Busta Rhymes Defends "Arab Money" Song; Denies Disrespect
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When I first heard of Busta Rhymes having a new song called "Arab Money" I figured something like this would eventually happen. Mr. Rhymes has been accused of racism & disrespect for the new song, and he's speaking out in defense of the track.
Busta says the song the song "preaches admiration":http://uk.news.yahoo.com/wenn/20081006/ten-busta-rhymes-defends-arab-money-titl-c60bd6d.html for middle eastern culture more than anything.
"Sometimes, people like to twist things. We ain't mockin' the culture. We ain't tryin' to be disrespectful. Ain't no racism going on right here.
"If you listen to the song, you see that we are actually acknowledging the fact that the Arabian culture, a middle East culture is one of the few cultures, that value passing down hard work riches that's been built amongst the family.
"It would be nice if a lot of other cultures did the same thing. Feel me? So, I would like for it to be like that in my culture where we could build things to the point where we got so much that we don't need to rely on other cultures to contribute majorly in a financial way, or in whatever other way, to societies, communities or whatever governments we might live in. So, we are actually biggin' up the culture. At the end of the day, I want to be like that. I think a lot of us want to be like that."
Mollifire posted a video of Rhymes introducing his "Arab Money" dance a few days ago and it's really funny. From this alone you can tell his intentions were to create something fun and catchy for the clubs.
Comments (5)
I witnessed that dance live at The Knitting Factory. the crowd was buzzin off that!
Busta Rhymes is a world class fool!
Why are people so fucking sensitive? Arab Money? That's racist? That's disrespectful? Those shieks and shit HAVE MONEY!
Those fuckers build underwater hotels...IN THE DESERT!
Wait.
Yeah.
Let that marinate for a minute.
Exactly!
lol seriously.
Troypowers are fucking serious... Why are people so fucking sensitive because he is calling us Ay-rabs thats like saying the N word and he is stereotyping us.
Do u guys want to know why the song is offensive, number one it is misrepresenting a people, 2 groups of people to be exact, Arabs and Muslims. As u all might not know, not all Arabs are Muslim and not all Muslims are Arabs. In his first version of the song he calls Arabs, Ayrabs…Ayrab is a derogatory term which I personally as an ARAB find offensive, a Christian Arab would find this term derogatory as well. And by reciting the Quran and then saying Arab money he is stereotyping that all Muslims are Arabs and they are not… Indians, Iranians, Turks, Afghanistanis are not Arabs… there are MUSLIMS all over the world but not Arabs… there are even Chinese Muslims, so what in the name of God does Arab money have to do with Islam and the Quran??
We as MUSLIMS do use the words of the Quran in songs but RELIGIOUS songs, they are called anasheeds such as this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOj3aDfuR_o
by Sami Yusuf who is not an ARAB but a Muslim who is from Pakistan. I dont think this song promotes drinking, adultery, gambling, promiscuous activity…I dont think this song will be played at any club anytime soon…where girls grind their asses on guys which really in Islam and Christianity adultery is a sin but we MUSLIMS still follow these rules and try our best to refrain from sinning.
Or this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQraTe-jSz4
its my Yusuf Islam formerly known as Cat Stevens…
orrrrrrrr http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dtSRvyfxc4&feature=related by Zain also another Pakistani Muslim. its called Allah knows
this is what Islam represents U CANT TAKE IT WITH U http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dtSRvyfxc4&feature=related so u should understand why we would get offended and I think u have no right to tell us to lighten up. We shouldnt have to explain why we get offended when u talk about our religion or make fun of our people. Im an Arab Muslim born and raised in the U.S Im fairly open minded but when it comes to religion u people are taking it too far. We have a right to our privacy, and u can say what u want but not offending others ur discriminating people. And frankly Im sick of this whole anti Islam thing and anti Arab thing. Arabs are Semites go make a song about Jews and lets see if they wont get offended and if they dont call u anti Semitic. Go make a video about blacks and call them the N word and see if u wont have a major law suit on ur head. Ok so dont tell us what we can and cant feel. the video is offensive one he is not Arab 2 he is misrepresenting Arabs and Muslims.
alright so shut the fuck up and stop stereotyping. and for ur 411 Im LEBANESE and my country doesnt have a desert so stop fucking stereotyping. its only racism when someone offends u and ur people right
by the way check out this song its called THE REAL ARAB MONEY its in response to the racist song Busta made ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0E3BhHkblE
its by an ARAB not an Ay-rab