'Smashing Hits' - Baghdad rap group (on CNN)
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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
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/12/05/iraq.rappers/index.html?hpt=C2