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UK Rapper Celebrates Terror Bomb Making
'With a title like "All Is War (The Benefits of G-Had)" and a song about a suicide bomber, a new album by British Muslim rapper Aki Nawaz has raised eyebrows before its release, even at his own record label.The Pakistan-born rapper's group Fun-Da-Mental were set to put the new disc on sale July 17, 10 days after the first anniversary of the London bombings. But its words and themes -- another predicting US decline at the hands of Muslims -- caused two directors at Nation Records to threaten to quit if "All Is War" hit the shops. "I know what I'm doing, everything I did was intentional," a determined Nawaz told AFP. The release was held off, but Nation now says the album will come out online on August 7, then go on sale in stores on either August 14 or 21. Nawaz named the two who threatened to resign as Andrew Heath and Martin Mills, silent partners at Nation. A spokesperson for Mills's separate record label, Beggars Banquet, however said they would make no comment "at all" on the matter. For a group that has not tasted mainstream success, Fun-Da-Mental's new album has generated plenty of media coverage. On the track list are titles like "I Reject", "Electro G-Had" and "Cookbook DIY", the last the voice of a suicide bomber that -- given the timing -- brings to mind the four, home-grown bombers who killed 56 people and wounded about 700 more in last July's attacks on the London transport network. "Elements everyday chemicals at my reach; Household bleach to extract the potassium; Chlorate boiling on a hotplate with hate; recipe for disaster plastic bomb blaster... I'm strapped up cross my chest bomb belt attached; deeply satisfied with the plan I hatched." In a twist, the ambiguous rap ends by referring to a government-paid scientist with a "private room in the White House suite". Another song, "786 All is War", predicts the downfall of the United States at the hands of its citizens who call in Muslims to liberate the country. One track compares the speeches of Latin American revolutionary Che Guevara and Osama bin Laden, head of the Al-Qaeda terror network, attempting to show the two shared a similar drive to resist imperialism... Posted by: Anginens Threreng8133 2006-07-22 |
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