Busta Rhymes’s Arab Money – Anyone else find this slightly racist?

  • Posted by Gray
  • February 11, 2009

I mean, what’s up with the kafiya’s, the fake traditional “hands up and shaking” dance, the gambling, etc.? wtf

Yes, Busta Rhymes' Arab Money is totally racist

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Davidblake
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February 12, 2009 at 7:16 am

Totally unrelated but did I just miss your post about Pendulum playing hPortland? or have we managed to not cover that some how?

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Sasha
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February 12, 2009 at 8:29 pm

WHAT!? Where and when. I am so there.

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Nory
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February 16, 2009 at 10:06 pm

Busta ain’t no racist…plus the bass line is phat as fuck…heard a guy(an arab actually) on npr today talking about how the og mix was met with resistance by the arab community because the “arab” sample is just gibberish…so in the remix the sample is a quote from the Koran and Busta even spits some Arabic…dude on npr said the Arab community is loving the remix and they’re bumping it all over in Arab nations…plus dude says Busta practices Islam…clearly not in it’s strictest form…but…

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an arab
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April 4, 2009 at 1:31 am

The remixed Arabic part says “in the name of God, the most gracious the most merciful. All praise be to God”
It is a quote from the opening lines of the Quraan and most Muslims consider it Blasphemous.

I like the song, I like the fact that they actually put Arabic lines in the remix rather than gibberish. But they shouldn’t have gone with such a sacred verse.