by Jonathan “Madd Cold” Azaziah

On this day one year ago, the brutal Nigerian army unleashed complete and utter hell on the Husseiniyah Baqiyatullah in Zaria, home to Sheikh Ibrahim Yaqoub al-Zakzaky and the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN). Hundreds (possibly thousands) of Shi’a Muslims were murdered in the barbaric massacre, hundreds more were disappeared, at least 50 young women were kidnapped and the Sheikh himself, along with his wife, were thrown into prison on baseless charges. The American regime, the usurping Zionist entity and Saudi Arabia all had hands in the nightmarish crime. And to this very day, in spite of the Anti-Zionist, Anti-Imperialist identity of the IMN and the stature of Sheikh Zakzaky as Africa’s most formidable revolutionary and the world’s most prolific disseminator of the Deen on Earth–he’s brought between 5-10 million humans to Shi’a Islam in the last 37 years–“Palestine Solidarity Movement” activists and “The Ummah” at large have forgotten that ALLAH (SWT) gifted them with tongues.

To break this deafening and despicable quiet, I present to you “Silence On The Sheikh”, the final single off my upcoming album “Eternally Husseini”, entirely produced by beat-making genius Iron Galaxy. This joint is not only meant to raise awareness for Sheikh Zakzaky and the Zaria Massacre, but knock in speakers across the globe as an anthem for Islamic unity. I am joined on the track by Irish Shi’a Revert Yusuf Abdul-Mateen (who spits first), African-American Mouride Sufi-Sunni Rafiqi Green (who spits second and provides angelic vocals on the hook) and Afghani Ahmadi Khanverse (who spits third). Each one of these gentlemen, who I consider dear brothers and family, shine like the Imam Hussein (A.S.) shrine in Karbala during Arbaeen. They simply slay it. Because of all the talent involved in putting this piece together, and the beautiful unified stance it represents at a time when the enemies of Islam want us at each other’s throats, I consider this gem the most wonderful thing I’ve ever done in my 17 years on the microphone. I pray, sincerely, that y’all love this song as much as us and I also pray, sincerely, that it spreads to every corner of the Islamic world so the “Silence On The Sheikh” is finally broken. Let it knock!

“Silence On The Sheikh” lyrics

by Yusuf Abdul-Mateen (1st verse), Rafiqi Green (2nd verse); Khanverse (3rd verse) and Madd Cold (Jonathan Azaziah; 4th verse, bridge and hook)

Verse 1 (Yusuf Abdul-Mateen)

You spit serious raps for Syria and Iraq/But it’s sad, you couldn’t find Nigeria on a map/We’re never hearing the facts from the MSM/See CNBC, Fox or CNN/And I don’t see an end in sight of the Shi’ite plight/Mass graves, last days, it won’t be alright/Until we fight, study, and read the blueprint/of Sheikh Zakzaky and his peaceful movement/ Since the Revolution, done for the cause/Even sacrificed six of his sons for Allah/Shaheeds, who bleed on the African sands/They even try to kill his wife, the better half of a man/And if it happens again, no joke, it’s on/ ‘Cause the government’s no different than Boko Haram/I slow-flow the song ’cause the message is strong/The Prophet and his Family get the blessings upon/Come on…

HOOK (Madd Cold)
Look around the Ummah and there’s Silence On The Sheikh
Don’t nobody give a damn about the violence and the rapes
Martyrs of Zaria, we will riot in your name
And tell the whole world, you were piled in a grave
By the most deplorable, tyrant in the pay
of ‘Israel’ and America, the vile and astray
Al-Saud too, but we’re defying them today
We just refuse to be silent on the Sheikh
HOOK II
Beantown and Chitown are rhyming for the Sheikh
Essex and Bradford are vibing for the Sheikh
Tehran and Kashmir are skying for the Sheikh
and Brooknam’s bombs make the Zionists decay
Ireland ain’t gon’ be silent on the Sheikh
Mother Africa ain’t silent on the Sheikh
Afghanistan ain’t silent on the Sheikh
and my beloved Iraq, we will pry him from his chains

Verse 2 (Rafiqi Green)

I came to speak truth, no worries God got me/At the podium like Malcolm you shot me/Did the same to Gamal and Qadhafi/Now they doing it to Sheikh Zakzaky/And they seized the property/It’s probably no probable cause on the arrest/They killed his 3 sons, and massacred the rest/And yes the US had been known of this, they lie about it and continue supporting Zionists/And uhh, it’s crazy how the people believe media/Other Muslims don’t support him ’cause he’s Shi’a/But he pray all five, and ain’t take no lives, and sends peace on the Prophet (S.A.W.W.), what are we doing here?/We falling to distractions, divisions, and names of the factions within the religion/But we got the same enemy watching/I know they wanna Pac me/Screaming free Zakzaky from the block to Washington!/

REPEAT HOOK

Verse 3 (Khanverse)

The real believers will lead the people/These evil creatures face demeaning defeat at the feet of God’s army/We speak of Shaheed Abdul Lateef Afghani (R.A.)/The peaceful and serene, esteemed preacher of the Deen Ibrahim Zakzaky/ He needs to be freed immediately, ’cause we not stopping/Even if they keep on bombing/The whole globe screaming, “I need peace!”/Truck bombs and IEDs, P2OG’s charred bodies/I’m sorry for, what the Monsters did in Zaria/Not acknowledged ’cause they not Khazar enough/Like our scars and our martyrs will not count among the slaughtered who were lost do not warrant such?/You claiming Islam but you’re slaves and Ikhwani stooges/Y’all are useless/Following the vultures’ demonic, repugnant Cultural Marxist blueprints/You are not Prophet Muhammad’s (S.A.W.W.) students/You say you care/You CAIR 4 Queers, but when the Sheikh disappeared, we didn’t hear from you, you were everywhere but there/We spitting ’till this innocent prisoner’s freed/Enflamed, in rage, ’cause he speaks on the criminal Heebs/ Betrayed this saintly sage, Silence on the Sheikh/Tyrants will be slain, their viruses erased/Wipe the slate clean from the demons that divide us/Regal eagle in the sky, with dreams to serve higher/True Love’s Mouqawamah, Sunni, Shia and Ahmadiyya survivors/Weak liars see feats that we inspire/Abdul-Mateen, Rafiqi Green, KV and Ziah

REPEAT HOOK

Verse 4 (Madd Cold)

Where are the Ummah and the activists for human rights?/Where is the Palestine Solidarity Movement? Too busy cackling and yapping with some Jewish types/Y’all will lash out at anyone anywhere who says anything “offensive” against some evil Yids/But when it comes to standing up for this man, who’s made millions of Africans aware, of every sick horror that the Falasteeni people live/Y’all feeble squids are nowhere to be found like the crown of a king overthrown in a coup/So we wanna know what kinda dough is flowing to you/Nevermind it’s so obvious even to the blind the Saudis got you confined so I won’t try to reach you pigs/Zakzaky’s a champion, you’re a disgrace/Zakzaky is the purest of saints/Only reason that I’m calling the names out of you morbid ingrates now is ‘cause I won’t let you deny the Nour on his face/Brethren, these hypocrites make me ill/You would think that spitting this makes me chill/But I swear on the Martyrs of Zaria that kicking this makes me feel/Furious, and I’m so serious I’m set to explode/If the Sheikh didn’t love Palestine so much they would’ve left him alone/If he never stood up for Yemen and Bahrain, they never would have brought hell to the steps of his home/wrecked and bulldozed the Huseiniyyah Baqiyatullah, his precious abode/If he ain’t defend Hizbullah, Syria and Iran, they wouldn’t have fired their weapons on him like a maleficent foe/If he never exposed Boko Haram, as a fraud of the Mossad then they wouldn’t have arrested and thrown/him and his wife into prison and put bullets in his sons, taking away their breaths and their souls/US and ‘Israel’ trained these goons, can’t you smell the habitual stink?/Ain’t nothing at all to riddle or think/Not about no “terror” but the oil and the gas and the soil and the grass and the tin and the zinc/Zakzaky was a target ‘cause he brought the diabolical Zionist project on the African continent to the literal brink/

BRIDGE (Madd Cold)
Death to the Buhari regime
Free Zakzaky, Free Zakzaky
Death to the Buhari regime
Free Zakzaky, Free Zakzaky
Death to the Buhari regime
Free Zakzaky, Free Zakzaky
Death to the Buhari regime
Free Zakzaky, Free Zakzaky
Death to the Buhari regime
Free Zakzaky, Free Zakzaky
We just refuse, we just refuse
We just refuse to be silent on the Sheikh!

REPEAT HOOK

by Jonathan “Madd Cold” Azaziah

Staying true to my promise comrades, especially all my Syrian brothers and sisters, “See You At The Citadel”, the victory track for Aleppo, is here.

Song, dance, music and art are as integral to life in Aleppo as its region-renowned hospitals and universities. For over 8,000 years, Aleppo has been at the forefront of civilization, making it one of the oldest and most continuously populated cities in the world. And standing right in the heart of this illustrious history is the Citadel of Aleppo–the proverbial and literal treasure of the city. So when the Syrian Arab Army, Hizbullah and their allies drove out the remaining terrorists from Aleppo’s Old City and planted the Syrian Arab Republic’s flag atop the Citadel, it was an iconic moment to be remembered for all-time and a victory of ancient culture over a barbarism which is antithetical to everything in existence. It was in this triumph that I found myself swept up in and transported to the front lines of liberation, like I was right there. It was in this glory that “See You At The Citadel” came to me. I’ve written many pieces about Aleppo since the defeat of Zionist-NATO-GCC-backed Al-Qaeda began, but it wasn’t enough. I needed to put it into rhyme. And as Intifada Street’s Mohammad Hamza, who did the extraordinary artwork for this song, will tell you, once the concept for “See You At The Citadel” entered my brain, the joint flowed outta me like light from the giant Christmas Tree is currently flowing out into the streets of Aleppo’s Azaziyah district. For three minutes and thirty seconds, I pour my heart and soul out for Halab. Because Halab and its defenders have poured their hearts and souls out for the world. I take y’all to the Aleppo Citadel because the Aleppo Citadel is the starting point for all history from this day forward. This is for my dear brother Aloushy al-Homsi, who has family in the Syrian Arab Army and the NDF on the battlefield in Aleppo and Hama. This is for the Syrian Arab Republic and its steadfast people, for whom books on how to obliterate empires will be written. Before that though… Rock with me at the Citadel under Liberated Aleppo’s clear skies! Let it blaze. Let it rage. Let it knock. #AleppoVictory #LongLiveAleppo #LongLiveSyria #SeeYouAtTheCitadel

“See You At The Citadel” lyrics

by Madd Cold (Jonathan Azaziah)

Five years of war and violent terror/But now we mark an end to the Zionist era/Church bells boom and the adhan too inside the Great Mosque/All that pain and, all that weight, it’s time to shake off/They wanted Bashar al-Assad gone and the scheme was heavy/But here in Aleppo, here in Aleppo Empire Judaica’s dreams were buried/Erdogan won’t see his Ottomans resurrected/Syria cannot and will not die, you can consider that Heaven’s message/Thought you’d break it, thought you’d take it into oblivion, leaving it torn and wasted but Syria, Syria, rose like a Rose from the endless wreckage/Jasmine in the air, imagine that it’s here, liberation, jubilation on the beautiful, musical, soothing faces of all these innocents who feast their eyes on the Syrian Army/They don’t look at them weary, leery or dodgy/Zionist media called them “thugs” and called them a “regime”/But listen now, all of it was sleaze/These men are protectors, defenders, they’re guardians and they’re pure and they’re pristine/Civilians did not run from them, they ran towards them, then they threw sweets at their cheeks to bless/Aleppo is reunified, ain’t no more damn East or West/Oded Yinon’s partition plot has been defeated and beat to death/Parents and gramses and grampses gaze upon their babies who are now full-grown soldiers of Jaysh al-Souri/Husbands reconnect with their wives, friends embrace and the separation breaks down, it is the greatest beauty/Their tears flow and I feel so emotional, humbled just to witness it, their sacrifices quake and move me/Look at these heroes, look at these legends/Fought nonstop for half a decade, to ensure that the crooks would be deaded/The horizon is gorgeous, go right on and look where we’re heading/Zionist entity disintegrates, squatters so shook that the seven/galaxies from 1,003 light years away, from the Milky Way, are trembling from ‘Israeli’ fear/Lame “Emir” in Qatar is having conniptions, Saudi “princes” are suicidally tripping, the end of this filth as well is crazy near/And it’s all ‘cause of Syria, Jews cried out, “Capital next!”/But these arrogant ones got stabbed in the chest/by Syrian steadfastness, which did not budge even under rabid duress/Resistance Axis intervened to fight the conspiracy off and blasted the neck/We’re one hand, our people took down the savages, yes!/Terrorists from 100 countries around the globe/Backed to the hilt by NATO, but Syria resisted, that is powerful/And lest we forget, there’d be no win if it wasn’t for the astutest brothers/Angelic Hizbullah, of Lebanon, the Iraqi Resistance, Mighty Iran and Putin’s Russia/Enemies said Syria was alone, yo, these stupid fuckers/Death to the Five Eyes Alliance/and Global Zionism, that Hive-Minded Virus/Aleppo is free! Admit it, you failed to sideline defiance/Flag of the Syrian Arab Republic flies sublime, and it shines high in vibrance/Lemme put my fist in the sky, then make the victory sign/Lemme put my fist in the sky, then make the victory sign/Takfiriyeen, you’re feeble and you’re pitiful/your revolution was liquidated, Aleppo is free, people, it’s a miracle!/Long live Halab, see you at the citadel/Long Live Aleppo, Long Live Aleppo/Long Live Aleppo, you prevailed over The Devils/Long Live Halab, Long Live Halab/Long Live Halab, Martyrs of Mouqawamah, soar in Jannah/See You At The Citadel…

In an interview with Muslim Press, Muslim poet Jonathan Azaziah says, “This year’s Arbaeen march, as well as the marches of the previous two years, can be considered the largest peaceful protest against Daesh, Takfirism generally, Zionism and Imperialism on the face of the planet.”

Read the full text of the interview:

Muslim Press: Millions of Shia Muslims have defied ISIS terror attacks by visiting the holy shrine of Imam Hussein (AS) in Arbaeen. How do you see this event?

Jonathan Azaziah: I see it in an ultra-straightforward manner: It’s the most beautiful thing in the world! You have more than 20 million human beings, mostly Shi’a Muslims of course, but also Sunnis, Sufis, Christians of all stripes, Shabakis, Ezadis and even a handful of Hindus, traveling to the holy sands of Karbala to renew their commitment to the person of Imam Hussein (A.S.), the original revolutionary; the primordial defier of tyranny; the master of martyrs and the grandsire of resistance. Ever since Aba Abdallah (A.S.) achieved victory through his sacrifice on Youm al-Ashoura in 680 A.D. (61 A.H.), a divide has existed in the world that can accurately be described as the Husseini-Yazidi split. Those who stand with justice are the partisans of Imam Hussein (A.S.) and those who stand against what is right are the partisans of the degenerate despot Yazid (L.A.) Anyone who would attempt to harm the former–i.e. these beautiful people, these souls of remarkable spirituality who love Imam Hussein (A.S.) more than they love anything–are agents of evil. And of course, from the modern geopolitical perspective, this year’s Arbaeen march, as well as the marches of the previous two years, can be considered the largest peaceful protest against Daesh, Takfirism generally, Zionism and Imperialism on the face of the planet. Yet this dazzling event remains largely under the radar among Western audiences on the one hand due to extraordinarily limited (essentially nonexistent) media coverage and primarily unknown to Arab-Islamic audiences outside of the Shi’a school of thought on the other hand because of the slanted, shameful, sectarian “reportage” from the likes of brutal dictatorships Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

MP: Arbaeen is known as the largest annual gathering throughout the world. How is it possible to hold such large gathering with ISIS in the region?

JA: We can thank the moujahideen of the Iraqi Resistance for that. Men from Shi’a Islamic Liberationist groups like Kata’ib Hizbullah, Harakat Hizbullah al-Nujaba, Asa’ib Ahlul Haqq, Kata’ib Sayyed al-Shouhada and the Imam Ali (A.S.) Brigade, all of whom confronted the American-British-Zionist occupation in the past, worked day and night, around the clock, to ensure that the tens of millions of pilgrims would be safe and sound. The failure of the Iraqi security establishment vis-a-vis preventing car bombs and suicide attacks in and around the capital of Baghdad is well-known, and considering much of the Iraqi army and other security forces are presently busy in the operation to free Mosul from Daesh, the warriors of the Iraqi Mouqawamah stepped in to fill the void. And because of their dauntless, steadfast stance in confronting the enemy, the cowardly terrorists from ISIS didn’t get anywhere near the holy shrines of Imam Hussein (A.S.) and Abou Fadhl al-Abbas (A.S.) in Karbala, nor the shrine of Imam Ali (A.S.) in Kufa. The pilgrims, and all of humanity, owe these courageous men everything.

MP: What message do (Shia) Muslims want to convey through their march?

JA: The aim here is three-fold: 1) International, i.e. showing the world, which has been brainwashed in the most terrible way by the Zionist media, that Islam is not terrorism, barbarism and sectarianism, but peace, love, justice, resistance and brotherhood. That Islam heals and unifies, it doesn’t maim and destroy. Indeed, the intent is to redraw the images in the minds of global onlookers about what Islam is and how it looks when the Sunnah of our Holy Prophet Muhammad (S.A.W.W.) is followed and the purity of his Holy Household (A.S.) is embraced. 2) National, i.e. showing Daesh and its backers that in spite of all the atrocities they commit and chaos they disseminate, Iraqis will not stop living their lives and they will not close their doors to their fellow lovers of Imam Hussein (A.S.)–we (Iraqis) are after all known as the most generous people on Earth! And the pilgrims themselves are showing solidarity with Iraqis, letting us know that we are not alone in our struggles and they have our backs just like we have theirs. 3) Religious, i.e. adhering to the obligation every Husseini has to Aba Abdallah (A.S.) and standing up for him and his martyrdom every Ashoura and every Arbaeen no matter what. If the Imam (A.S.) could march into Karbala with only 72 of his companions and family members in the face of an army comprised of more than 30,000, why shouldn’t 20 million some odd Shi’a march into Karbala for Arbaeen in the face of a few thousand terrorists? Hayhat minna zilla (Us, humiliated?! Never, ever!) is an eternal motto for a reason!

MP: What should all Muslims do in order to be united against common enemies, such as ISIS and the mastermind behind it?

JA: Ayatollah Sayyed Ruhollah Khomeini’s famous quote comes to mind, “We Muslims are busy bickering about whether to fold or unfold our arms during Salat whilst the enemy is devising ways of cutting them off.” Our differences, be they political, historical or jurisprudential, ultimately aren’t relevant. Because the enemy, and by enemy I don’t merely mean Daesh but the US-Zionist Empire which spawned the Takfiri bacteria to begin with, kills us all the same regardless of school of thought, ethnic background, national origin or anything else. We all follow the same Prophet (S.A.W.W.), we pray the same prayers, we read the same Holy Qur’an, pay the same Zakat, do the same fasting on Ramadan and the same celebrating on Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha. We must cling to these truths for dear life and remember in the depths of our very being when the enemy approaches with its malicious plots of division and sedition. Islam is what will bind us and lead us to triumph over those who seek our destruction.

MP: What’s your take on the fight against ISIS in Iraq? Has it been successful during the last year?

JA: The battle is going exceptionally well, hence why Iraqi forces were able to launch the operation to liberate Mosul to begin with. The victories in Diyala, Salahuddine (including Tikrit), Jaref as-Sakher, Amerli, Al-Anbar (including Ramadi and Fallujah), Baghdad and its outskirts and other areas, all paved the way for this moment. I wrote a piece called “Mosul’s Murky Maze: Walking The Line Between Iraqi Liberation And American Political Theater” which deals with the intricacies of the operation of Iraq’s second city, so I will not regurgitate that here, though I do encourage your readers to take the time to read it. What I will say is that this fight to cleanse Iraq of all traces of Daesh is progressing forward rapidly IN SPITE of the American regime, not because of it, nor because of its assistance which has been criminally negligent at best and deliberately incompetent at worst. Washington does not want to see ISIS stomped out from Iraq because it is a strategic asset of Zio-Imperialism in our region. The Iraqi army however and the Iraqi Mouqawamah, especially the groups mentioned above, are pouring in their blood, sweat and tears into the Mosul operation and they will not be hindered by any US scheme. Iraqi Resistance fighters have already encircled Tal Afar, thus cutting off all roads connecting Mosul to Raqqa and trapping Daesh like flies in a bug-zapper, and the Iraqi military is advancing into Mosul’s depths from three different directions. The end of ISIS’s reign is near and so is a new day for Iraq–a day of peace, prosperity, rebuilding and sovereignty, without any Wahhabi, ‘Israeli’ or American interloper in sight. Insha’ALLAH khair ya Rab.

Introduction (by Jonathan Azaziah): Jummah Mubarak! Been meaning to share this with y’all for a good while. Back in October, I had the honor and blessing of being interviewed by the Islamic Revolution International Center, a zine/think tank run by revolutionary Iranian students. We talked a little bit about where I came from and what drove me to become an MC; the origins of Islamophobia; Zionist control of the music industry; the fight to overthrow World Zionism’s system of hegemony; and the definition and aims of Mouqawamah Music. As a Khomeiniist, this meant a great deal to me and I pray all of you, my dear comrades, enjoy the read. I have to thank brother Abdullah Mohamadi for the beautiful opportunity and in these arduous times, I also want to once again extend all my love and solidarity to the resistant Islamic Republic of Iran and its most wonderful people.

***Just a quick note regarding the title: “Hip-Hop Hizbullah”, which I mention in the interview, is a lyric from my song “The Liberators“, featuring my beloved brother Khanverse KV, off my 2015 album “Son of Kufa Vol. 1: Rise Of The Anomaly”. With the subject matter at hand, I consider it most apt ***

Islamic Revolution International Center: Can you give us a brief bio of yourself?

Jonathan Azaziah: My name is Jonathan Azaziah–which is Arabic for “powerful light”–and am known on the mic as Madd Cold, a moniker I earned because of the harsh truths I would spit whilst rap-battling in the streets of Brooklyn (or Iraqlyn as I like to call it), New York City, where I was born and raised. I am 29 years old and am the son of an Iraqi father and a Moroccan-Russian mother. DTI (Death to ‘Israel’!) is my motto, “Ya Hussein (A.S.)!” is my battlecry, Mesopotamia is my soul, Palestine is my compass and Yemen is my heart! Don’t have anything else on my mind 24 hours a day except playing my part in the liberation of our people from the clutches of World Arrogance.

IRIC: What’s it like to be the son of an Iraqi father and a Moroccan-Russian mother living in US?

JA: I grew up in the Marcy Projects in Bedford-Stuyvesant, so life in general was very hard to say the least. The American regime dares speak about Global South nations that are “undeveloped”–mind you, this underdevelopment is because of centuries of Rothschild-financed colonialism–but its citizens in ghettos and projects like Marcy across the country suffer unspeakably. Drugs, violence, police brutality, prostitution, gangs, exploitation by savage slumlords and filth-peddlers, all this is an everyday reality and it shaped my worldview to a great extent. And then when you couple this with being Arab and Muslim, Iraqi Shi’a specifically, it makes things even more difficult. Thanks to the obscenely wealthy likes of Zionist Jews such as the Chernicks and Nina Rosenwald, Islamophobia is rampant across the US so even if you keep your head down so to speak, you’re going to be a target. I wear my Iraqi Shi’a heritage like a badge of honor however and regardless of how bad things get, no amount of Zionist-fueled bigotry is going to force me to lower my voice or stop exposing these monsters.

IRIC: What lead you to start working as a poet and singer? Why did you choose hip hop?

JA: I would say, and any real MC will tell you the same thing, that I didn’t choose Hip-Hop! Hip-Hop chose me! And it was ALLAH (SWT) through His infinite wisdom and grace that led me to this art at the age of 12 and gave me a gift to express myself in rhyme form. Hip-Hop is the voice of the Mostazafeen! There is no music in history that has given a platform to so many oppressed communities throughout the planet! Blacks, Latinos, Muslims, poor Whites, etc. And what drives everything for those of us who identify as REAL MCs is our commitment to fighting injustice. Simply put, if you are not taking your God-given abilities to stand up for those whose legs were taken from them and raise your voice for those whose voice-boxes were ripped out, then you’re not real and you damn sure aren’t doing your job. So for me, I not only rhyme because I am naturally inclined to as this is the way ALLAH (SWT) made me, but also because I feel it is my duty. Palestine, Iraq, Yemen, Syria, Kashmir and so many more are enduring the most vicious hardships… The least I can do is rhyme about it and bring their plight to a worldwide audience.

IRIC: How many albums have you released so far? Can you name them? Which one of them has been your most successful work? Which of them has been most welcomed by people?

JA: I’ve released four and am working on the fifth as we speak. Enemy Of The Entity (October 2014), which was dedicated to the Palestinian people of Gaza who suffered but heroically warded off the Zionists’ evil in Operation Mighty Cliff, Dead The Dajjal (June 2015), Son of Kufa Vol. 1: Rise Of The Anomaly (July 2015) and my latest record Felicity Of The Oppressed (March 2016), dedicated entirely to the Yemeni people. All of the albums have been received well, alhamdulillah, but the most successful work, in terms of how far it spread and the amount of sales it did–which all went to charity in Iraq, Syria and Yemen–was Son of Kufa Vol. 1: Rise Of The Anomaly, and this is most likely due to the vast amount of topics I covered on the record, that included everything from 9/11 truth to Hugo Chavez to Palestine and much, much more.

IRIC: Do you have any other profession outside the music industry?

JA: Yes, I am also an investigative researcher/essayist and a radio show host. My program is called the Mouqawamah Music Mask of Zion Report on The Ugly Truth broadcasting network. My essays and podcasts, like my songs and poems, all deal with the evils of Zionism, Imperialism, Takfirism and International Jewry, building Islamic-Christian unity and what the best solution is to free the world form the yoke of these most despicable, most demonic tyrants.

IRIC: Have you been pressured for the works you do?

JA: Absolutely. I’ve been offered a mainstream record deal on more than one occasion and the stipulation has always been for me to stop rhyming about international affairs and end my “militancy”. Just last year, my album release party for Son of Kufa Vol. 1: Rise Of The Anomaly was severely disrupted and ultimately ruined because of my staunch positions on Yemen and the ‘Israeli’ false flag on September 11th, 2001. Because the music industry is controlled from top to bottom by Zionists, those who make the conscientious decision to tell the truth about the horrors humanity is facing will be attacked and undermined without fail. Imam Ali (A.S.) did indeed say that those who follow him–and thus follow the truth–must always be prepared to suffer. So it’s no sweat off my back!

IRIC: Who do you admire in music the industry? Do you know any Iranian artists active in music?

JA: I don’t admire anyone in the music industry; not a single soul. Because all the mainstream artists are puppets and all the so-called “revolutionary” artists are sellouts, something I go into detail about in an essay I wrote back in May of this year called, “The Hip-Hop Nakba: Just Like Palestine, Our Culture Needs Liberation From Its Jewish Occupiers”. The only artists I rock with are those who I consider dear brothers in my inner circle like Khanverse, Shan51, Payday Monsanto, Trevor LaBonte, Yusuf Abdul-Mateen and Rafiqi Green. As for Iranian artists, I don’t know any personally, but you’ll be delighted to know, I actually am working with an Iranian activist brother by the name of Navid Nasr for my upcoming record. He’s an executive producer.

IRIC: What are you pursuing as the Editor-In-Chief of Mouqawamah Music ? What is your definition of Mouqawamah Music? Who are the most prominent figures in this area?

JA: Our goal at Mouqawamah Music is to liberate the current discourse in Western circles that centers around appeasing Zionist Jews, who constitute the greatest threat to the survival of humans beings on Earth. Instead of exposing their schemes, most Western activists are worrying about their sensitivities and this must stop. Mouqawamah is the Arabic word for Resistance and namely armed Resistance, so Mouqawamah Music is both Hip-Hop and geopolitical analysis armed with bullets, missiles, rockets and tanks of truth and our struggle will be victorious by any means necessary insha’ALLAH khair. As for the most prominent figures, the brothers I mentioned above, as well as myself, represent the definition of Mouqawamah Music I’ve laid out here to the letter. This isn’t just a name, nor merely a label, a site, or even a concept, it is a newly inaugurated organism! A Hip-Hop Hizbullah! And we will not lay down our arms, i.e. our microphones, pens and pads, until the Judeo-Masonic system of Al-Dajjal is destroyed.

by Jonathan “Madd Cold” Azaziah

If you love Palestine and you love Hip-Hop, then what you need to do is go cop my dearest brother from another mother Ali Mabous’s new album “Sum Power 4 Da Masses”. Sometimes dark and sometimes beautiful, sometimes poetic and sometimes raw, but always, always, ALWAYS dope beyond measure, my beloved dun effortlessly delivers a 30-track masterpiece and his best work to date. The son of martyred Palestinian Resistance legend Muhammad Abbas (aka Abou Abbas) and an artist-activist of the utmost ability and passion, Mabous48’s story ***MUST*** be heard and should be cherished by anyone and everyone who considers himself (or herself) Mouqawamist-minded. I was (and am) so happy to be part of this gorgeous release, on the 21st joint, “Power Of Language (Language Is War),” and it is definitely one of the highlights of the record. My other personal favorites are “Power Trippin'”, “Tales of Power”, “Hip-Hop and I”, “Universal Movement”, “Mabous Da Masses” and “Pure Power” which features Hip-Hop legend Canibus. Mabous, habibi, you should be beyond proud of yourself for this project… It ain’t just your magnum opus but a gem and a half. From Iraq to Falasteen, Brooklyn to Montreal, Striking Star Salute and keep ’em coming!!

by Jonathan Azaziah

Humanity died on this day 52 years ago, when Hajj Malik el-Shabazz (R.A.), better known to the world as Malcolm X, was gunned down in the Audubon Ballroom of Washington Heights. We are told by the Zionist-dominated mainstream media that the Nation of Islam killed him but we know better. Traitors within the NOI were indeed the triggermen but they weren’t the orchestrators. That distinction goes to the COINTELPRO tandem of the FBI and the Anti-Defamation League Of B’nai B’rith (ADL), which were both conducting heavy surveillance on Malcolm up until the day of his martyrdom and which both wanted the elimination of this giant at all costs because of his stances on Anti-Zionism, Anti-Imperialism and Black Independence.

I can write pages and pages about Hajj Malik’s revolutionary solidarity activism that has inspired hundreds of millions of youth across the globe, especially Black, Brown and Muslim youth. I can write about his courageous stances on Palestine and Vietnam, Congo and Cuba, Egypt and beyond. I can write just about infinitely of how his defiance of White (and Jewish) supremacy here in the United Snakes of IsraHELL catapulted freedom for millions of Persons of Color but he never got the recognition he deserved because the Jewish-controlled, Jewish-subverted “Civil Rights Movement” felt he was too “radical”. I can write about all of this and more, so much more, but that’s already been done by many other people with far more credentials and ability than I. Instead… I’d just like to say the following: Malcolm X saved my life. And without him, I wouldn’t be here today.

When I was 15, my mentor Randall Muhammad (R.A.), who ran with both the Black Panthers and the Nation of Islam in their heydays and was responsible for bringing more kids than I can count off the streets in both Iraqlyn (Brooklyn) and Shaolin (Staten Island), gave me a copy of “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”. At the time, I spent my days writing and rhyming, essentially, about nothing–“rapping to rap” and “battling to battle” as the sayings go. But then I read that book–that treasure chest–and I haven’t been the same since. That rawness, that realism, that truth, that purity, that honesty, that revolutionary power, that defiance, that fearlessness, that WILL to overcome in the face of monsters and demons, devils and savages, AmeriKKKAn racism and hegemony… Transformed my mind, my soul and my entire essence. And from that moment on, I swore that I wouldn’t write a single bar of music nor a single line of poetry if it wasn’t going to uplift our people, i.e. the Moustazafeen (oppressed ones), in one form or another. If Randall never gave me that book, I don’t know where I would’ve ended up… In a gutter somewhere or the bing most likely. So allow me to say it again: Malcolm X saved my life. And without him, I wouldn’t be here today.

Malcolm X taught me to rock with justice no matter what it may entail and no matter who it may offend. That especially means the liberal, discourse-policing wing of the Jewish Power Configuration, which Hajj Malik mercilessly ripped apart in his book… Page 289 always particularly sticks out vividly in my thoughts. Malcolm had zero issue calling out liberal Jews for their machinations and hypocrisy, slumlord Jews and their oppression in ghettos nationwide and Zionist Jews for their theft of Palestine. Why is it that among the Arab/Muslim/Black Diaspora and activist community today, people deliberately omit this vital aspect of Malcolm’s ideology and worldview? Have they lost their fear of God and supplanted it with the fear of being called “anti-Semitic”? Damn sure looks like it but to be unequivocally clear: That is not a reflection of Malcolm X. On the contrary, it is actually a perversion of his legacy. Malcolm taught us the deepest meaning of truth; he exposed all those engaged in oppression, whether it was House Negros or White Supremacists, “Christian” hypocrites or fake Muslims or globe-holding Yahoudlings. In short, Hajj Malik el-Shabazz taught us how to resist. And speaking personally, he taught me dignity and confidence and dauntlessness before I had the faintest idea of what any of those things meant–literally or spiritually.

Since reading “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” 14 years ago, I’ve made it a point to read it again at least once a year to refresh my memory of Malcolm and rejuvenate my own being with his Mouqawamist energy and fire. I pray I speak for anyone who has ever had the pleasure and honor of being blessed with Malcolm’s writings and speeches when I say that he gave us PURPOSE. None of us would be doing what we’re doing at this current moment if he did not take the righteous positions he did five decades ago. I pray I also speak for EVERYONE when I say: Thank you Malcolm. We love you. We miss you. And we honor you everyday by adhering to your exceptional example and refusing to let liberals hijack your militancy. The Holy Prophet Muhammad (S.A.W.W.) famously said, “The best Jihad is to speak a word of truth to an unjust ruler.” Nobody in the West, and I do mean NOBODY, personifies that quite like Malcolm X. And on the global stage, there are only a handful of revolutionary and saintly personalities who eclipse him. Rest in power Hajj Malik el-Shabazz… Rest in power forever.

by Jonathan “Madd Cold” Azaziah

Death to YouTube. Earlier yesterday evening, I received a notification that the video for my joint “Zionist Job” was taken down due to “hate speech” and that my YouTube account had a “strike” on it, thus vastly limiting my sharing/posting “privileges” for three months and putting the account in total jeopardy if another “hate speech” violation is found. I’ve appealed the decision, but considering I have “Death To ‘Israel'”, “I Ain’t Charlie” and “Overthrow The Saudis” on the channel, I’m under no illusions that deletion is where I’m heading. This is pure, Orwellian, totalitarian censorship. YouTube, owned by the Jewish supremacist demons Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Google, has always targeted Anti-Zionist content and the removal of my song reflects this ongoing commitment to hasbara in totality. The message couldn’t be clearer: ISIS and Al-Qaeda propaganda? Fine. Saudi propaganda against the peoples of Yemen, Syria and Iraq? Fine. American, British, French and other colonialist propaganda covering up all types of crimes against humanity? Fine. ‘Israeli’ propaganda hiding atrocities and the usurping Zionist serpent’s backing of Takfiri terrorists regionwide? Fine. Hideous bigotry against Muslims? Most especially fine. Even soft 9/11 “truth” presented by the Zionist-run InfoWars/Loose Change crowd? Absolutely and perfectly FINE. But delve into Earth-shaking, game-changing, paradigm-shattering truths like who actually ***DID*** 9/11, i.e. ‘Israel’ and its Jewish-Zionist criminal network in New York and DC, say BYE-BYE ’cause that just doesn’t fly. I guess though… It’s true what they say, ain’t it? If The Monsters aren’t trying to take you down, then you’re not doing anything right, are you? So I’m gonna rock this as a badge of honor. I’ll remain upright too. With the microphone firmly in my hand and a will to keep exposing ‘Israel’ ’till all the criminal Jews and their Gentile collaborators in the 9/11 plot are brought to justice for knocking the Towers down and waging a global war on Islam. And TRUST, I will most certainly remain Anti-Parasitic as a muhfucka while I’m at it. Death to YouTube.

“Zionist Job” can still be heard on Soundcloud and Bandcamp. Let it knock and spread it far and wide in defiance of YouTube’s censorship.

by Jonathan “Madd Cold”

‘Bout to hit the studio for the FINAL session of “Eternally Husseini”… I’ll be recording the outro to the album, an ultra-heavy track called “When The Rocks & The Trees Cry”. But it’s hard to feel anything other than something between crippling melancholy and feral fury after what happened today in Damascus. All my love and solidarity to those martyred in the Takfiri suicide bombings on the Syrian capital as well as the wounded and their steadfast families. Prayers and heartfelt vibes to my Syrian brethren too. It’s not a coincidence that these heinous atrocities were perpetrated today, for today marks six years of war. Six years of terrorism. Six years of destabilization. Six years of chaos in the name of “Greater ‘Israel'” because the usurping Zionist entity and its NATO-GCC puppets proved themselves unable to knock down the Resistance Axis in the 2006 July War. But also… Six years of RESISTANCE. Everything happening on Syrian soil at this moment is a direct result of the ‘Israeli’-American-Khaleeji failure to defeat Hizbullah over a decade ago and Syria’s refusal to abandon its decades-long military support for the resistance organisms in Lebanon and occupied Palestine. Six years of horror but Syria, its Army and its remarkable people have shown the Empire that their knees don’t buckle; their voices do not crack; their fists do not unclench; and their spirits do not shatter.

The Monsters started this project thinking that Syrian President Dr. Bashar al-Assad would be toppled and every inch of Bilad al-Sham would fall under their dominion. Instead, what The Monsters have received is their biggest defeat ever as every inch of Bilad al-Sham is on the verge of liberation–just like Aleppo. Can’t cry, won’t cry. Indeed, because skying, like 10,000 years of Syrian civilization, is the much, MUCH preferred option. Rest in heavenly light to the glorious Shouhada. I bring y’all into the booth with me today as Syria’s struggle is Iraq’s struggle. In your radiantly blessed names, I’m gonna let it rip something FIERCE. See you on the other side of the Mouqawamist Microphone. #LongLiveSyria #LongLiveAssad #LongLiveTheSAA #LongLiveHizbullah #HipHopHizbullah #MaddCold #EternallyHusseiniComingSoon

by Jonathan “Madd Cold” Azaziah

“Eternally Husseini” is offically recorded in its entirety! I’m done! Alhamdulillah ya Rab! And so, as the mixing and mastering process now begins, I’d like to announce the ironclad release date for the album: May 25th, 2017, Resistance and Liberation Day. Yes, Iron Galaxy and I picked this holy and historic occasion for the day we drop our record because just as Hizbullah liberated Lebanon from a 22-year Zionist occupation and killed ‘Greater Israel’ dead, we hope these 15 tracks will not only raise further awareness among our ranks, but also set off a chain reaction which will birth an Anti-Parasitic Hip-Hop movement determined to free our music and culture from Jewish/Corporate domination. I’ll be releasing individual promo pieces of each one of the revolutionary figures you see here (and a few other surprises) at least once a week until “Eternally Husseini” drops. I would be under-selling the living daylights out of it if I just tell you that the record is dope, that it’s just fly as skies set ablaze or that it’s just ill as hospitals with a dire medicine shortage. It’s next-level all the way around and y’all are gonna flip like acrobats on angeldust when you hear it. TRUST.

With that said, allow me to send a GARGANTUAN Striking Star Salute to everyone who participated in the making of the album, ’cause I couldn’t have done it without y’all: Trevor Labonte, who absolutely and epically slaughtered the guitar on my 9/11 magnum opus “Fifteen Years Of Hell”. Navid Nasr, who brought cool, eloquence and ultra-class to the record’s painful, heartrending Yemen anthem, “Ali al-Tawaari’s Vengeance”. Nashid Abdul-Khaaliq, who delivered wisdom, power and brilliance on “Who Do You Fear? (Shirk Nation)”, a scathing assault on the hypocrites of “The Ummah”. Yusuf Abdul-Mateen Trombly, Rafiqi Green and Khanverse KV, who brought beautiful brotherhood, unity and lyrical mastery to “Silence On The Sheikh”, our call to free Sheikh Ibrahim Yaqoub al-Zakzaky from the tyrannical, terrorist Buhari regime. FREE ZAKZAKY BY THE WAY!! And last but nothing even close to least, a special shout-out to Mohammad Hamza of Intifada Street, whose incredible artwork (as you can see here) took this entire project to mesospheric heights and through his visuals, inspired me into penning some of my finest bars to date. Much love to you my dearest brothers and thank you again, so much, for being part of this. #EternallyHusseiniComingSoon #HipHopHizbullah #MaddCold #HusseiniDayMay25th

by Jonathan “Madd Cold” Azaziah

“Eternally Husseini” drops in 64 days!

There is no revolutionary as formidable, inspiring and important as Hizbullah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah. He stands as both a giant-like individual and an unstoppable spiritual force who is feared by his enemies and loved by his partisans. As the Ummah’s loudest and most eloquent voice for Yemen, the Ummah’s most steadfast champion of the Palestinian cause, the Ummah’s brightest beam of Anti-Zionism, the Ummah’s most fearless opposition to the House of Saud, and the liberator of Lebanon, he exemplifies everything Muslims and activists of all stripes should strive towards becoming. As I rhymed on my track “For the Sayyeds”, off my 2016 album for Yemen, “Exposed Saud as a pathetic embarrassment, shredded their arrogance/Sayyed you’re a legend and in Heaven no doubt the angels already built you sevens of the most splendid, incredible garrisons/”. It is for this reason, as we seek to leave our own legendary mark in the struggle against Zio-Imperialism, that Sayyed Hassan is featured so heavily in all aspects of “Eternally Husseini”. If there was any one person who represents Imam Hussein (A.S.) to the fullest in this epoch, it is Nasrallah, and if there was anyone who carries the Husseini spirit in his every word and deed, again, it is Nasrallah. When I write my bars, I carry him with me. When I lace up in the booth, I carry him with me. When I rip on stage, I carry him, one of a mere handful of Islamic warrior-saints in the last 1,000 years, with me. And I know that Mohammad Hamza, the brilliant artist (and my brother-in-arms) behind this gorgeous print and all the other “Eternally Husseini” artwork, does the same when he sits down with a blank canvas and gets to knocking out a masterpiece. “Labaykah Ya Nasrallah!” isn’t just a chant, it’s a way of life. And we will forever be at Sayyed Abou Hadi’s service until the casket drops. Beyond that too. He embodies the true meaning of “Eternally Husseini” and because of that, we emulate him in all that we do. #EternallyHusseiniComingSoon #HipHopHizbullah #MaddCold #HusseiniDayMay25th #LabaykahYaNasrallah

by Jonathan “Madd Cold” Azaziah

It was two years ago today that the murderous Saudi Kingdom of Darkness began its genocidal war on Yemen. And it was one year ago today that I dropped my fourth album “Felicity Of The Oppressed” in honor of this blessed, ancient land, its people, its history, its struggle, its pain, its tragedy and its triumphs led by the Yemeni Islamic Resistance of Ansarullah. Every drop of the proceeds from the record were sent to Yemen and by the grace of ALLAH (SWT), a wonderful chunk of change was raised, including enough to rebuild the Saudi-destroyed family home of my martyred brother Ghassan al-Husseini in Saada’s Dahyan. Because my goal was met, and because I believe so firmly and deeply in the project, I have removed the price sticker and in a nod to this solemn occasion, released it for free download. As I wrote in a commentary called “Felicity Of The Oppressed Ain’t Just An Album, It’s A Lyrical Movie!” last April, “Like Hizbullah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the greatest, most important revolutionary of our age, noted recently, the speech he gave on the second day of the aggression against Yemen, in which he ripped out the Saudi regime’s rotten core for the entire Arab-Islamic world to see, was the thing he was most proud of in his life. I echo this sentiment in a way I really am not capable of describing. Maybe other records I’ve done were doper than this joint, I leave that to y’all to decide, but “Felicity Of The Oppressed” is the thing I am most proud of in my life.” This very much remains the case today. I pray with every fiber of my being that y’all love and cherish this music as much as I do. So for Yemen, its martyrs and its steadfast moujahideen defending its sanctified soil from the Saudi invaders at this very moment, LET IT KNOCK!

by Jonathan “Madd Cold” Azaziah

Only 59 days ’till “Eternally Husseini” explodes into your headphones like one of Ansarullah’s ballistic missiles!

Marking two years of Dönmeh Al-Saud’s aggression against Yemen, let’s raise our fists one time to honor the man who has guided the Yemeni people against the Zio-Imperialist scheme to divide their nation; the hero who has commandeered a powerful resistance movement which has already etched its place in the pantheon of counter-hegemonic strugglers for all-time: Sayyed Abdul Malik al-Houthi. Fiery and eloquent, brilliant and wise, the leader of Ansarullah is as fearless as any moujahid currently on the battlefield defending Yemen against the Saudi-led invaders. He is a Soldier-Saint with a truly LIVING LEGEND status. Trained in the Muhammadi-Husseini-Zaydi sciences at the onset of his teenage years by his brother, the giant of giants Sayyed Hussein al-Houthi (R.A.), Sayyed Abdul Malik always had a passion for Islam, Anti-Imperialism and Palestine, which rests dearest and deepest in his heart. And when his blessed brother was martyred at the hands of the US-‘Israeli’-Saudi-backed Saleh regime in the first war launched by the Sanaa tyranny against the people of northern Yemen in ’04, he stepped in to lead the Houthis into their next phase. Like Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah taking over for Sayyed Abbas Moussawi (R.A.) and transforming Hizbullah into the powerhouse it is today, Sayyed Abdul al-Houthi made Ansarullah into a game-changing, region-shifting resistance organism from a ragtag group of fearsome guerilla fighters. But it was during Operation Scorched Earth that his transcendent essence was solidified. Al-Saud was mercilessly bombing Saada and hit the Al-Houthi family home. Al-Arabiya triumphantly proclaimed that Sayyed Abdul Malik was killed in the attack. But alas! Just days later, he popped up in an interview, wounded with his arm in a sling and some burns but little else, and he fiercely declared, “I am not dead o’ tyrants! I am alive and I am well! I carry the scars of your cowardly air raids with pride! Hear me! We will fight you ’till all of Arabia no longer knows your oppression!” The man was struck by the sickle of the angel of death and he walked away unscathed. The Lion of Dahyan indeed!

It is all this and more that inspired me to shout him out by name on “Labaykah ya Muhammad (S.A.W.W.)” and salute Ansarullah throughout the album, most prominently on “Ali al-Tawaari’s Vengeance”. Imam Hussein (A.S.) could not have asked for a better representative of his ideals and courage in Yemen than Sayyed Abdul Malik al-Houthi. Ansarullah’s chief is, and will always be, undoubtedly, ETERNALLY HUSSEINI in every sense. That is why Mohammad Hamza and I decided to immortalize him for this record with Shi’a Islamic Liberationist art and music. And beyond that… We would lay our lives down for him. #EternallyHusseiniComingSoon #MaddCold #HipHopHizbullah #HipHopAnsarullah #HusseiniDayMay25th #LongLiveYemen #LongLiveAnsarullah

by Jonathan “Madd Cold” Azaziah

The march to “Eternally Husseini” continues! Only 54 days away now!

In the wake of Iraqi Islamic Resistance group Harakat Hizbullah al-Nujaba (HHN) forming the Golan Liberation Brigade, a very dear Iraqi-Syrian brother of mine said to me just the other day that never before has he been as proud to be Iraqi as he is right now. And I couldn’t agree more. That our dauntless moujahideen–who are already in the midst of fighting the merciless Takfiri enemy not only on our own soil but also across the western Iraqi border on multiple fronts in the Syrian Arab Republic–would make the strategic decision to put their best and brightest on the front lines of another arena in direct confrontation with the ‘Israeli’ enemy is a testament to their heroism, their Anti-Zionist vision, their love of martyrdom, their deep-rooted commitment to the path of Imam Hussein (A.S.) and their passion for the Palestinian cause. Leading HHN’s brave fighters of course is the one and only Sheikh Akram al-Kaabi. Rendered gorgeously and perfectly here by Mohammad Hamza aka Dr. Ever-Brill (founder of Intifada Street and my beloved brother), Harakat al-Nujaba’s fiery and exceptional chief is a moujahid paralleled by very, VERY few in the Ummah today. A son of Iraq’s fiercely Husseini and poverty-stricken Shi’a south, he began his revolutionary career as a student of Al-Shahid Ayatollah Sayyed Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr. He was a rising star at the Hawza of Najaf al-Ashrad and completed his studies with the highest honors. Despite all his accolades however, he has always remained a humble servant beholden to the Holy Prophet (S.A.W.W.) and Ahlul Bayt (A.S.)

The despicable and collaborationist regime of Saddam Hussein would lock him up and torture him on numerous occasions out of abyssal fear of his oratory talents, stances of anti-tyranny and Anti-Imperialism, and stature among southern Iraq’s shabab. When the Americans invaded, he was one of the first persons to call all Iraqis, not merely Shi’a, to take up arms against the Anglo-Zionist occupation. His Resistance activities landed him back in a cell, this time in prisons controlled by the US aggressors, who, like their puppet Saddam, would torture the Sheikh, hoping to break him into giving up his comrades. Al-Kaabi never cracked however and would escape his confinement, join the Mahdi Army and commandeer the liberation of Najaf in the second battle for the holy city. Later on, he would co-found and lead Asa’ib Ahlul Haqq and partake in fights against the Zio-Imperialists all over Iraq. The US-‘Israeli’-Saudi formation of Daesh and the 4th Generation Warfare against the Syrian Arab Republic prompted the Sheikh to form Harakat Hizbullah al-Nujaba and thus become a major player in the thwarting of Empire Judaica’s designs on our region. None other than legendary Hizbullah architect Hajj Imad Mughniyeh (R.A.) personally trained Al-Kaabi in military affairs and none other than equally legendary Hizbullah Commander Muhammad “Abou Issa” Issa (R.A.)–one of the martyrs murdered by ‘Israel’ in Quneitra in January ’15–advised HHN and guided its fighters to victory in the Baghdad Belt. Let it be known that the Hajj Imad Mughniyeh School of Fighting is prosperous and glorious in the land of Imam Hussein’s (A.S.) martyrdom and Sheikh Akram al-Kaabi is its greatest teacher! Lest we forget that IRGC Quds Force Commander Qassem Suleimani loves the Sheikh like a son and has also been intimately involved in making HHN the formidable liberationist force that it is.

Imam Hussein’s (A.S.) legacy is in safe and capable hands with Sheikh Akram al-Kaabi. This is what drove me to shout the firebrand Mouqawamist hero out on “Ornaments Adorning Us”, an ode to the martyrs of Lebanon, Iraq, Iran and Syria who gave their lives in the struggle against Zionism and Takfirism. And please allow me to say, if we were raised on the blessed sands of Karbala instead of in Western ZOG capitals (New York City and London) where we utilize the artistic gifts ALLAH (SWT) gave us to liberate our people from mental slavery and support our homelands, I have no doubt that we’d be soldiers of the Sheikh and what an honor it would be to do battle for and with him. Striking Star Salute ya habibi Akram. May you live long and resist in the name of Aba Abdallah (A.S.) and we will do the same. #EternallyHusseiniComingSoon #HipHopHizbullah #MaddCold #HusseiniDayMay25th #LabaykahYaAkram #LongLiveIraq #LongLiveHarakatAlNujaba

by Jonathan “Madd Cold” Azaziah

With “Eternally Husseini” now just 47 days from its release, and in the aftermath of the Khan Sheikhoun chemical weapons false flag attack and the Trump regime’s subsequent illegal attack on Al-Shayrat Airbase in Homs, the time couldn’t be more perfect or apt to release the next piece of genius promo artwork for the album by the invaluable and noble Mohammad Hamza of Intifada Street: Syrian President Dr. Bashar al-Assad. It has become a talking point in the alternative media and even the Resistance Camp over the years that the Zionist war on the Syrian Arab Republic is not about Assad. But this is wrong. Very, very, VERY… WRONG. Fact of the matter is, at the root of Zion’s attempts to destroy Syria are the desire to overthrow this individual, Assad, and the strategic necessity of World Parasitism to replace him with someone who is not going to resist US-‘Israeli’ hegemony but comply with it, facilitate it and happily serve it.

Indeed, it this individual, Assad, who outright rebuked all attempts by the Zio-Imperialists and their regional puppets to convince him to transform Syria into a NATO vassal. It is this individual, Assad, who, despite the most ruthless pressures from the US, UK and French ZOGs, refused to abandon the longstanding Syrian policy of giving game-changing weaponry to the resistance organisms in Lebanon and occupied Palestine and instead INCREASED those arms supplies to historic levels. It is this individual, Assad, who refused to surrender the occupied Golan Heights to ‘Israel’ and instead established a Mouqawamist infrastructure alongside Hizbullah, Iran and the Iraqi Islamic Resistance to retake that region from the Zionist interlopers. It is this individual, Assad, who has not abandoned the Islamic Republic of Iran but has rather taken the Syrian-Iranian alliance to new heights. The same can be said for the Syrian Arab Republic’s bond with the Russian Federation, which has also become stronger under the leadership of Assad. It is this individual, Assad, who slammed the despicable “Arab” regimes for their collaboration with ‘Israel’ during the 2006 July War, labeling them “half-men” and tripling down on his support for the Lebanese Islamic Resistance of Hizbullah. And it is this individual, Assad, who shot down the prospect of a Saudi-Qatari-Turkish oil pipeline running through his nation, alternatively opting for the Islamic pipeline that would link Syria, Iraq and Iran and bring free oil and gas to the peoples of each respective nation.

Like Imam Hussein (A.S.) defied Yazid (L.A.) on the sands of Karbala on Ashoura in Muharram 681 and saved Islam, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has challenged the Yazid (L.A.) of this age, i.e. Empire Judaica, and saved Syria. And it is because of his bravery, steadfastness, dignity and honor that I salute him and all of Syria in my latest anthem for the Syrian Arab Republic and the record’s 3rd single, “Long Live Syria III (Our Backbone)”, an absolutely blistering song over one of Iron Galaxy’s flyest and most kinetic beats on the album. Nothing says “Eternally Husseini” like putting your life on the line to defend your family, your people and your nation from foreign aggression. And Assad, the Lion of Damascus, is doing exactly that. So from Husseini to Husseini, in graphics and music, we shall defend him and shall continue to, with ferocity, ’till all of Syria is liberated from Takfiri terrorism, Zionist occupation and Western destabilization. LONG LIVE ASSAD! And anyone who doesn’t like it?! TOUGH! #EternallyHusseiniComingSoon #HipHopHizbullah #MaddCold #HusseiniDayMay25th #LongLiveSyria #LongLiveAssad #LongLiveTheSAA

by Jonathan “Madd Cold” Azaziah

“Eternally Husseini” is now just 46 days away from release!

And since today marks 37 years after one of the most prolific revolutionary minds of the Arab-Islamic world was murdered in cold blood by the US-‘Israeli’-Saudi-backed tyrant Saddam Hussein, it is the perfect occasion to release the next masterpiece of my genius-artist comrade Mohammad Hamza’s “Eternally Husseini” series: Ayatollah Sayyed Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr. This great Iraqi Shahid, a man whose stature reduces planets to dust and suns to fragments, was abducted from his home–where he had been kept locked up on house arrest for months solely for his WRITINGS in support of Iran’s Islamic Revolution–on April 9th, 1980. He was then beaten, tortured and subsequently executed when Saddam’s thugs hammered a nail into his head. The Sayyed was also forced to watch his sister, Sayyeda Amina “Bint Huda” Haidar al-Sadr (R.A.), a towering Islamic scholar in her own right, get brutally murdered right before his very eyes. But what the Yazid-like despot Saddam and his Zionist masters failed to grasp is that someone like Sayyed Baqir al-Sadr is impossible to kill. For the legacy that he left was immortal. Among his students were Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, Sayyed Abbas Moussawi (R.A.), Sheikh Na’im Qassem, Sayyed Hashem al-Haidari and many others from Hizbullah and the Iraqi Resistance. It was this great Iraqi Shahid who wrote the constitution for the Islamic Republic of Iran. His critiques of both Western “socialism” and capitalism are rivaled by few not only in our region or even the Global South but the entire planet. Just as much as Imam Khomeini (R.A.), he is a godfather of Mouqawamah regionwide and the Muhammadi-Husseini blood which once ran through his veins was honored with his every deed.

All around us, we see the essence of Ayatollah Sayyed Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr–a personality of such unique brilliance that he was already giving lengthy lectures on the Holy Qur’an, the virtues of Ahlul Bayt (A.S.) and Islamic history at merely 10 years old–guiding our people to victory. He is depicted here with the Zuliqar Mic-Sword because his words, both when spoken and written, were (and remain) as devastating as Imam Ali (A.S.) when he wielded the legendary two-pronged blade against Khaybar and the other oppressors of Muslims. I quote him to open up the album’s ode to Iraqi unity, “We Are One Hand”, and carry his example in my soul and in every bar I pen. I pray, o’ Shahid, o’ Sayyed, o’ champion, o’ Ibn Hussein (A.S.), that our humble efforts honor your blessed, heroic sacrifice; I pray, with all my being, that we do justice to the concept of “Eternally Husseini” in just a fraction of the manner that you did. Insha’ALLAH khair ya Rab. Rest in eternal peace and power habibi Sayyed Muhammad Baqir. Iraq still has breath in its lungs today because of your sanctified blood. #EternallyHusseiniComingSoon #MaddCold #HipHopHizbullah #HusseiniDayMay25th #LongLiveIraq #SayyedBaqirAlSadrLives #WeAreOneHand

by Jonathan “Madd Cold” Azaziah

The countdown to “Eternally Husseini” continues on with a vengeance! Just 43 days away now and Iron Galaxy and I cannot wait to share it with y’all!

And who really represents Imam Hussein’s (A.S.) courage, patience, steadfastness, love for Islam, compassion for humanity, truthfulness and commitment to justice in this age like Nigeria’s Sheikh Ibrahim Yaqoub al-Zakzaky? We now stand at 16 months since the Zionized, Westoxified, Saudi-bought Nigerian regime carried out the Zaria Massacre and unlawfully threw the Sheikh and his wife Sayyeda Zeenat into a prison cell. 16 months that “The Ummah” has been silent. 16 months that the “human rights activists” have been silent. 16 months that the “Palestine Solidarity Movement” has been silent. But not us though! Our tongues and our pens still cut through propaganda for the Sheikh and will continue to do so, ruthlessly, until he is liberated! Beautifully rendered here by none other than Intifada Street art-marksman Mohammad Hamza, Sheikh Zakzaky is mentioned on numerous “Eternally Husseini” songs and has an entire track, “Silence On The Sheikh”, dedicated to him and the struggle of the Nigerian Shi’a for their rights. “Silence On The Sheikh”, which features the remarkable lyrical gifts of Yusuf Abdul-Mateen Trombly of Blak Madeen, Rafiqi Green and Khanverse KV, not only highlights the sacrifices of the Zaria Martyrs and the saintliness of Sheikh Zakzaky, it’s also an anthem of Islamic unity–something we need so desperately in this time of Saudi-Wahhabi assertiveness and weaponized Takfirism. I said it when the joint dropped last year and I’ll say it again now: It’s the most wonderful thing I’ve ever done in my 17 years on the microphone.

Sheikh Zakzaky famously said that truth, reason and good conduct are the Islamic Movement of Nigeria’s (IMN) only weapons against despotism and that is exactly why he’s depicted here with the Zulfiqar Mic-Sword. For whether one spits bars of truth in the face of the Jewish-dominated-and-corrupted music industry, or speaks words of truth to an unjust ruler in defense of one’s people, culture and history, they are both equivalent to Imam Ali (A.S.) swinging his legendary two-pronged blade to safeguard our Prophet (S.A.W.W.) and our Deen. We are saddened by the globe’s silence on Zakzaky’s plight and the fate of the Zaria Martyrs. We are not however saddened into submission. Rather, we are saddened into fury. And through the paintbrush, the pen, the piano, the percussion and the poem, we will rage onward ’till the Sheikh, his Queen and all the IMN political prisoners are freed. Rage is our language ’till we are like Zakzaky and bring the most elevated honor to our eternal master: Imam Hussein (A.S.) Free Zakzaky and free him IMMEDIATELY! #EternallyHusseiniComingSoon #MaddCold #HipHopHizbullah #HusseiniDayMay25th #FreeZakzaky #LongLiveZakzaky #JusticeForZariaNow

by Jonathan “Madd Cold” Azaziah

For everybody asking, yes, Ziobook permanently disabled my account. The Orwellian thought crime charges were “support for violent organizations”–presumably Hizbullah, Ansarullah and the Iraqi Islamic Resistance–as well as “violations of community standards”–presumably my writings on the conspiracy against the Syrian Arab Republic and my ruthless criticisms of ‘Israel’/Zionism/Jewish supremacy/Takfiri-Wahhabism/Liberalism/etc. What Zuckerscum and his merry band of hasbaranik troll-rats should know though is that our struggle for the liberation of humanity from the clutches of Empire Judaica extends far beyond the confines of this platform and coward-moves like blocks and deletions aren’t going to silence us. Not now. Not ever. Iraqis in particular are comprised of much harder stuff than that. We’ve chewed up more than a century of Rothschild-financed Imperialism and spit it back out like it was badly cooked masgouf and kept on trucking. Navigating the digital battlefield is a cakewalk. Spread the word. I’m back muhfuckaz.

by Jonathan “Madd Cold” Azaziah

“Eternally Husseini”, my fifth album but the very first with my dear brother and gifted super-producer Iron Galaxy, drops in 28 days! Yes ladies and gentlemen, there are no delays and we are moving full-speed ahead!

With that outta the way, and since the following revolutionary giant has been back in the news lately with his unfortunate disqualification from the upcoming Iranian election, it’s time to share the next piece of Intifada Street founder and graphic artistry wizard-warrior Mohammad Hamza’s ongoing “Eternally Husseini” promo series: Dr. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. I dedicate an entire song to The Good Doctor on the album, bluntly and appropriately called “We Love You Mahmoud!” To call the man a hero, an inspiration, a legend, a glory, a gift or a gem would all be criminally understating it… Hence why it took me a whole track to pour my heart out for this modern-day saint whose support for the Lebanese Islamic Resistance helped win the July 2006 War; whose backing of the Iraqi struggle against the American-Zionist occupation helped us prevail over the invasion; and whose unlimited assistance to the Palestinian Resistance, especially Islamic Jihad, helped inflict a humiliating defeat on ‘Israel’ during Operation Pillar of Cloud in 2012. Also, lest we forget that large chunks of humanity woke up under Ahmadinejad’s tenure as the Islamic Republic of Iran’s president from 2005 to 2013 because of his fearless confrontation of the two greatest myths prevailing in geopolitics today: The official 9/11 story and the official “Holocaust” narrative. If leaders in the Arab-Islamic world today had a thimble, nay, A THIMBLE OF A THIMBLE of Ahmadinejad’s courage, compassion and commitment to True Islam, the “Arab Spring” never would have come to fruition, ‘Israel’ would no longer exist and the Empire would have LONG been ejected from our region. Same wisdom applies to all these “Anti-Zionist” frauds who claim that they oppose the usurping Judaic entity but won’t touch 9/11 truth or “Holocaust” revisionism with a 10,000-foot pole because they fear what Jews may think of them. Cowards! Damn cowards, the lot of ’em!

Thank God though for Dr. Ahmadinejad, a champion of the poor and the oppressed and a luminary of the Islamic Revolution whose Mouqawamistic example lights up the sky like Imam Reza’s (A.S.) shrine in Mashhad on the darkest of cloudless nights. The Good Doctor is everything “Eternally Husseini” is meant to represent and infinitely more. He may not be able to run for the Iranian presidency again but it’s most certainly safe to say that he is the president of our hearts and will be so until we meet all of our martyrs on the other side. Labaykah ya Ahmadinejad!! #EternallyHusseiniComingSoon #HusseiniDayMay25th #MaddCold #HipHopHizbullah #LongLiveAhmadinejad #LongLiveIran #WeLoveYouMahmoud

by Jonathan “Madd Cold” Azaziah

“Eternally Husseini” drops in a mere 25 days! We pray that y’all are as amped as Iron Galaxy and I are for the release!

And since today also marks the birthday of Abou Fadhl al-Abbas (A.S.), the tireless lion who took arrow after arrow from the tyrant Yazid’s (L.A.) shaytanic army to defend his brother Hussein (A.S.), the third Imam of Shi’a Islam and the Master of Martyrs, on the sands of Karbala, Intifada Street founder and my ridiculously gifted brother Mohammad Hamza’s next promo piece for the album is abso-defo in order: Iraqi Islamic Resistance legend and Imam Ali (A.S.) Brigade Commander Ayyoub Faleh al-Rubaie, better known as Abou Azrael. This hulk-like, happy-go-lucky Mighty Mesopotamian Moujahid is a one-man wrecking crew against Takfiri terrorist filth. Wielding everything from handguns to heavy artillery, axes to swords to his bare hands, Abou Azrael has single-handedly eviscerated more than 1,000 Wahhabi Khawarij and has led the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Units to a plethora of victories in the battle against the US-‘Israeli’-Saudi-created scourge of ISIS. Prior to his championing of the Anti-Takfiri cause, he was known for his tenacity on the battlefields of southern Iraq where he combated the American-Zionist occupation, saving many Iraqis from the invaders and preventing our precious holy cities of Kufa, Karbala and Najaf from falling into the hands of Earth’s Most Evil.

I shout him out by name on my track “How The Hooks Hook”, an exceptionally funky (but merciless) joint that dissects the Zionists’ false paradigm known as the “Clash of Civilizations”. Just as Hazrat Abbas (A.S.) safeguarded Imam Hussein (A.S.) himself, Abou Azrael safeguards the Husseini nation of Iraq! There are most certainly other Iraqi Mouqawamist personalities who embody Imam Hussein’s (A.S.) essence as well as the fierce concept of “Eternally Husseini”, most prominently Sayyed Hashim al-Haidari and Harakat Hizbullah al-Nujaba chief Sheikh Akram al-Kaabi (who is depicted in previous promo artwork), but there ain’t NOBODY who ***FIGHTS*** for Aba Abdallah (A.S.) and Iraq quite like Abou Azrael. He is indeed as Husseini as they come, and to live in the same era as he does, as he fights the Takfiri hordes of Sufyani, is an honor unlike any other. As for the enemies of Ahlul Bayt (A.S.), the subverters of Iraq and the clownish, Judaized “rebel” rappers who would like to see Mouqawamism in Hip-Hop wiped out so they can continue with their CIA/State Dept agenda? All I got for ’em is the Takfiri Slayer’s famous catchphrase…. Talk to ’em Abou Azrael! “3ayna tafroun?! Illa ta7een! (Where are you going to run to?! Only to be crushed [into dust]!)” #EternallyHusseiniComingSoon #HusseiniDayMay25th #MaddCold #HipHopHizbullah #LongLiveIraq #LabaykahYaAbouAzrael #HappyBirthdayAbbas

by Jonathan “Madd Cold” Azaziah

Tick-tock! “Eternally Husseini” is just 21 days away!!

Father of the Arabs. Voice of the Arabs. Smile of the Arabs. Hope of the Arabs. Liberator of Egypt. Sire of the Nonaligned Movement. Unifier of Africa. Gamal Abdel Nasser, rendered here spectacularly and beautifully by the invaluable and incomparable Mohammad Hamza of Intifada Street, was all that and more. Much, MUCH more. The revolutionary legacies of so many are directly linked to Nasser and all that he achieved after throwing off the shackles of the Egyptian monarchy and Rothschild-financed British Imperialism–everyone from Indonesia’s Sukarno to Ghana’s Nkrumah, Congo’s Lumumba to Palestine’s Habash, Libya’s Qadhafi to Syria’s Hafez al-Assad and more. Much, MUCH more. Nasser was larger than life. Larger than reality itself! He was a giant who could walk through solar systems as if he was merely crossing the street and thanks to his unmatched eloquence, unrivaled passion and all-encompassing love for our people, millions upon millions of Arabs and others in the Global South achieved Mouqawamah Consciousness under his watch.

Algeria was freed from French colonialism largely due to Nasser’s backing. Yemen was freed from Saudi-backed tyranny largely due to Nasser’s backing. Oman, where PFLOAG waged a revolution of epic proportions, would’ve been free from the Sultan’s iron grip if Nasser had not been taken from us so soon. Though the usurping Zionist entity’s Mossad poisoned him on September 28th, 1970, and though the last 47 years have seen Sadat, Mubarak, Mursi and Sisi undo much of his impeccable and heroic work, we still have everything that he achieved in the most important notebooks of ANY revolutionary: our hearts and our souls. Nasser’s Free Officers Revolution and subsequent liberationist project of Arab Nationalism were obviously secular but he was still a devout Muslim who wanted the Ummah unified in the face of the ‘Israeli’ enemy. And on this very note, what sticks out most to me, personally, about Nasser’s remarkable life, was how he diligently worked with prominent and brilliant Al-Azhar cleric Sheikh Mahmoud Shaltut to end sectarianism and purge Sunni Islam’s most important religious institution of Saudi Arabia’s pernicious influence. Shaltut passed a binding fatwa that made Jaafari Shi’a Islam as legitimate to Sunnis as their own 4 schools of thought, solidifying that Muslims are one. Nasser had prevailed over Al-Saud’s filth and fitnah.

And it is this beautiful revolutionary action that prompted Iron Galaxy and I to have Hamza include Nasser in the “Eternally Husseini” promo artwork, though I don’t mention him by name on the record. Just as Imam Hussein (A.S.) sought to unify the Ummah through his sacrifice on Ashoura, Nasser sought to unify the Ummah through his deeds even if it meant his life. Indeed, bringing Muslims together–as the Empire is trying to kill you and liquidate the revolutionary movement you established from the bottom up–simply SCREAMS “Eternally Husseini”. We pray that we honor Nasser with this album… Ain’t no doubt that we wouldn’t even be here without him. #EternallyHusseiniComingSoon #HusseiniDayMay25th #MaddCold #HipHopHizbullah #LongLiveNasser