'Smashing Hits' - Baghdad rap group (on CNN)

karlophone

pretty amazing to see this despite the massive obstacles to performing western music there. Actually, unlike Iran (for example) theres no specific cultural crackdown keeping these sort of things down - but there is a lot of fear of being made an example of by any number of nasty folks, just for doing something nontraditional and western. these guys got a lot of balls. musically not groundbreaking, (from the little i can hear in the video) but the fact they are trying is big.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/12/05/iraq.rappers/index.html?hpt=C2