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\n\t\t\t<em>Text Messages<\/em> is the first multi-genre collection by Montreal-based Iraqi hip-hop artist, activist, and professor Yassin \u201cNarcy\u201d Alsalman.<\/p>
\n\t\t\t<p>Composed entirely on a smartphone during air travel and married to artwork from comrades, Narcy\u2019s writing speaks of the existential crises experienced by diasporic children of war before and during imperialism in the age of the Internet. Narcy\u2019s verses span the space between hip-hop and manifesto, portraying a crumbling, end-stage capitalist society, visions for a new reality, and the myth of multiculturalism in post-9\/11 North America. The wordsmith hollows and transmogrifies the grotesque excess of the West by juxtaposing McLife with images of death, destruction, and trauma in the East.<\/p>
\n\t\t\t<p>From the depths of apathetic consumerism arises a voice of spiritual self-realization that explodes the misrepresented, mythical monolith of Islam in the West and with the rubble builds healing through intelligent resistance and radical love.<\/p>
\n\t\t\t<p>\u201cYoung boys and girls trapped in Walmarts\u2014
\n\t\t\tour consumer interim camps.
\n\t\t\tA family-friendly, discounted freedom.
\n\t\t\tYou don\u2019t see what the Internet can\u2019t.<\/p>
\n\t\t\t<p>Not our land or home.
\n\t\t\tNot your mans or holmes.
\n\t\t\tNot your towers or domes.
\n\t\t\tNot your power or drones.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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