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Seth Cohen PR recently sent me an e-mail entitled “Hip-Hop in Iraq” that I clicked on with interest. Generally I’m all in favor of Americans learning more about the cultural scenes in countries we’ve bombed the shit out of. Actually, I’m in favor of us learning about them before we bomb the shit out of them, but to paraphrase Donald Rumsfeld, you go to hell with the foreign policy you have, not the one you wish you had.
By the way, a quick google of “Iraqi hip-hop” brought me links related to Euphrates, an Iraqi group currently based in Montreal, Timz, an Iraqi-American rapper, and an Iraqi’s blog that mentions hip-hop on the soundtrack of the ‘Voices of Iraq’ documentary. Not a lot of info on the Web. That’s a real shame: I worry a lot more about homegrown artists who might want to get out of a war zone than well-fed ones wanting to get in.
