LadyLushana: TIMZ: Chaldean hip-hop artist

Friday, January 26, 2007

TIMZ: Chaldean hip-hop artist

Already TIMZ, Tommy Hanna, is getting attention from the right wing media for the content of his video. TIMZ is going on national TV tonight, Hannity and Colmes /FOX NEWS/ not a good move unless you want to have your head split open.

My take on his video: It is very powerful but some of it is historially inaccurate. we have to get away from the dessert background. In an interview, he disses hip-hop. I know he is catering to a Chaldean audience but really, he should honor the work of African-American artists who use rap and hip-hop to convey political messages and who have created this genre of popular poetry. Hip-hop has been revolutionary and transformative and should be acknowledged not just co-opted! That said, his piece is powerful and I was happy to hear a Chaldean-Iraqi dissing Bush. about time!
CONGRATULATIONS TO TIMZ and to Ron Najor, filmmaker, for filming/editing the video. nice work, really.

Read this post.

My comments above are based on this article: http://cdbaby.com/cd/timz

LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK OF HIS VIDEO OR THIS ARTICLE.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

TIMZ is awesome!!!
I bought his album about 2 months ago and still listen to it everyday. "Iraq" is a great powerful message but his other music is very entertaining. TIMZ is going to make it very big very soon.

3:52 PM  

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