Cultural Globalization. I'll be damned!: there is this Saudi hip hop-per who just surfaced on mbc around two-three months ago called Qusai. so anyways, i for one have never heard of him in my life neither here nor in the US (he mostly sings in English), neither anybody that i know actually. but it's as if mbc has just fallen in love with him and they are giving him his own talent show to help "discover" more young men like him with hip hop ambitions. you know, so they could "infiltrate" US culture and get to the hearts and minds of the american people and help "polish" the arab image there. okay i mean i'm a cultural studies major and i respect and am aware of the noble "nationalist" outcomes and potentials such a cultural hybridity (whether intentional or not) could have. after all pidgin hip hop could be implemented the same way pidgin english was used by the greatest thinkers and authors the world ever know. Achebe makes a nice example. but i just have a feeling that this project is not about that:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Re3NepWHaO8
I love Outlandish though. i think they are really committed to "come back at" the West as it perceives those who don't always "fit in" and fail to be Westernly human:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3P12aqVeZkQ