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Sacred Street Art - Bronx, NY


A powerful account of the graffiti mural created in the Bronx New York, a memorial for Mougasa and Soumare families, many of whom died in an apartment block fire in March 2007. Graffiti artist Mohammed Ali, from the UK works alongside the local Bronx community to create a tribute to the family.
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Lil Wayne Praises Allah in “A Millie”

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Lil Wayne says “and the almighty power of Allah” in the song “A Millie” featured on one of his songs from one of his mixtapes. It is also strange how the radio versions of the song replaces “Allah” with “dat chit cha cha cha chopper”. The song was so popular that it was added to his new album coming out “C3″ and guess what, the album version also replaces “Allah” with “dat chit cha cha cha chopper”.

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Dave Chappelle’s Block Party 2 in Dubai?

Dave Chappelle who is Muslim as you know (also his brother and most of his family is as well) had a block party in Brooklyn for free a while back. Now rumor has it he wants to do a second one in Dubai.

According to New York Magazine, ?uestlove (of The Roots) recently spoke with the comedian, who has maintained a low profile as of late. “He wants to redo ‘Block Party,’” said ?uestlove, referring to Chappelle’s 2005 documentary which chronicled the process of organizing and throwing the block party. “I saw Dave the night of Erykah [Badu]’s birthday party in Dallas.”

?uestlove elaborated, revealing Chappelle’s desired location for the project. “Over in Dubai,” he explained. “Except he wants to spice it up a bit and have us perform with a 60-piece orchestra. He’s just like, ‘Promise me you’re going to rhyme over ‘Star Wars,’ that’s all I want.’”

Dubai pays more than the U.S. nowadays. Although the rappers and singers at the Brooklyn Block Party weren’t the typical commerical (c)rappers and singers. Groups like The Roots and rappers like Talib Kweli were the main performers. There lyrics are much better that than of Soulja Boy or Lil Wayne (although he’s currently the killer MC in the game).

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Select portions of “Halal Mix Tape Vol. 1“, featured in Lota Pani Pictures’ “Gandaghee (Dirty)” 2004 DVD release.

Also features an EXCLUSIVE performance of “Sunnahback”, from the forthcoming “Halal Mix Tape Vol. 2″ to be featured on the Fall 2008 DVD release of “Gandaghee 2: Return of the Lota”

Performed live at the 2008 MSA National East Zone USA Conference entertainment session on April 5th, 2008 in Newark, NJ.


He’s like the mini Umar Lee. May Allah (swt) continue to guide him and bless him. Ameen! I found this video via Chill Yo Islam Yo.


Muslims using the N-word

From Imam Zaid’s “Should Muslims use the ‘N’ word?“:

Rather the one affectionately referred to as someone’s “nigga” is the “cool” kid selling the drugs, chasing the girls, sagging his pants, smoking the weed, gang-banging and showing no commitment to or understanding of the value of discipline, education, or history? The “nigga” is the young person we see behaving so utterly embarrassingly in pubic. As Beanie Sigel puts it, “I’ma ride with my niggas, die with my niggas, get high with my niggas…” He is saying that he is going into gang warfare with his friends, die with them in the battle if necessary, get high with them, etc. It would difficult if not impossible to find anyone saying, by way of example, “I’ma go to med school with my niggas, respect my lady with my niggas, rebuild my community with my niggas….“

I highly recommend you to read the full article by Imam Zaid Shakir regarding Muslims using the word ‘nigga’. I find myself using this slang term sometimes. May Allah (swt) forgive me. We should try to replace it with brother, bro, akhi, or akh. For example, instead of saying ‘what up nigga’, we could say ‘what up akh’ or ‘what up bro’.

Imam Zaid only spoke about using the ‘N-word’, but I think many Desi Muslim youth also need to stop using words like kallu or chapta to describe other minorities.  We should respect everyone and most of the time when the terms ‘kallu’ or ‘chapta’ is used, its to negatively comment without the other minority understanding.


Warning: Foul language is used and jokes with drug references.

At 3:23 he asks the crowd “Where the muslims at?” and then says “Salamualykum” and “Eid Mubarak” to the one Muslim in the crowd.

May Allah guide him. Ameen!

Shout out to Azeem for posting this.

For those who doubt his Muslim’ness, see this video:
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Fat Joe, famous rapper from the Bronx, NYC, recently gave his salams in a song called “300″. Who cares? Well probably no one (but me). But if you did, you can listen to it here (warning contains music) :

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Walykumsalam wa Rahmatullah to you to Fat Joe.


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