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― shookout (shookout), Sunday, 5 June 2005 14:55 (twenty years ago)

Enough of this already. AP delivered the story to every newspaper in the world a week or two ago, and months before that, someone else did the same thing. Now it's a certified cliche of 2005: Hip-Hop from the Baghdad Patrol, keepin' it real, recorded in the battlezone between patrols, with studio equipment laboriously shipped from home.

Is there anyone who doesn't make hip-hop CDs? Where's the Bagram Boys Hip-Hop? The Special Forces rappers? The Gitmo Interrogators. The military boyz sneaking hip-hop out of the stockade. Desecrated Koran Blues. The Failing Recruiter Raps. The Broken National Guardz. The Stop Loss Gangstas. The IED Maimd. The Veteranz Hospital Posse. The I See China, I See Franz, I See Saddam's Underpants.

Don't forget the Hajis, they must be doing it, too. The Front Door Beat Down. The Collateral Damajs. The Mistakenly Shot Up. And The Insurjenz.

― Harry Klam, Sunday, 5 June 2005 15:23 (twenty years ago)

Klam up!

I hadn't heard this story. I wonder if the tracks are any good?

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Sunday, 5 June 2005 16:32 (twenty years ago)

Then wake up. The tracks are easy right up there with the CDs from the bands in Momapalooza. Maybe even superior to Wilfred Owen's hip hop war poem, "Dulce Et Decorum Est," and raps of Siegfried Sassoon. Certainly rivals "The Green Fields of France."

― Harry Klam, Sunday, 5 June 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

The big labels and distributors don't seem to get it yet. "Live From Iraq" is available on the Web (4th25.com), but you won't find it in most record stores.

Yes, but a music writer for a general interest publication does!!!! OH!!!!

― Cool Hand Luuke (ex machina), Sunday, 5 June 2005 18:42 (twenty years ago)

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