Allah in the House: Blak Madeen Feature
Posted on November 11, 2009 by Chris Faraone
“Muslim hip-hop is not like Christian rock,” says Yusuf, the Merrimack Valley half of the Allah-inspired Boston-Lowell tag team Blak Madeen. “Our music is relevant to society. It’s like the difference between the two religions. Ours is part of everyday life, not just something that we think about once a week.”
Here’s the other difference between Muslim rap and Christian rock: the former is not shamelessly vapid. More hip-hop legends than not have kicked wisdom rooted in divine teachings — from Rakim Allah and Bronx rhyme architect K(nowledge) R(eigns) S(upreme)–One to the Wu-Tang Clan, whose members have guided cats from Brooklyn to Berlin to internalize the Twelve Jewels of Islam. If you’ve ever sung along to Gang Starr, Paris, Nas, Q-Tip, Mos Def, Jurassic 5, or virtually any other exalted rhyme act, chances are you’ve praised-due without even knowing.
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how can you judge that all Christians “think about their religion once a week”… wow
that statement speaks for itself, pure ignorance
See this is that bullshit. Why team a “consummate MC” with a dude who “raps fro a hobby?” Aljabra is hands down one of Boston’s best talents as a writer AND spitter. It makes me sick to see his potential squandered like this.
And treating this like a Muslim version of Christian rap is stupid too. Rap is Islamic by default. The whole culture is rooted in Islamic ways and to keep bringing up bacon eating and etc is just to marginalize the group.