"SHE MIGHT GET LOUD."
PIC INFO: Resolution at 2444x2444 -- Spotlight on the London-born, Sri Lanka-reared, art-school-educated hip-pop supernova, M.I.A. (b. Mathangi "Maya" Arulpragasam). 📸: Miguel Reveriego.
"Or rather, louder. Bigger. Richer. Because for all of M.I.A.'s twenty-first-century sound and global-nomad street cred, she's still not quite as famous as she wants to be. But now, with her long-awaited and wildly buzzed-about third album due out any minute, Earth may be about to go truly gaga for Maya."
-- "GQ" Magazine (Culture), "She Might Get Loud," by Gary Shteyngart, June 22, 2010
Source: www.gq.com/story/mia-profile.
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Former British rapper Abdel Bary, accused of heading a terror cell, is found dead in Spanish prison
By Associated Press 5:54am Jul 28, 2023
A former British rap artist who allegedly became a jihadist in Syria where he was accused of posting a photo of a victim's severed head has died in custody while awaiting a trial verdict in Spain, the Interior Minister said this morning.
Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary was found dead in a Spanish prison on Wednesday, the ministry said. The cause of death is yet to be confirmed. The former rap artist was detained at Puerto Ill prison in the southern Spanish city of El Puerto de Santamaria, The Associated Press has learned.
Abdel Bary was arrested in 2020 when he was accused of heading a jihadist terror cell and charged with illegal financing of terrorism. He faced up to 9 years in prison in a trial that concluded on July 14, and was awaiting a verdict.
Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary was found dead in a Spanish prison on Wednesday the ministry said. (Youtube)
A prison officer who maintained daily contact with Abdel Bary said that his body showed no signs of violence.
Abdel Bary had been under strict rules that included 20 hours a day of solitary confinement. He had not been a problem inmate and was not on any psychiatric treatment, said the officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to speak to the media.
Abdel Bary, 32, left London in 2013 to join an Al Qaeda faction and later ISIS militias in Syria. He made a name for himself on social media sites by showing himself clutching the severed head of one of his alleged victims.
Before joining Islamic militants in Syria, Abdel Bary performed as a rapper under the name Jinn.
He was the son of an Egyptian operative of al-Qaeda who was convicted for events related to the 1998 bombings at US embassies in Africa that killed 224 people. Abdel Bary stopped making music not long after his father's extradition to the US on terror charges.
Spanish police arrested Abdel Bary and two other men in April 2020, shortly after they crossed the Strait of Gibraltar on a skiff from Algeria.
He was accused of leading a jihadist terror cell formed by him and the two other men, dedicated to committing internet banking scams and trafficking in cryptocurrencies to "finance their terrorist activities".
Abdel Bary denied being a cell leader during the trial.
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DanimaL Delivers Raw Storytelling In "Robbery" Single
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DanimaL Delivers Raw Storytelling In "Robbery" Single
British rapper DanimaL hailing from Sheffield delivers raw storytelling in his new single “Robbery.” Although hypothetical, DanimaL creates an unfiltered, menacing tale about a robbery gone wrong. It appears this time around he’s met his match. Cinematic bass and arrangements intensify Dani
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