{"id":395,"date":"2008-06-27T14:28:23","date_gmt":"2008-06-27T19:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/?p=395"},"modified":"2015-01-07T14:07:25","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T18:07:25","slug":"8-mile-on-the-nile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/?p=395","title":{"rendered":"8 Mile on the Nile"},"content":{"rendered":"

In my sha3bi searches last night I came across all kinds of odd & awesome stuff. And I don’t say ‘odd’ as an uninformed outsider (though I am one, relatively speaking), but b\/c some of the cha3bi vids one finds are truly bizarre mashups of footage ranging from what looks like a Francophone African music video<\/a> (Reunion<\/a>? really?) to clips from Tom&Jerry —<\/p>\n

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But one of the best things I came across is a video of a more traditional — indeed, acoustic — mulid street performance than the soundsystem-propelled events portrayed in Jennifer Peterson’s article<\/a>. According to the uploader, this depicts “men whoop[ing] it up on the streets of Al Hussein [Cairo]” in a post-mulid mood. One can certainly see connections to the recent\/remix version of mulid\/inshad\/sha3bi, though one also gets to see\/hear the improvised poetry a bit more, which inspires one commenter to call it “8 Mile on the Nile ;)” — watch the MC with the frame drum step up around 1:12:<\/p>\n

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The other thing I find uncanny about this clip — given the way that “ghettotech” has emerged in “nu-world” discourse — is how the call-response chants from 0:47 to 1:07 sound pretty much exactly like several ghetto-tech\/-house\/juke tracks. I don’t know what they’re saying (sounds like “yeah yeah”), but it would mix very well with any number of tracks that anchor themselves with a repeated “uh oh!” or “hold up!”
\n<\/param><\/param><\/embed>Hold up wait a minute – DJ Chip<\/a><\/object><\/p>\n

I know I’ve used it before, but, that said, I can’t resist ending with this gif —<\/p>\n

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