[Artist] Big A

I was checking out Dj Lethal Skillz's profile on Facebook, and I noticed that he posted the following on Big-A's wall:

"Lookin forward to seein u soon in 961 fam, 1!"

So, I became curious to know who's that dude. I did some research, and I came to realizing that Big A is one of the most underrated artists in the arabic hip hop scene.


Big-A's real name is Ahmed (that's where the A come from), and he's a Lebanese Rapper from South Lebanon, but currently living in Detroit, USA.



According to his official website, he started his career back in 2006, and has finished his debut album "Conscious Gangsta" in 2008. You can find that album on his official website.

The next track is called "Te-Le-Le-Vision", featured with Omar Offendum, it's really awesome, check it out to know what i'm talking about, both of them killed it:

Big-A - Te-Le-Le-Vision (Feat. Omar Offendum):

(Click On The Picture To Buy This Album)

http://www.mcbiga.com
http://www.myspace.com/mcbiga


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[Artist] The Invincible Voice (I-Voice)

I-Voice stands for Invincible voice. The group consists of two Palestinians rappers living as refugees in Lebanon: Yassin aka Ray and Mohammad Turk aka T.N.T. I Voice started rapping in 2001. Ray a member of I Voice finished with Amir his first album that contains 10 tracks in 2006(ella mata volume 1). and works now with T.N.T. I-VOICE is today a revolutionary band that can not stop talking the truth.

At the moment, the group is working on a series of albums and are about to finish their second album (Ta7eyati). For I-Voice, rap is a diary which explains why they have auto-produced their work which allows them as well to be free . I-voice has also done a lot of concerts mainly in lebanon, while starting independently the group is now connected to a number of other hip hop crews.

They discovered a new style named trap (tarab rap)that consists of adding oriental instruments to the rap-style such as 3ood and tableh. The result is 100% arabic rap. Ray, founder of I Voice is now working with camps studio as teaching sound making, mixing and mastering. While Ray has been producing music since 2002, he offers his expertise to anyone who wants to get help in the music production field. I-voice have just built their home studio named TONG PRODUCTION (studio mokhayamat) TONG PRODUCTION: or al-Lesan production. Eventhough the studio is until now simply equipped, I voice works regularly in order to get it bigger, so that all the real underground MC’S will eventually get their tracks produced by: TONG PRODUCTION, I-VOICE,STUDIO MOKHAYYAMMAT

• www.myspace.com\theivoicee

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[Artist] WE7 (Wlad El 7ara)

We7 - A shortcut name of "Boys of the Hood" and is pronounced "weh" - is one of the leading groups in the Palestinian hip hop scene. Adi Krayem (22), Anan Qsem (23) and Alaa Bishara(21) formed the group in 2001, after deciding to share their writings together and create songs. They've been performing locally ever since. Anan and Alaa come from the city of Nazareth, located in the north of what is now called Israel. And Adi comes from Kana village – a small village near Nazareth.

In spite of having blue Israeli Id’s, “We7” consider them selves a Palestinian rap band , when asked why, Alaa answered “let’s say France conquered Israel tomorrow, will the Israelis suddenly become French? I don’t think so, and besides, Israel is even younger than my grandfather”. We7's lyrical content is a reflection of their lives as Palestinians inside the Israeli borders, and is very much connected to the Israeli – Palestinian conflict.

Their lyrics touch a large variety of issues, ranging from the political and social problems that they face as Palestinians, to deep intellectual philosophys about there lives as individuals, and of course it wont be Hip Hop without some ego tripping.”We7” have managed to maintain their deep strong messages and still be clear enough to hit mainstream. We7’s music is a special combination between cultures, it combines Eastern melodies and Western beats, with mixed cultural musical ideas and styles of singing, features of the leading eastern O’ud player “Alaa’ Azzam” and others, give their hard Hip Hop beats a new level of musical uniqueness. Anan – the band’s producer – described there productions as “a bit out of every street”.

Given its street respect, We7 took part in every project in the Palestinian hip hop scene, worth mentioning its leading part of the ArabRap.net CD in 2002, which sold over 10000 copies locally, and their leading part in the “Sling Shot Hip Hop Soundtrack CD” in 2008 which is now selling thousands of copies worldwide, and the movie has until now premiered in the US, Dubai, Lebanon, Egypt, Palestine and has one numerous festivals worldwide. We7 also took part in the “European Palestinian Hip Hop Tour 2008” and hundreds of other shows and events held all over Palestine, gaining the title “Visitors Favorites” in arabrap.net website with thousands of downloads.

“The Underground Studio” in Nazareth – We7’s home studio – is the home of Palestinian rappers and has been since 2003. Dam, Saz, El – 48 , Eyad Kassem , North Life , Scorpions, birds of darkness, Damar –along with We7 –are to be mentioned as a part of the “Under-Stood-Yo” record label. And the “Underground Studio” is now the place to visit when rap artist come to Palestine. Palestinian-American “Nizar” from the Philistines, Egyptian-Danish “Zaki”, Palestinian-Danish “Marwan” and Palestinian-English “Shadia Mansour” are a few of the international artists who have dropped by.

We7 have released their demo “Music to all my Peaple” produced in the Underground Studio in 2007, and has sold about 5000 copies in Palestine. The Underground Studio also produced a couple of songs for the “Dam – Mixtape” CD, and is currently producings “The Underground Studio – Mixtape” Cd which will include features of nearly all Palestinian rap artist. The Underground Studio Productions is beyond music. We7’s first Video clip entitled “Shu mfaker tu’ul?” – meaning “Got sumthin’ to say ? “ – is to be released soon with young Palestinian director “Sari Bisharat”. We7 are currently working on their first official international album "Sot El Samt" witch means "Voice of the Silence". And it is estimated to be released in spring 2009.

In The last couple of years, We7 are getting a noticeable increase in terms of international interest, since their first international live performance in Amsterdam in 2006. The show immediately gave them their second show in Amsterdam, a radio Feature in “NMO Radio” in Holland. And a feature show in Oslo. And uncountable International Media Coverage, such as: - Taking an important part in two University assessments, " Palestinian Rap : A new Intifada" by Raumene Rahatzad, a senior thesis paper presented in the Pitzer College USA, and "Academic Research on Palestinian rap" by Sharon Gonnen from the University of Tel-Aviv. - Taking part in the English "BBC – 1 extra - UK" documentary "hip hop in the holy land". - They are one of the most voted artists at the international website: www.naseeb.com, a Muslim Social Network website, with more than 350000 members. We7's international breakthrough is just getting started, and everyone is looking forward to hearing "Sot El Samt".

• Official Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/we7

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[Artist] Samm

Samer Zaki aka Samm, is A Jordanain rapper living in amman, who started rapping back in 2001, but then suddenly he left the scene for a short while then got back in 2007 to burned depth of hell with his hot hits.

In 2008, he met the Jordanian hip hop producer Damar, and they started working together. First they came out with a track called "Homom Ben3esha", which had a huge success on the Internet, leading them to have an interview on a local Television.

After that they made another hit, called "Ana Sa7", a Club Banger which helped Samm get Success on live shows, he stopped his live shows period and got back to studio to work on some new materials, and by the end of last year, he promised to bring the heat back by releasing his new single 3alam Aswad (which is produced by Damar too), and this track is one of the notable tracks on the Jordanian hip hop scene.

After that, "962 Street" asked him to join the group. And after he joined 962 Street, he worked on track called "Le'ajleke Gaza", and currently he's working on the new album of the group.
Lately, he was chosen among other 11 rappers from the Middle East out of 6,000 applications by Fredwreck, Qusai, and Shadia Mansour to represent Jordan in a Hip Hop talent show called "Beit El Hip Hop" on Wanasa TV.

Samm - 3alam Aswad (Black World):


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