Mani
21 Sep 2004, 12:27 AM
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TEHRAN (Reuters) - Far from its roots in disfranchised U.S. ghettos, rap music is proving a big hit as a platform for social criticism in the Islamic Republic.
But Shahkar Binesh-Pajouh (http://www.shahkar.com/), Iran's bow-tie wearing dapper rapper would look somewhat out of the place in the Bronx.
Chart-topping Binesh-Pajouh, who targets unemployment, poverty and westernized Iranian girls in his new album (http://www.eworldrecords.com/lib/eworldrecords/shahkareskenas.ram), is a lecturer with a doctorate in urban planning whose poetry translations will hit the shelves soon.
"I chose rap because I can say many things with it, not because I live like a rapper," said Binesh-Pajouh in his affluent north Tehran apartment. More... (http://www.reuters.com/printerFriendlyPopup.jhtml?type=musicNews&storyID=6169280)
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Far from its roots in disfranchised U.S. ghettos, rap music is proving a big hit as a platform for social criticism in the Islamic Republic.
But Shahkar Binesh-Pajouh (http://www.shahkar.com/), Iran's bow-tie wearing dapper rapper would look somewhat out of the place in the Bronx.
Chart-topping Binesh-Pajouh, who targets unemployment, poverty and westernized Iranian girls in his new album (http://www.eworldrecords.com/lib/eworldrecords/shahkareskenas.ram), is a lecturer with a doctorate in urban planning whose poetry translations will hit the shelves soon.
"I chose rap because I can say many things with it, not because I live like a rapper," said Binesh-Pajouh in his affluent north Tehran apartment. More... (http://www.reuters.com/printerFriendlyPopup.jhtml?type=musicNews&storyID=6169280)