The Tossers in the Orange T-shirts.

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I was Wired at The Al-Ansaar Souk during the long Christmas weekend thingy. By that I mean .. I got a new show on the Al-Ansaar radio station called “Wired” :) Even MJ got a special Feature showcasing his specialty–> Video Games :)

Check it out here… http://wiredislam.blogspot.com and let me know what you think :)

Got a gig as an MC for the entertainment sections at the souk itself as well, my first time so was a bit nervous. Anyhow I was showcasing the New “Durban’s First Islamic boy Band” Waahid… A website will be up soon to showcase their stuff… Brilliant. It’s sort of Zikr with a modern touch of beatboxing and voice rhythms in the back. really really awesome. anyway more about that later.They wanted us to wear these horrid Bright Orange T-shirts withthe cliche’d tag of “crew” at the back and some half-baked excuse of a souk logo on the front. Ewwww. so much for attracting the youth, any MC wearing that crap would be ridiculed, as we probably were the first time we wore them due to sheer nervousness and not really knowing any better than to chellengethe authority figures who shoved them on us.

Next year I’m freakin desiging the T-shirts. maybe even get matching scarves for the girls… taht would be a cool idea, eh?

MJ’s segments were the coolest, he did a skit of weakest link in which he totally ripped off the dumbest contestants ever… for example… “Name one of the Khulafaa-e-Rashedeen.” “Umm… what’s that?” “One of the four Caliphs after the Prophet Muhammad.” ” ummm.. Bilal?” “Please don’t embarass your parents in the audience who paid so much money for you to go to an Islamic School.” LOL … or the one guy who couldn’t get “birds of a feather flock together” got told to “Flock off.”

As for the weakest link staples… MJ’s version had “Whose brain isn’t halaal certified?” “Who’s a few chips short of a Kiki’s meal?” and some other killer ones :P apart from that he also co-hosted a show with arm-wrestling… that was probably the most I ever laughed.. I’m sure he’ll showcase it on his blog :P

So I waschilling at the beach and getting my ass beat on the arm-wrestling table… serves me right to challenge the boys from overport and chatsworth who live at the gym… ouch. The guy’s forearm was bigger than his thighs…

Survival skills kicked in though and I very intelligently didnt opt for a re-match… We also got sponsored some really cool Islamic T-shirts in place of the hideous orange things all for the price of mentioning the boys on stage :) Marketing… all Marketing :) We even got free chow for mentioning Cafe Medina on stage :P Hey, no advertising’s for free eh?
Latest Controversy… Waahid, after performing for 4 days straight and selling all of their 100 limited edition CD’s, were banned from playing at the souk from yesterday night because some Dumbass who absolutely loves the stage says that what they are singing (dua’s, etc.) can only be sung in a certain way and the way they’re doing it… with beatboxing and singing in the background is not allowed… Haraam! *sigh* I wish these people would get a brain. If Waahid wasn’t on stage the youth would be nowhere near the stage. Unfortunatley people are too conservative here, too narrow-minded and would rather have their kids listening to “Smack That” instead of really really cool sounding Zikr, the kind you wouldn’t mind blasting through mint road on a saturday night. Word. it is that good :)

That’s it… will update more later.

Wasalaam.

M.

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