Libyan Rapper Records Music Video In The Middle Of A Warzone

posted on: Apr 26, 2015

A Libyan rapper known as “Volcano” has released an expensive-looking video featuring a backdrop of militants and flaming rubble in the city of Benghazi.

The song, “C5,” describes the Libyan civil war’s effect on the ancient city, which has found itself at the epicenter of the fighting. In the nearly seven-minute video, he wears gold chains and several Western-style outfits — including hoodies and crisp white sneakers — while striking hip-hop poses in parts of the city that have clearly suffered from the conflict.

He also raps his support for Gen. Khalifa Haftar, the military leader of the “Libya Dignity” campaign against the various armed Islamist groups that control about half the country. In the background, men in battle fatigues pose with machine guns, ostensibly members of Haftar’s fractured Libyan National Army. (RELATED: Gen. Haftar’s Libyan National Army Is Waging War Against ISIS)

In one verse, he mocks an Islamist recruiting slogan, saying, “Come to jihad! Come to rottenness!” In Arabic, it rhymes neatly: “Hayy ala-l-jihaad! Hayy ala-l-fasaad!”

Source: dailycaller.com