Photo: Jackie Reem Salloum's Slingshot Hip Hop
Like Young Rebels before it, Slingshot Hip Hop illustrates how hip-hop appeals to the world's oppressed. For Palestinian acts like DAM, Palestinian Rapperz, and the most fierce Abeer, Palestine's First Lady of R&B, their fascination with hip-hop came naturally: Pioneers like 2Pac echoed their social frustrations and confirmed that their reality could be given a voice. "We saw our hood" is how one of Jackie Reem Salloum's subjects describes what he felt when he saw 2Pac's "Holla If Ya Hear Me" music video for the first time, and when they meet Chuck "Hip-Hop is our CNN" D, the boys of DAM practically flip, their eyes beaming as brightly as the bombs that fly overhead in Lyd, Israel. Ed Gonzalez
Like Young Rebels before it, Slingshot Hip Hop illustrates how hip-hop appeals to the world's oppressed. For Palestinian acts like DAM, Palestinian Rapperz, and the most fierce Abeer, Palestine's First Lady of R&B, their fascination with hip-hop came naturally: Pioneers like 2Pac echoed their social frustrations and confirmed that their reality could be given a voice. "We saw our hood" is how one of Jackie Reem Salloum's subjects describes what he felt when he saw 2Pac's "Holla If Ya Hear Me" music video for the first time, and when they meet Chuck "Hip-Hop is our CNN" D, the boys of DAM practically flip, their eyes beaming as brightly as the bombs that fly overhead in Lyd, Israel. Ed Gonzalez
