Palestinian Rap Group DAM

Palestinian Rap Group DAM Use Hip-Hop to Convey the Frustrations, Hopes of a Dispossessed People

We turn now to three young Palestinians who use hip-hop to tell their story of the Nakba and what it means to be a Palestinian growing up inside Israel. DAM, or Da Arabian MCs, is the first group of Palestinian rappers and was formed in the late 1990s. All three members were born and grew up in the slums of Lod or Al-Lyd, a mixed town of Arabs and Jews twelve miles from Jerusalem. [includes rush transcript]

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News & Politics

Tags:

• nakba
• israel
• palestine
• dam
• rap
• hip
• hop
• democracy
• now

[IWantDemocracyNow]

ooh,  this guy is cute!!!!

[aliet07]

FREE Palestine!!!!

[lookslikerain2000]

Dam is awesome. Meen Erhabi?? we all know who is the real erhabi.

Viva Palestina

[maskerad6]

@lebanesesteez lol

[lebanesesteez]

@maskerad6 ya thats what I thought too, now im confused

[akbar009]

Dam means Eternity in ararabic and blood in hebrew .

[maskerad6]

dam is blood in aribic

[MrRolaCosta]

this man is one of the most hypocritical man I've ever seen, he use to hang out with us Israelis Jews, we used to love and praised him, he grew performing to Israeli audience and Israeli rapper Subliminal tough him how to rap when he was a child, Subliminal opened the door for him, and when the political status between arabs and jews become worst and he got famious, he started to preach against us in every way, he started to claim he's not an Israeli, although he live in Lod, this is in Israel.

[TheReaLaydieX]

DAM,

Hello. My name is Laydie X. i am a rapper from East Oakland, California, USA. I learned about what's going on in Palestine, and about this group, and how they started rapping out there, and I think that is amazing. You guys reallly inspired me. I've been looking everywhere, trying to find a way to contact this group, but they don't show up much. ... at least not where i can contact them. If anyone that knows a way to contact this group reads this comment, PLEASE contact me on my channel.

[FoziaAbdi]

@MonaAndYasmin ;) Lol thanks i'll take that as a compliment

Palestine for life, east africa's got your back

[MonaAndYasmin]

@FoziaAbdi because your so typically Somali!! it's not a bad thing! i love it :D