For more on DJ Boo, visit: http://www.facebook.com/boo.jenkins & Twitter: @Boo515 

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Sinsyrianly

- Oo

OO vs PP

1st World Problems

ft. Meryem Saci and Omar Offendum.
Produced by Zoog and Fase



Average Type

Ana Tijoux 'Vengo' on iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/album/vengo/id805968595

and Amazon: www.amazon.com/Vengo-Ana-Tijoux/dp/B00HXEWFAY/

Ana Tijoux - Vengo

Ellie Goulding & Angel Haze cover James Blake's 'Life Round Here'.
Produced by Noah Breakfast
Mixed by Ryan Schwabe & Noah Breakfast for Rare MP3s Co.
Mastered by Ryan Schwabe

Life Round Here (Feat. Angel Haze)

Angel Haze - Battle Cry [PARENTAL ADVISORY] ft. Sia

Ana Tijoux 'Vengo' on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/vengo/id805968595

and Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Vengo-Ana-Tijoux/dp/B00HXEWFAY/

Ana Tijoux - Somos Sur (feat. Shadia Mansour)

The Narcicyst Featuring Shadia Mansour-Hamdulilah  Gaza Remix

This track is from the album Syrianamericana and is available for purchase on CD Baby here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/OmarOffendum

Damascus

Destiny

Straight Street

Father's Day

Unreleased joint from The Narcicyst's album recording in 2010. This HJ banger didn't make the cut but has been performed and is a Hobson Jobson favorite.

The Narcicyst and Omar Offendum (Hobson Jobson) - The Club (prod. By Sandhill)

"Dedicate"
featuring Meryem Saci, Freddy V, Malika Tirolien, Maimouna Youssef)
(Y.Alsalman, M.Saci, P.Kennedy)
Performed by The Narcicyst
Produced by Think Twice
The Medium 2014

You said when I was born, I could do anything
I could tell you were torn right out of heaven 
and 
I would be selfish If I didn't dedicate Everything
I knew when I was born I would do anything
to let you see heaven inside your feathered wings
they dissapeared with the years and that made you 
my everything. 

Verse 1:
I seen it all through the walls of an incubator
back then, what is now, wouldn't link until later
The type of moment that changed my sister with a brother now
make her never doubt what she thinks she's made of.
The birth of my father's legacy (therapy)
before I put ink to paper
Big headed when she carried him,
that's cesarean must have saved her!
Mama knew, Baba grew, out his moons' biggest crater.
Wait Up,
The first time I ever flowed was when the water broke
Second time, from my eyes, when I 
First time I ever wrote on an akward note, 
on the day I saw my brother fly..
Now I...

Chorus:
My mama said, mama said don't you grow up too fast
my papa said, nothing in this world is built to last.

Verse 2: 
She said baby, all those fears need letting go
I said, yeah, maybe, but I fear letting go.
I'm a child with you around, why'd you make me grow up,
will you let me know when I need to show up?
It's been a very hard year though, I know love
Unspoken, heavy hearts hear so much.
So I say this, you are sacred
for your patience and your greatness.
While you struggle for a pay cheque,
making ends meet just to make amends greet at the day's end. 
and when my days end, and the night come,
you're the soul I'll be searching for the light from..
That's why we shine so bring ma...
somethings you can't fight huh?
Life without a price on,
until I stand under my sun...

Chorus X 1
Bridge X 2 



Dedicate

Originally recorded in 2007, this remix to the original 'Hamdulillah' was released during the second Intifadah in Palestine, after Israel pounded Gaza with bombs.

It is unfortunate that the lyrics are still very relevant to this day. No Justice, No Peace. Long Live a Free and Equal Palestine. Until Then, we resist however we can. 

Hamdulillah (Gaza Remix) Ft. Shadia Mansour

DJBooth Premiere: http://bit.ly/1vqhyGW
In recent years more than ever, Hip-Hop has been a platform of boasting ones possessions or idea of wealth. While there's no shame in showing off every so often by toasting to the good life, there's an ugly truth that needs to be exposed. War, genocide, corruption; these are the things that are leaving a scar in our history books. Whereas some rappers may just gloss over these disasters, Constant Flow is here to tell the whole truth to the masses. Fresh from the release of "Dog Tags," the 2nd single taken from his Viper Records debut LP, 'Ascension,' CF keeps the momentum rocking with "Moment of Peace," a sharp tongued reflection of the world examined through real people, not just mass media. As Melanie Fontana supplies a chilling hook that blends effortlessly with the fact-paced instrumental, Viper's frontman, Immortal Technique, drops a potent series of double time bars that will leave new listeners and long time fans hitting the rewind button. "Moment of Peace" is the 3rd and final leak taken from 'Ascension,' which is set to drop next Tuesday, September 2nd, so check out the track while pre-ordering the album via iTunes!

• iTunes Pre-Order: bit.ly/1ooO9ny
• Album Press Release: bit.ly/XHq9Xz
• Previous: https://soundcloud.com/viper-records/03-dog-tags-ft-swave-sevah?in=viper-records/sets/cf-ascension-sept-2nd

Tracklist:
01. Ascension
02. Anatomy of a Revolutionary
03. Dog Tags (feat. Swave Sevah & Akir)
04. Danger Zone
05. Celebrate Life (feat. Wyme & Chino XL)
06. Extra
07. Moment Of Peace (feat. Immortal Technique & Melanie Fontana)
08. Winter Blood (feat. Beast1333)
09. Young Lord (feat. Kelly Finnigan of Monophonics & Wyme)
10. Devil's Maze (feat. Immortal Technique)
11. Bars (feat. Dontique)
12. Sunshine (feat. P.J. Pacifico)
13. You're All Welcome

Twitter:
• Constant Flow: twitter.com/CF201
• Immortal Technique: twitter.com/ImmortalTech
• Melanie Fontana: twitter.com/MELANIEFONTANA
• Southpaw: twitter.com/spmusik
• Viper Records: twitter.com/ViperRecords

iTunes Pre-Order

Constant Flow (feat. Immortal Technique & Melanie Fontana) - "Moment of Peace"

Follow Narcy on twitter: www.twitter.com/TheNarcicyst
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/The-Narcicyst/90624925723
Website: www.narcy.net

The Narcicyst - Fly Over Egypt 
Directed by Wesam Nassar
Song Produced by Bei-Ru
All Lyrics by The Narcicyst (Y.Alsalman)
Concept by Sundus Abdul Hadi, 
Photgraphy byRidwan Adhami and Tamara Abdul Hadi 
Graphics by Nik Brovkin
2012 All rights reserved by The Medium

Chorus:
In the light of day you are more than just a knight
seeking for a right of way asking is it just to fight..
I feel the winds of change, but everything is still the same
Even Though I fear the sun, I can only see the reign...


Verse:
Won't need no magic carpets, 
genies alladin sparking 
he, Me, Bags of the darkest 
nights in the fat of august..
lights from the flash of knowledge, 
gave all my cash to college, 
They pay me no dime if you pay me no mind, 

Don't play me your rhymes or slay me no swine
homie just back up off us!
wrap it up...  we packing up and we'll be back in the morning...
What is your revolution? going in circles daily?
Step out your virtual office, why we work to get lazy?...

Having motherless babies...  they lift curtains up off us...
that's why we use our spotlights in the search for their coffins
Love, 
From Jail Bird Fathers  
turned us to Doves, that Hail All Maytyrs....

Chorus:
In the light of day you are more than just a knight
seeking for a right of way asking is it just to fight..
I feel the winds of change, but everything is still the same
Even Though I fear the sun, I can only see the reign...(x2)

Verse 2:
More Power to the People 
Point out your brothers evils.
Give your sister a hand, although she doesn't need you...
See Your Flaws when you wake up, they are nothing to sleep through...
and all the money in the world might keep you warm and feed you..

Before the greed will eat you...Do you believe we're equal? 
Or just a plus or minus, they either want or need you.
Society cerebral..Spiritual Cemetary.... 
Where we've buried our feelings for people we visit rarely,

The Television told me the we're living in scary times,  
We were blind, I could see it clearly..
I wouldn't speak so you could hear me on the beat..
Heard they fear me if i was beardy...
As long as the fashion can match the passion, then you'll listen really...

If nothing is certain...assertively it serves a purpose
We are on the verge of chaos and everything is perfect.
Blow my clouds in cursive...searching around an earth
Deserted but proud and worth of all these soundless words...
May i ask you ...

Chorus:
In the light of day you are more than just a knight
seeking for a right of way asking is it just to fight..
I feel the winds of change, but everything is still the same
Even Though I fear the sun, I can only see the reign...

Bridge:
Can, i hitch a ride, come.... let us fly over the egypt
and find, peace in our mind...denying our demons.
my light will you be right, there by my side when I see this...
and can I kiss  your eyes, so we can fly over Egypt...

Chorus:
In the light of day you are more than just a knight
seeking for a right of way asking is it just to fight..
I feel the winds of change, but everything is still the same
Even Though I fear the sun, I can only see the reign...(x2)

The Narcicyst- Fly Over Egypt

Blame The Label (Ghida Fakhry)
(Y.Alsalman, N.Al-Rufaie)
Produced by Sandhill (@sandhillmusic)
Written by The Narcicyst (@TheNarcicyst)
Recorded at Doctor Dinar's Dungeon 
Mixed at Pop Dukes
Mastered at SoundStuck Studios, Dubai (@soundstruckdxb) 
Published by The Medium/ Write or Wrong Publishing 2012

Chorus:
We are Coming, For Your Money
I doubt you could stop us now, we came to seize The Earth
Sick and Tired, Un-inspired,
This game is killing me, it's filling me with dreams deferred..

Verse 1:
I got sick of the gat clapping and back packing
Handclaps when I rapped of Iraq on a track- blacking out
I'm Waking up in half an hour, Shaking up your vapid power
Peoples hearts are half in doubt- acting sour
Planes started smacking towers (Owwww)
Eagle to an Owl, Malcolm to Louis
You funny style, Apatow
Throw Money on the lap of our Eve, Madame Laugh and bow, Halal?
Sonny, don't have a cow...
Just Blame The Label, for telling you to say the same Bull Shit.
That's how it has to be! Engineer it has to peak, 
You could never master me, Bounce The Track- Master P.
So When I drop the crazy anthem B, You know we killing them kid- Casey Anthony
Police chasing after me, this ain't a comedy akh uggggnnn
I got you thinking " I AM F'ed" like Dominique Strauss-Kahn

Chorus X 1

Verse 2:
Let the bottom thump. We're brushing up over here (hair) like Donald Trump
But I will rock'em if he G's (Jesus) like Madonna's Son
Show them how to run a biz without a lunge
Take the cake, bought the lunch
If only you read like a Bono Fund
Labels, skimping on bread like McDonald Buns
No Shots, or semi-auto guns, I'll send a heavy hollow one,
And bend the time out of them like
"Mashallah Dun, you are the ONE"
Stop Playing with me, Hello, Are you Listening?
I'm not rich, may be Arab with the paisley Apparel,
Bow ties, Don't style, when you're grazing with Camels, I'm grown
Sick and Tired, Sometimes, Uninspired
But I blame it on the lavender
Smoked out, you can quote me like a manager
Man, I'm cozy up in Canada.
Stuck, Yuck, to be honest, I'm broke but my uncles rich like Donald Duck
Cartoon Islamic, throw your hands up,
In the air like fear of the man up, Stairs,
You a joke, look in the mirror- where?, OVER THERE, You're on Candid Camera.
Whether you are high or you're dying for truth.
Jeff Goldblum, I'm fly in the booth,
Even though I'm feeling likeee.....

Chorus X 1

Ghida Fakhry:
We appreciate all your feedback
Positive or Negative

Verse 3:
Al Jazeera Fever
Ghida Fakhry out in Costa Rica
I met her in Doha, Eating, Gave her the Local Greeting (Salam)
She says she knows the Medium, and we fly like Helium
We got your back like an Orthopedic...(word?)
Riz Khan sipping Pellegrino,
I must be dreaming I can't tell if he knows, or we know,
and she broke in half,
My wife smacked me with the television remote
I woke up mumbling "This album is one hell of a sequel...go tell your people"

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