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in Detroit City and even before that through fundraisers when I lived in New York. But besides fundraisers we do many things to sustain ourselves, it is very difficult. Part of the job of the youth leaders this summer will be to raise the money for their own workshops.
I hear that a lot of the funding has been cut back recently in the US.Of course, with military funding increasing with all the funding that should be going to the people that is going into Lockheed and Martins pocket. I am not saying it is for the better, but ultimately it is forcing us to become more resourceful, it is forcing us to have to become sustainable.How did you start off mcing, writing your lyrics, how did you come to doing what you are doing today?Man, it's hard to say where I started!Five sentences.Five sentences alright I moved to the States in 88 when I didn't speak English.Where from?From occupied Palestine, it is also called Israel, and basically I |
moved not knowing any English.
When I learned English besides school, I learned a lot of English through just immersing myself in music. Listening to the lyrics and then copying down the lyrics of my favourite Hip Hop song and then spitting them back just really being surrounded by different kinds of music.
Did you ever try to rap in Hebrew?No, I didn't rap when I was speaking Hebrew, when I moved to the States I totally blacked out all my Hebrew. I thought about re-learning it, but that is not the focus at the moment. Music made me learn English. My best friend and me made little raps. We would just bug out after school and run the tape recorder and rhyme. She still has those tapes somewhere, we would just act stupid and it was a big joke or whatever. But I kept doing it and then later in life it became something that kind of got me through life.What would have been the next step? Writing your own lyrics diary style or?We wrote our lyrics back then, we would take other peoples rhymes and put our own lyrics in it. And then of course, any other type of writing, any other type of music, creation as well. What really got me passionate about it and really got me into Hip Hop was when I learned how to freestyle. |
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