Salomé: Straight outta Tehran

It is not often heard about rappers of the Iran - and it is still more rare to hear of the female MCS - but 25 years Salome is used to being an exception. While hip-hop is more popular with the young people of the Iran (of which two thirds are under 30 years), the theocratic regime that controls the release and implementation of music in Iran were never fans. In 2007, rap denounced Government - has played at parties and in cars by urban teens accustomed defiance of the strict laws of the country - as vulgar and obscene. The Minister of culture has promised to stop producing recording studios. These restrictions are yet not enough to silence Salome.

"Any type of problem you face, there is always a solution," first female MC of the Islamic Republic says airily. But for this charming truculent interpreter, it is difficult to imagine what it would admit, it was a problem. Certainly not the fact that there is a formal ban on women singing in public: Salome simply began creating his own tracks in his bedroom. "When I started, he challenges y," is all that it will admit. "But I don't know if they would not still be there for a man."

Living in Iran, a few months ago, Salome was forced to duck and weave around strict regulations set out by its leaders. This fall, she moved to the Japan to study engraving, but is still releasing tracks on his MySpace page and work on an album. The handful of concerts, she sang were Turkey and the Netherlands. But the Salome, says that it seeks not only to a wider public. "I prefer a person to really understand what I say than a thousand people who want to just shake hands and dance".

Salome discovered hip-hop at the age of 15 years. He helped her to deal with the feelings of isolation and alienation in a new culture, after that a childhood spent in Turkey and the Azerbaijan. Yet despite the Turkish language, in English and Farsi (the national language of the Iran), it can only rap in the latter case. Farsi, says, "is a very poetic language." And poetry is very important in Iran, each room has a book of poems by Hafez. "(Hafez was very influential in the 14th century Iranian poet). "Perhaps this is why hip-hop is so popular,"she said."".

Salome wishes to emphasize that not all his songs are political-"I have suffered more, to love, I have never in politics", she said. Yet, it is hard not to imagine that it was his political songs which attracted the attention of the judges of the freedom to create prize, an international award of art that promotes social justice. Although she did not win, the judges praised her courage - courage which is evident in tracks such as waters, written after the elections of 2009 impugned which saw Mahmoud Ahmadinejad retain his presidency amid accusations of vote rigging, creating huge protests that are known as the muddy green gift movement ' t. Her mild voice in contrast to his angry delivery because it rappe: "" one night, they stole my glimmer of hope / if I remain silent, if I still / who will do right? "" Raw style, emphasizing was born of anger, she said, to what happened in the election, even if it did not take the streets to align itself on any part. "I knew nothing about it the green movement." The police beat me. In the streets, I have seen all different types of people - women in sailing to young girls who were high school students. ?

Despite his outspoken attitude, Salome have so far managed to avoid the ire of the Government. She insists that she has never censored his work but try to be careful to ensure the safety of his family and him. She refuses to reveal his true name, saying that she chose Salome after reading the play by Oscar Wilde, because it expresses on the other side of his personality. "Inside me, there was the shy girl who wanted to hide and a rebel - a girl who wanted to scream, and which was Salome angry."

A large part of his occasional tetchiness drift fear play in that she considers the distorted Iran women's image, which, she says, is reinforced by Iranian artists, such as Shirin Neshat, which won the Venice film festival Director's award. "There are a lot of Iranian women artists outside the Iran using this image here women are oppressed to get themselves famous." If you say things, that the Western media want to hear, then they will adopt you. Women are really important in Iran – 60% of University students are women.

"All this propaganda about how people are oppressed will give Western countries more excuses if they are interested in occupying us." I see the Iran as a family - even if the regime governing the country, at least they are Iranian. ?

It is an idea that she voices in the song green grown on this land. "Do not leave our House burn / the fight will not be / we are still a family but they are strangers.". And Scream to let your voice be heard is a diatribe blasting young Iranians who support Israel as a form of rebellion against the support of the Iranian regime of the Palestinians.

After four months in the Japan, however, the Salome let go says that it is in a more representative atmosphere and will focus on his music and art that she hopes will support him, rather than political. "I do not think that I will never stop as I do - if I do not write poetry, I start to feel bad inside."

New music: Theophilus London - the last name of London

Brooklyn-based rapper Theophilus London is a human relationship. Since his first mixtape in 2008, he worked with Mark Ronson, Damon Albarn, Solange Knowles, Dave Sitek and Ellie Goulding. According to his Facebook page, just Kanye sends an e-mail. And his forthcoming album, production of Timez features are Weird These Days (because this summer) of collaborators including Swedish group Teddybears account and, apparently, MIA producer Switch.

Last name of London joined Cleopatra theme in the annals of songs that reference the artists. It has a back stripped opening, before of choral songs creepy and machine gun-style beats create an atmospheric noise for flow calmly detached from London. "Last name, first name Theophilus London," seems to be a lyric unnecessarily of teaching given how much you are going to read it in the coming months.

Bruno March: Tyler, the creator will have to wait in line stab me

"It is not the first to say something like that myself"... Bruno Mars on Tyler, Diss. creator's photography: Eric Theyer/Julian Berman/Reuters/PR

Bruno March responded to a Tyler diss track, the creator, saying that rapper should "wait in line."

These cynical on the leader of the Future odd nose runs the small pot could say he was picking on an easy target when he threatened to "stab Bruno March in his esophagus them" on the trail of the Yonkers breakthrough. But the Hawaiian crooner replied apparently good morale.

March, said: "(Tyler) was waiting in line if he wants to stab me." (Tyler's) certainly not the first guy who said something like me and it will not be the last. ?

Speaking to Spin magazine backstage at a show in New York, March continued: "Oh, man." How you feel about it? Is that coming up. "You pick up some fans and a handful of hate along the way".

Response of March is certainly more measured than his collaborator BoB. Selected Tyler a fight with rapper, referencing his trail aircraft featuring Hayley Williams of Paramore's: "what you think of Hayley Williams?" / Fuck her / I will crash this plane fucking that nigga BoB bundles is. ?

BoB, alias Bobby Ray Simmons Jr left a trail of response in March, appointed future punningly without warning: "I am far too high for you, even watch / the future ain't promising research these recruits / practical target, but I do even pull the trigger plusparce that it is just a waste of bullets.".

Tyler then used the weapon of sarcasm to respond via Twitter: "I have never heard him spit like this." Took me by surprise, cus it's tight. "In a separate tweet, it provides an assessment of the music of BoB:"same rope progression as fucking Love the way you are lying and that a song by Katy Perry.

New group of the day - not 1,022: Lana Del Rey

Nicki Minaj in the body of Lana Turner... Lana Del Rey

Hometown: Lake Placid.

Range: Lizzy Grant (vocals).

Background: We love Lizzy Grant, aka Lana Del Rey, we really do. A lot. But it makes us nervous. Mainly because the phrases that it uses to describe what it is that it is and how it wants to appear, are better than we could manage. It's great when a new law comes with a vision and a fully realized aesthetic, but please leave us with a work to be done. For example, it is the "Nancy Sinatra gangsta" which means that his music "sonic equivalent to a film by Vincent Gallo." It is very neat and seem more still once you hear his music, which is not so fuse as a choice between the 50 schizoid sensual ballads ooze glamour ruin, which is replete with what she calls "strings Frank Sinatra" pop and modern inflected hip hop hip-hop with advice from the high school drama : think Lil Kim if it was produced by Kim Fowley.

We have sent almost 19 tracks by his "people", all the demos with various producers to the bar, and they are divided intriguing as indicated above, with the 24-year-old New Yorker, and sometimes singing London resident is high and girly on songs as a sort of pop Lolita to present his, or low and husky (she is a former jazz singer) on material which suggests an adult woman who has been through the mill and has emerged from the other side, wearier and wiser, with stories to tell. Our immediate response to these diametrically opposed approaches: play their place and do a concept, double-sided as a vinyl version album or a 12-tracker split evenly and that it includes six pop songs, exuberant, uncompromising as the Paris wrote Guy Chambers, that is, young pitched but playful ("you are such a naughty boy, why you taking that Polaroid?") and six things like the Million Dollar Man, which is more Brenda Lee that Britney more slow and painful.

Then, the drive in cars and hundreds of ticket, it offers a third way: the good girl of Laura Palmer with one side dark, with a foot simultaneously in Twin Peaks and the other in Tinseltown. On the former, in the Spectoresque farm, she shoo shoos as a Shirelle on how all boys were "all had girlfriends but I am the one they want" while on the latter point, it is "the trailer park darling" who likes "tough and mean". The melodies are catchy and beats also hang. And references to liquor abound.

If we were in charge - and with our own series of concerts on the road, without a doubt is that a question of time - would opt us for the route concept. How awesome: an album following the passage of a young girl from adolescence to adulthood, a Pet Sounds for the generation of Katy Perry. Grant has already taken the opening and closing tracks: on Puppy Love it chirrups on the pre-rock era of Jackie O and Dick Van Dyke Show with joy dizzy, ditzy, while on Carmen she sounds almost as weathered and worn as Marianne Faithfull on Broken English. We can't wait to hear this album - in fact, in our free time between the discovery of new bands and put on performances, we D & R if you wish.

Buzz: "Pop dark cinematic wrapped in smoky, sensual and glamorous connotations" - thedailytransmission.com.

The truth: Nicki Minaj is in the body of Lana Turner.

Probably to: The idea of the concept of Park.

The least likely of: The next year into a sandtrap with Van Dyke Parks.

What to buy: Nothing is yet - but, seeing as how we will monitor it, you will be the first to know when the album was released.

next to the file: Sky Ferreira, Britney, Julie London, Julee Cruise.

Links: facebook.com/lanadelrey

New band Monday: Airbird.

Diplo accuses MIA "glamorising terrorism."

Diplo on MIA... "She left itself open to attacks." Photography: Jim Dyson/Getty.

Diplo has launched a scathing attack on MIA, accusing the singer and rapper of "glamorising terrorism."

Former producer of the star, who is also her ex-boyfriend, blamed rhetoric policy of MIA for the failure of his last album, Maya.

The pair found mainstream success with the track plans paper, which is an international star of MIA after featuring on soundtracks for Pineapple Express and Slumdog Millionaire, but separated shortly after.

Diplo, aka Wesley Pentz, explained what happened. WWD told him: "it is celebrated after paper planes." She had already thrown the sponge when fate of this recording. Before that she was like, "I am my retirement." I'm going to marry this guy, fuck it. "Then made paper aircraft explode and it was like: ' Oh shit, I Gotta take advantage. I am in fact an artist now. ? ?

But Unattractive followed album Maya does not build on its success and has been eclipsed by a section of the New York Times writer Lynn Hirschberg, who proposed that the supposed radical was a false truffle-fry food.

The album, filled with references to Sri Lankan terrorists, Diplo said: "Maya left open to attack." It is not an artist easy to criticize because it is very left, is progressive, she is a woman. But when it comes to pure, made in the political field, it is zero. It is nothing. I have him at the beginning of the third record, are not political in this... You just can not glorify terrorism, this is not cool... you cannot hide behind this crap. But it is completely... And Lynn Hirschberg he just ate. If it is not, critics would have eaten him anyway because the record was not good.

Diplo recently assisted with the production on Run single of Beyonce worldwide (girls).

Wiz Khalifa: wake up, baken, it search

The skin of the pinup: Wiz Khalifa shows where he stashes his rolling papers, perhaps.

With the strong odour of cannabis radiating from his lanky presence and Kanye West ex model Amber Rose, on his heavily tattooed arms, Cameron Jibril Thomaz looks - and odour - every inch of the star of hip-hop. "Wake up baken." He smiles entering the lobby of his hotel in Austin, Texas. For "wake up" and "cooking" is apparently preferred alternative of the Wiz Khalifa in a bowl of Coco Pops first thing. The young man of 23 years like weeds. He likes. "I like weeds", he confirms, laughing Cheech & Chong escaping from his lips. "It's just my thing." It is a part of the process of my life, and it is definitely part of my process of studio. When I listen to beats, I Gotta quit, and I gotta be high. ?

Khalifa (ce name means "successor" in Arabic) may love the grass, but under the Snoop Dogg-style talk is a young man incredibly canny. After a short contract with Warner in 2007 which resulted in a single minor hit (Say Yeah), he returned to his hometown of Pittsburgh and indie label forum where he released the singles, album and 10 mixtapes for free music for the next four years. Such was the popularity of a cassette, video Kush and JO, it became a # 1 on Twitter-oriented subject. Wiz has grown from a fallen to in the application; last year, he turned down a slit of support with Drake to undertake its own dates U.S. overall with his colleague up-and-comer Yelawolf. Of wake Baken 50-city tour saw the pair play to more than 90,000 people. in February of this year, he sold two dates in London in 20 minutes. "I am become more independent after the situation with Warner," he says now. "I have the experience and I got the know-how to be able to run my business and do the right way and be really proud and happy with it." When I was working my more harshly and I wasn't making love, it is when I really built up my biggest buzz in my career. "I am not frustrated, I was motivated".

Wiz Khalifa

Atlantic Records signed Wiz last summer, perhaps with the suspicion that he could earn a lot of money. They put him directly in the studio with power production Stargate, known for their work with Rihanna, Beyonce and - lolz - S Club 7. The result was black & yellow, an ode to local American football team of the Pittsburgh Steelers Wiz, which has become so ubiquitous, that son of this same Tom Hanks made a remix. A ridiculously propelling three minutes and 47 seconds to harass the percussion and persistent hook, he said "black and yellow" 38 times. We counted. "I think that it is just years of hard work to build this ball and then clubbing them with it," he said of the non-1 and UK No. 5 has sold copies of 4 m and had views of 65 m on YouTube views. "My formula of writing is really natural;" people do not really know why they like the song, but I've programmed to like the song, "he says, well pleased with himself.

With his latest album, Rolling Papers, selling 200,000 copies in the US its first week, there was a suggestion that the approach of the Wiz success is slightly cynical. If this is the case, he could not give a toss. "If Atlantic want to put me in the studio with the No. 1 pop guys, I am not gonna be like, 'I know everything and you say nothing,'", he said. "Black & yellow is always difficult." "I wanted to combine records big with its edgy, raw and I really feel like we've perfected that".

Wiz attributes a large part of his business acumen to his dad. With both parents in the army, Khalifa has spent much of his youth in the United Kingdom, Germany and the Japan. When his parents separated and left forces, he split his time between them. "We have excellent relations, they always have me the choice. they never fought over me, "says. "My father was a great influence on me, because he has always had his own business." He really taught me business sense and how to be a targeted individual, but also how to have fun and to do everything the world around you have fun. ?

It certainly seems to have many alouettes. During his stay in Austin he lopes on the town of sipping, literally, gin (but not juice) with Lil B and Yelawolf. It also is pals with many of the rappers he appeared once up to, including Snoop ("" we have been quite high, oh yeahhhhhh! "")He laughs). As well as smoking grass, Khalifa also loves a tattoo. Loves them. "I love tattoos," he said, pointing to his neck, back, head and torso. It has a total of property, "it is impossible to count", but there are tattoos on all parts of his body, bar his legs, he was about to. "Just try, you know, diversify, man.". I want to be an icon. "An icon you gotta get tattoos in some places," he smiles again. "Nah, an icon that you just do not be afraid." And I do not fear. Some I do, I do because I want to do and because it is completely, 100% me. ?

And with that - model on the arms, gin in hand and money on his mind - he is disabled in an another puff of smoke.

Snoop Dogg considers the launch of the version of hip hop of The X Factor

Smokin' '... Snoop Dogg. Photography: Robert Vos/AFP/Getty Images

Rapper Snoop Dogg announced he wants to produce an x television program of the factor-style to find the next hip-hop star.

Singer, aged 39, who is in the United Kingdom to promote the launch of her 11th album studio Doggumentary, said that although he thought X Factor and American Idol "big shows", he felt there was space on the market for a "straight" televised talent contest conducted for the hood... the people with no argenttalent just "."

He said: "I seek agreement for a network to find America's hottest artists hood."

A asked what he thought of the pop star Cheryl Cole, who has recently signed up to be a judge on the U.S. version of the X factor, Snoop Dogg replied: "it alright." It does its thing. She has a little bit hardcore, a little edgy. ?

Snoop Dogg, former member of the Crip himself is no stranger to the nervousness. In possibly the most politically incorrect press conference, never seen on these shores, the rapper kept journalists gathered in the club of the gentleman private in London Centre waiting for almost an hour, before appear on stage in clouds of smoke and a multitude of skimpily clad at the pole dancers.

Sipping a drink identified a cup of the Union Jack, Snoop Dogg, born Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr, wore sunglasses throughout that he submitted questions.

Earlier this month, the rapper has released a collaboration with Charlie Sheen called Winning, featuring some of the infamous slogans of the troubled actor. "Charlie Sheen was my friend before," said Snoop Dogg. "I do not judge my friends." If it is my friend, it will remain my friend. He called on a session... must be real people maintained by him. ?

In recent years, Snoop Dogg has successfully branched in cinema and television. In London, he insisted that his plans for the domination of the world did not stop there. "I want to open a supermarket chain," he said. "But I shall call Snoopermarkets."

Snoop Dogg played the Forum, London NW5 Tuesday evening.