Posted on 06/27/2006 6:49:59 PM PDT by blam
G-had and suicide bombers: the rapper who likens Bin Laden to Che Guevara
· Record label chiefs' threat to quit over violent lyrics
· This is about freedom of expression, says musician
Mark Brown, arts correspondent and Luc Torres
Wednesday June 28, 2006
The Guardian (UK)
Two record company executives are threatening to resign from a label over an album by a radical Muslim musician which has tracks about the immorality of the west, suicide bombers and Osama bin Laden.
Aki Nawaz is determined to release what is, by anyone's standards, a phenomenally angry album. He says he fully expects a knock on the door from MI5. As the main component of the band Fun-da-Mental, Nawaz has been producing politically challenging music since 1991 but accepts he is pushing those boundaries further.
The album, All is War (The Benefits of G-had), contains one track which uses the words of Bin Laden issuing "a statement of reason and explanation of impending conflict" and equates him with Che Guevara. Another forensically recreates a suicide bomber at work. The opening song is a rejection of what Nawaz sees as the hypocrisy and immorality of the west. One supposedly dream-like track predicts the demise of America at the hands of Islam.
Nawaz, a former drummer in the Southern Death Cult, said yesterday: "I have a right to push the boundaries as much as anyone else has, whether it's Ken Loach or Harold Pinter or George Galloway or Neil Young or the Sex Pistols."
He recognises some people will say his album should not be released, that it might incite people. "I've already told all the lyricists don't worry if we get into trouble, I'll take all the blame. If they're going to lock anyone up they'll lock me up. I'm not scared...
(Excerpt) Read more at arts.guardian.co.uk ...
The guy on the right is thinking "stick a fork in him, he's done."
MI5 doesn't usually knock...
Yep. Gay as a Maypole dance.
If you can't get attention by being good, try being bad.
It's the serial killer syndrome.
More content in his intestines than his head.
ON THE NET...
http://www.fun-da-mental.co.uk/
http://www.dicklaurentisdead.com/fun-da-mental/forum.php
http://www.dicklaurentisdead.com/fun-da-mental/alliswar.html
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