A night of Hiphop in town!
Yes, it sounds too cool for me, usually I am proudly a very uncool person :) yesterday, and my class mates coaxed me to go hip hoping with them! What an experience it was!
We went to this club after dinner, because we decided it would be nice to spend some time together. Our semester is coming to an end, and we are all a bit sad about it, especially that half of the class will not be there next year, as they graduate this year.
We went to this club off Oxford Street; it was freezing cold with a little snow. We went into the club, it was very smoky and people standing near each other like a sardines in a can. People were dressed in baggy pants worn very loosely, baseball caps worn backwards; oversized rugby or polo shirts, and expensive tennis shoes, some of them even had sun glasses.
What was very striking is that it would seem like a male dominated African culture yet, it is a culture that crossed over different ethnicities and gender, and you find people from everywhere, just enjoying the music and united in this amazing atmosphere. I really liked looking at my class mates, Christian and Carla, who are a very well dressed, always impeccably tidy and fashionable and who would go there and start singing and dancing… they looked completely out of place with their fashionable clothing, yet very much at home.
It was a Karoke night, where people will have wrote their names before hand and they would be called to sing the songs they prepared… it was like being part of the movie 8 mile… the whole concept is street language transmitted to the hip hop culture through rap music. Since Christian knew the DJ and the presenter and some of the performers, we were privileged to go all the way to the front and stand with the DJ and the presenter, who were really good and seemed to be enjoying that music.
I had an absolutely great evening, I felt so young, so alive and just so out there at the top of the world! and i completely loved it… myabe i would develop a hip hop ear, because the ear i have suffered some aches! but with time
It was cool man! Yeah yeah!
Wein il pictures!
heard dat.
Cool:)
I always wanted to go to karaoke!hope someday I’ll do that:)
peace sista!
believe me ya Roba, One thing i always regret is losing my camera, but yesterday it was one of these days when the regret was too big to bear! so i decided to give myself a gift for my birthday and that would be new digital camera
yeah man!
wallah ohoud, it is so much fun, epecially when your friend start going up there, making fool out of themelves very proudly!
dear lady ,hip hop or rap my ignorants may tells me wrong that both are the same is it? I hope not .
I want you to please copy and paste the URL once you do that it will open to save it may take time to open in to a very subtle rap clip “political” the least ! but very close to home! it is true and subtle ,once you get the clip playing please listen attentively to the words and its meaning ,reality in motion .
http://www.dam3rap.com/erhabe.wmv
actually, I know this one, I will play it next week in class for the terrorrism topic
dear lady ,your in class preparations on terrorism you cant but include Rachel Corrie ,sure you know of her , just in case you dont know her.(check her website bellow.
Rachel Corrie (April 10, 1979–March 16, 2003) (we are celeibrating her death this week )was a member of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) who traveled as a peace activist to the Gaza Strip during the Intifada. She was killed when she tried to obstruct an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) a bulldozer operating in a Palestinian residential area of Rafah to demolish house with the tenants in it .that the Israel Defense Forces had designated a security zone.
The circumstances of her death are disputed. The ISM and other who claimed to be eyewitnesses say that the driver of the bulldozer, deliberately ran over her twice while she was trying to stand in it’s way to prevent what the ISM claimed as demolitions. The IDF say that she was interfering with security operations designed to clear brush and debris next to a building , IDF claim that the bulldozer driver didn’t and could not see her from the top of the D-9 - in usual operation of such heavy machinery is always done when a guide is standing on the ground to direct the D-9 operator (by radio), however,. a guide could not have directed the D-9 operator that day. the IDF investigation claims that Corrie was climbing on the mound created when the D-9 was clearing the brush and that the cause of death was falling debris pushed over by the bulldozer. Yet to day we have photos of the whole event to show that Corrie was setting on the ground ,and her group singing to the bulldozer driver about Currie ,yet he drove straight over her to death ,I wish I have your email to send you the photos taken on the scene
http://www.rachelcorrie.org/
I remember that story very vivdly, thanks for reminding me