Usually, I don’t bring my work life to the AS – but this economic crisis is really effin stuff up. Suffice it to say, things just went a little pearshaped for me and I’m not in the mood to write a music video review. (Ed. note: no, I did not get fired) However, while I was driving to work last night to print out some documents, I stumbled upon a little turd of a track by one Mr. Busta Rhymes. Am I the only one who hasn’t heard Busta’s new joint Arab Money?
I can’t even begin to tell you how offended I am by this – both from a musical and cultural perspective – and I’m not even Muslim. I can’t seem to find an ‘official’ video, so this YouTube ‘video remix’ will have to do. Seriously, autotuned Arabic? (it’s not actually Arabic either btw) As if my day wasn’t bad enough, I have to deal with this shit.
The dance instruction video is a bit apologetic and tries to explain it all away, but what the fuck? How do you even begin to reconcile this without going all Van Gogh? I’m sorry Busta, but if I am offended – something is wrong. Am I being overly sensitive? Is this not a big deal so much as a poorly conceived song? Either way, you need to get your act together Mr. Rhymes, because this is not acceptable.
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