![BIG DREAMS GANGSTA; lana del rey goes hip-hop
spender (smiler feat. lana del rey) // dirt off your shoulder/born to die (lana del rey vs. jay-z) // blue jeans [smims&belle remix] (lana del rey vs. azealia banks) // million dollar gold digger (lana del rey vs. kanye west) // lucky struggle (lana del rey vs. the notorious b.i.g.) // video game over (lana del rey vs. drake) // if i ruled the diet mountain dew (lana del rey vs. nas and lauryn hill) // ridin [in studio preview] (the kickdrums feat. a$ap rocky and lana del rey)
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I’m pretty indifferent to Lana del Rey, but this is an interesting compilation of tracks.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4i8j06Nv41r22drmo1_500.png)
Link: ARTicle : Hip hop and the Arab uprisings
Ever since “Arab Spring” became the dominant shorthand ↑for the revolutionary uprisings ↑ that began in December 2010, writers have been taking issue with the term. Rami Khouri considers the phrase ↑dehumanizing and Orientalist ↑ because it downplays the agency, initiative, and courage of people fighting for dignity against brutal, authoritarian regimes. Seasons just happen, but people make revolutions happen.
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The Arab uprisings have changed Arabic hip-hop by greatly raising the profile of Arab rappers across the world and spurring intensive collaboration among them. As the producer Excentrik told Aisha Fukushima ↑ , “Yeah, there’s an Arab hip-hop scene, but it’s a global scene, it’s not like a localized scene…it’s random because it’s so big and so spread apart.”
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This is interesting! Putting here so I can remember to read the whole thing and check out the people mentioned later.
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