Amazon Bestselling Author and Writer Brother Dash
Message to a Muslim Artist: The Five W’s +1 by Brother Dash Singer. Poet. Rapper. Dancer. Sculptor. Photographer. Painter. Cartoonist. Comedian. Writer. Artist. Entertainer. Muslim. Black. Arab. Pakistani. Latina. Revolutionary. Pacifist. Feminist. Human. We all have descriptors. We label who we are, what we do, where we are from and what we believe. The fact that we use these descriptors means that they are significant to us. They inform our Read More …
It’s okay to embrace your reality. You are still an artist even if you never actually make a living from your art. In fact one could argue that your art may be better for it. Read More …
You see Michael was the first artist that made White people want to actually BE a Black man and not simply admire his talent. Sure you had the great Nat King Cole, Ray Charles, James Brown, Stevie Wonder and a host of other Motown greats. Yes you had Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, the likes of Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Bill Cosby and even the social behemoths Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm “El Hajj Malik Al-Shabazz” X. But none of them made Non-Black people want to BE this Black man from the humble streets of Gary, Indiana. None of them had Russian Women, Pakistani Men, Japanese teenagers AND straight thugged out Brownsville, Brooklyn Project Black brothers pretending to be him in the mirror. I bet even Ronald Reagan tried to moonwalk at least once. Read More …
Muslim Hip-Hop can flourish AND be a leader in Hip-Hop itself by “changing the game”. And changing the game doesn’t mean simply good intentions and good lyrics (that’s an important beginning of course). It means you change the game by taking the principles of Islam that are ALREADY PRESENT ANYWAY for our daily lives and apply them to your art form. Read More …