9.6.04
Baghdad Freestyle
via This Modern World, comes an absolutely amazing site, Gunner Palace. From the site:
See the site, but most importantly, watch the clip of the soldier freestyle rapping. Ah-mazing.
The purpose of my visit was to embed myself with a unit for as long as they would have me. Surprisingly, or perhaps not, owing to the fact that I was briefly in the military and come from a military family, I found a unit that embraced my presence. The unit, 2/3 Field Artillery aka the "Gunner" Battalion was based in Uday Hussein's Azimiya Palace-sitting in the middle of Adhamiya, the most volatile area in Baghdad.
See the site, but most importantly, watch the clip of the soldier freestyle rapping. Ah-mazing.