Outlandish - Guantanamo (Video)

What this video is

Released in 2002 amid intense international debate over the United States' detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, this video represents one of the earliest high-profile European pop-rap articulations of opposition to post-9/11 detention policy. Outlandish — a trio of Danish-raised men of Moroccan, Pakistani, and Honduran/Cuban descent — occupied a unique cultural position: commercially mainstream enough to…

Why it matters

A landmark document of early-2000s European conscious hip-hop, 'Guantanamo' demonstrated that the Danish multicultural hip-hop scene could produce internationally resonant political statements. It preceded by years the wider academic recognition of European Muslim hip-hop as a distinct genre…