2 Rappers from the US plans to go to North Korea to shoot a music video, raised over 10K on kickstar
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[quote]Pacman and Peso have never travelled much beyond the poor suburb of Washington DC where they live. But after a successful internet fundraising drive, the unsigned hip-hop duo will next Saturday embark on a trip, to shoot a video they hope will jumpstart their career, with an unlikely destination – North Korea.
After raising $10,400 from their Kickstarter campaign, the pair will first fly to China and then on to Pyongyang, where they plan to film songs such as “God Bless Amerika” on a party bus.
Neither of them have flown on an airplane. They say they only recently discovered that North Korea was a foreign country.
Comparisons are inevitably being made with Dennis Rodman, the former basketball player whose visits to North Korea resulted in an unlikely friendship with the country's dynastic leader, Kim Jong-un. But Pacman, 19, and Peso, 20, unsigned artists in search of a record deal to lift them out of poverty, are on the cusp of a very different kind of trip.
The story of the rap duo’s adventure could only be forged in a place like Washington, a deeply divided city where separated communities only occasionally overlap. A few months ago, Pacman was walking through his neighbourhood, Congress Heights, when he came across a group of twentysomethings shooting a music video. He struck up a friendship with one of the group, a white, 24-year-old investment banker named Ramsey Aburdene, who has since been managing the pair in his spare time.
Aburdene, from DC’s affluent north-west quadrant, had an acquaintance who happened to be an expert on North Korea. Mike Bassett, 34, is a former Iraq war veteran who was lived for seven years in South Korea, four of them with the US army.
A self-described pacifist, Bassett has become a fixer for people interested in traveling to Pyongyang. A Master's student at American University, he has co-ordinated several cultural exchanges and traveled extensively in the country since restrictions were eased in 2010.
He has arranged the two rappers' flights and visas, and laid the necessary groundwork for their tour. Bassett insists North Korea is misunderstood in the eyes of the west, and says Pacman and Peso will be treated with courtesy. Still, he has felt it necessary to provide the young rappers with some cultural advice, and instructed them to amend some of their lyrics.
An entourage consisting of Pacman, Peso, Bassett and Aburdene, plus other friends, departs next Saturday. At their leaving party in Washington on Thursday, in a bar near Aburdene's house, Peso and Pacman provided well-wishers with an introduction to their debut mixtape. [/quote]
[url]http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/nov/08/washington-rappers-peso-pacman-north-korea[/url]
Dammit, and Justin Bieber was supposed to go there!
Easy money.
[QUOTE]Neither of them have flown on an airplane. They say they only recently discovered that North Korea was a foreign country. [/QUOTE]
Wait what?
Who funds retards like this?
[editline]9th November 2013[/editline]
Can I have $10k???
RAYHLO shoud have made a kickstarter.
Is it dark or that picture has a bad camera?
[sp]Sorry[/sp]
[QUOTE=showtek;42812202]Is it dark or that picture has a bad camera?
[sp]Sorry[/sp][/QUOTE]
woah you're so edgy
And then they were never heard from again.
Next stop......Cuba! :v:
Yo yo chu finna pay me
drop by korea, show 'em luxury
shoot a video, you be my homie
gucci all the way, no time for shi'
Pay me 10,000 on kickstarter now pls.
[QUOTE=FunnyStarRunner;42812237]And then they were never heard from again.[/QUOTE]
They'll be invited by the dear leader to chill in the palace with him.
Recording a video for a song called "God Bless America" in North Korea. Yeah, have fun with that.
[quote] Washington, a deeply divided city where separated communities only occasionally overlap[/quote]
I can think of two such communities pretty easily.
[QUOTE=Rangergxi;42812114]Wait what?[/QUOTE]
this'll end well
Maybe they will be skinned alive
They're so black they're monochrome
[QUOTE=Rangergxi;42812114]Wait what?[/QUOTE]
There are still plenty of poor and undereducated people in the world that know nothing except the small community around them. And more often than not they don't have a grasp on many types of technology.
I was in an airport bathroom probably 8-10 years ago and noticed a little black kid and his father staring at the sink the entire time I was in there. So when I was finished with my business I went and asked them what the deal was, they asked me "how do you turn the faucet on?"
It was one of those automatic ones with infrared sensors, so I waved my hand under it and it turned on. And I kid you not, both of them started flipping shit and freaking out thinking it was some kind of hocus pocus.
[QUOTE=Rangergxi;42812299]They'll be invited by the dear leader to chill in the palace with him.[/QUOTE]
Watch him show up in the video.
Watch them cause mass panic among the people of North Korea as they probably haven't seen anyone that black(or any black people for that matter). Sorry not trying to be racist but its true.
uh
looks like we'll have two more americans in the camps before long
[QUOTE=Rangergxi;42812114]Wait what?[/QUOTE]
I'd bet that it means they weren't aware that North Korea was a country.
To be fair, living in an environment like they did, i don't blame them. Washington is rough and there's a big fat line between 'poor as hell' and 'rich as hell'. The last thing I'd probably know about was a small foreign country.
here's a joke
2 rappers go to NK....they never come back, not because they've been imprisoned for making the great leader frown, but because they like it too much.
[QUOTE=Solomon;42814195]uh
looks like we'll have two more americans in the camps before long[/QUOTE]
yeah i was just thinking that
isn't north korea REALLY keen to stick people in their horrible camps
[quote]the pair will first fly to China and then on to Pyongyang, where they plan to film songs such as “God Bless Amerika” on a party bus. [/quote]
yeah that'll end well you fucking idiots
[QUOTE=Auto Taco;42812269]Next stop......no more stops[/QUOTE]
fixd
[quote]They say they only recently discovered that North Korea was a foreign country.[/quote]
I'm trying to wrap my head around what else they thought it could be.
[QUOTE]former Iraq war veteran[/QUOTE]
what
how can you be a "former veteran"
[QUOTE=Skyward;42814538]I'm trying to wrap my head around what else they thought it could be.[/QUOTE]
A city or something.
[QUOTE=Skyward;42814538]I'm trying to wrap my head around what else they thought it could be.[/QUOTE]
Pretty sure they didn't know of any place called 'Korea' let alone 'North Korea'
[editline]10th November 2013[/editline]
"mah rap Korear is gon' be huge"
Lyrics from the music video:
"Kim Jong Un, no i'm kim jung ill
america to north korea and that's my spiel
i'm black and I rap and i'm blacker than black
god bless america because my raps are more bomb than Iraq"
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