Benazir Bhutto's daughter releases a Rap song

mercenary2k · Jan 6th, 2009, 09:57 AM

weird if u ask me but here it goes

BBC NEWS | South Asia | Daughter's rap tribute to Bhutto

The rap song Bakhtawar Bhutto posted on video-sharing website YouTube

The eldest daughter of Pakistan's assassinated former Prime Minister, Benazir Bhutto, has written a rap song expressing grief over her death.

The song by Bakhtawar Bhutto, 18, comes a year after the assassination and is entitled "I would take the pain away".

It pays tribute to her mother's "crazy courage" and describes her as "the epitome of benevolence".

It has been played regularly on state-run television and has been posted on the video-sharing website YouTube.

'Weeping'

"My mother was murdered. I don't even comprehend. Was it worth dying for? I'm walking through screened doors," Bakhtawar sings in English.

You had beauty and intelligence, everything you did was relevant

Bakhtawar Bhutto's lyrics in "I would take the pain away"

"No comfort or ease. I'm begging you please, God bless the deceased," she laments in the song.

Praising her mother's "beauty and intelligence", the song says that the "whole world is weeping" over the murder.

"Shot in the back of your ear, so young in 54th year, murdered with three kids left behind, a hopeless nation without you, you are in all their hearts," it says.

The teenager, a student at Edinburgh University, then repeats the chorus line "I would take the pain away".

A video to accompany the song shows footage and photographs of her smiling mother while election campaigning shortly before her death in Rawalpindi in December 2007 and of public grieving after her death.

Ms Bhutto was killed in a gun and bomb attack on her convoy - blamed on Islamic militants - as it travelled through the city's Liaquat Bagh park. She had just finished addressing an election rally.

Information Minister Sherry Rehman - who for several years was an aide to Ms Bhutto - told the Reuters news agency that Bakhtawar wrote the lyrics and music while studying in Edinburgh.

"It's a tribute of a grieving daughter to her iconic and loving mother," she said.

Ms Rehman said that while music was a hobby for Bakhtawar, she had no plan to pursue it as a career.

The song has had mixed reviews in the British press.

"While her dirge-like rap is unlikely to secure her a Grammy, the seemingly heartfelt tribute might win her some fans," The Independent newspaper says.

The Guardian says that she uses the song to "pour out her anguish".

Ms Bhutto's widower and Bakhtawar's father, Asif Ali Zardari, became president of Pakistan in September.

Their son, Bilawal, 20, studies at Oxford University in the UK and another daughter, Aseefa, 14, also studies abroad.

Spock · Jan 6th, 2009, 10:25 AM

I don't find it weird at all, self expression has many forms my friend.

Mirch · Jan 6th, 2009, 10:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Spock

I don't find it weird at all, self expression has many forms my friend.

Yeah what is weired about it ?
I guess Kira-a ka sipahee was expecting a Qawalli from her instead of rap song.

Lafanter · Jan 6th, 2009, 10:40 AM

not working for me .. any other links pls . .cant find it on YT aswell

wondergurl · Jan 6th, 2009, 10:51 AM

touching. her kids are so young, oldest just 20 and youngest only 14, sad.

Iconoclast · Jan 6th, 2009, 10:56 AM

SO few years from now we can expect rap songs at PPP rallies instead of speeches.

~MuNiYa~ · Jan 6th, 2009, 10:58 AM

That is odd but whatever helps her get past it

wondergurl · Jan 6th, 2009, 11:01 AM

cricketplaya · Jan 6th, 2009, 11:04 AM

hahahah LOL

hareem01 · Jan 6th, 2009, 11:14 AM

can't hear her lyrics clearly becoz of loud base of the music and electrified [not sure if it's called that] sound of her voice.

Spock · Jan 6th, 2009, 11:16 AM

^ Can you post the link please?

hareem01 · Jan 6th, 2009, 11:17 AM

^It's in the first post of this thread.

Niksik · Jan 6th, 2009, 11:23 AM

I heard it. I can only feel a daughters pain for her mother. Everyone has their way of expressing sorrow.

Mirch · Jan 6th, 2009, 11:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Iconoclast

SO few years from now we can expect rap songs at PPP rallies instead of speeches.

Nice idea rap speeches would be a big hit and a formula for success in election.

firenze · Jan 6th, 2009, 11:37 AM

I hope she will not be humiliated, killed, beheaded or name as non-muslim over this

DD · Jan 6th, 2009, 11:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Mirch

Nice idea rap speeches would be a big hit and a formula for success in election.

Yep, something like this

Qazi deta hai Azan
Huma dengey
Roti, kapra aur Makan

Maango, Maango, Maango
Jaago, Jaago, Jaago

Roti, Kapra aur Makaan

Mirch · Jan 6th, 2009, 11:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DD

Yep, something like this

Qazi deta hai Azan
Huma dengey
Roti, kapra aur Makan

Maango, Maango, Maango
Jaago, Jaago, Jaago

Roti, Kapra aur Makaan

imagine-ing this as a rap and

saieen · Jan 6th, 2009, 11:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DD

Yep, something like this

Qazi deta hai Azan
Huma dengey
Roti, kapra aur Makan

Maango, Maango, Maango
Jaago, Jaago, Jaago

Roti, Kapra aur Makaan

more like

Qazi shadian kerta hai
hum lerkiyan uthwain ge
imran sirf waday kerta hai
hum kar ke dikhain ge...

roti kapra aur makan kia hai?
hum to qafaan bhi free dilvain ge