Iran's Urban Planning Rapper

Shahkar Binesh-Pajouh has a doctorate in urban planning and raps about the problems of poverty.

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September 4, 2004, 1:00 PM PDT

"A smartly dressed singer is winning fans and annoying conservatives in Iran with music far from its roots in US ghettoes...

"I chose rap because I can say many things with it, not because I live like a rapper," said Binesh-Pajouh in his affluent north Tehran apartment... He said it took four years for the Culture Ministry to approve a rap album and it did so only after he deleted six songs from his original 10."

Thanks to Laura Kranz

FULL STORY: Dapper rapper stirs Iran

Friday, September 3, 2004 in Alliance For Redesigning Government

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