From Syria to Paris, with a Refugees of Rap
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PARIS: Staccato lyrics might be no compare for Bashar Al Assad’s troops firepower though dual brothers who fled to Paris from Syria are now performing as ‘Refugees of Rap’ – and are anticipating it to be a liberating experience.
Having grown adult strictly stateless in a Palestinian interloper stay in Syria, Yaser and Mohamed Jamous swat in Arabic about a fight they have fled and their new life in France. “We chose a name since for us, swat represents a nation where we can contend what we think,” Mohamed, 28, said. “And we’re seeking haven there.”
Over a pulsation beat, honest strain consistent high piano keys and low violin tones, a brothers “spit” or speak, a carol in unison: “We have to arise up, stop dreaming. The time for overpower is prolonged gone, swept divided by words.”
The lyrics are from their 2011 strain The Age of Silence, one of a final they sung before journey Syria around Lebanon. Performing their hip-hop during a Paris village centre, a brothers pronounced a strain had been a “first time we dared pronounce adult plainly opposite a (Assad) regime,” notwithstanding a risk in doing so. “One word, and we got 20 years (in prison) or death. Here, we wanted to contend that a time for overpower is over.”
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The twin were innate and lifted in a Yarmuk stay for Palestinian refugees on a hinterland of Damascus, that was once home to 160,000 people – including Syrians – though has been scorched by fighting. Their grandfather fled to Syria from Haifa in 1948, when a state of Israel was created. Yaser and Mohamed left Syria in early 2013 as fighting for control of a stay intensified. The rest of their family also fled and is in Sweden.
The brothers combined Refugees of Rap in 2007 with dual friends, an Algerian and a Syrian, and were one of a initial such groups to emerge out of Syria. It now comprises usually a dual of them a Syrian member refused to leave and a Algerian went to Germany.
Released in 2010, their initial manuscript recounts vital in a packed camp, as they disciple for Palestine. Then, after 2011, a rebel supposing inspiration.
They penned The Age of Silence, Haram that is about a horrors of a war, Aysheen definition “We Live”, and Corruption in a Country. They had finished 8 marks for a second manuscript when they began receiving different threats on amicable media.
“We perceived dual or 3 messages on Facebook,” Yaser, 29, shared. “The messages pronounced ‘We know you’re scheming an manuscript and if we don’t stop… it’s over for you. We’re going to destroy your studio, we’re going to stop you. We’re going to kill you’. ”
It was not a usually jump they faced. During fighting in Yarmuk in 2012, a group’s recording studio was broken in bombings. Their younger hermit was thereafter jailed for 40 days for an different reason. “When he was released, he was in a terrible state,” removed Mohamed, who now works in a hotel. “He’d been tortured.”
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Shortly afterwards, they motionless to leave Syria. They were postulated interloper standing in France, with a discuss “nationality undetermined, Palestinian origin” a few months later. “When we got here, there was no housing, no aid,” Yaser said. “You had to wait for months to get set up, so we chose to book some unison dates and get to work.”
They toured in Denmark, Sweden and France, where they finished The Age of Silence and expelled a manuscript in 2014. “In Syria, people know (Arabic),” Yaser said. “That’s what we skip here.”
The brothers work on their denunciation skills by listening to French rappers. But on stage, they get around by reading translated lyrics and thereafter heading a assembly in chants of a Arabic carol before any track.
For their arriving third album, a organisation will “tell a story of a time here in France, a exile,” pronounced Yaser, who now works in a commemoration shop.
But they have not lost Syria. They have small wish of returning though “in exile, a destiny is never clear,” pronounced Yaser.
“We are exiles everywhere though we’re not from nowhere,” combined Mohamed. “We are unapproachable to be Palestinian since it’s a history, and in Syria, we were done to feel like we were Palestinians. But we also grew adult feeling Syrian since we were lifted there. Now, we feel Parisian.”
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