44th Annual ISNA Convention

[iTz_NoT_Me_iTzZu]

Originally Posted by 580

As salaamu alaikum family,

My name is Five Eighty (580) and I was one of the performers on the open mic session that MYNA had put together for both saturday and sunday night...so here is my official observation of both nights...On Saturday night...the open mic session got started a little late the original time was midnight in the grand ballroom in the hyatt aka "Club ISNA" the entertainment session didnt actually start until 12:45 but alhumdulilah...there was approx 1,000 in attendance was which the entire middle section of the room plus kids sitting on the floor near the stage. The sister in charge did not know exactly what she was doing so instead of putting on the large acts like Amir Sulaiman or Sound of Reason ETC ..she decided to put the novice acts first...which is cool but mind you its about 1am and there is no cd player or sound hook up...except for the house speaker system....there's a long improv show by the sister's brother whih took approximately 20mins...and after his performance the majority of the audience was starting to leave and still myself, J-Seriyus (formerly of MPAC), Ms. Laitifah, Naeem from (Native Deen) Amir Sulaiman, and Liza Garza haven't performed...so brother amir took over and began put the larger acts in front of me and a couple of others was which cool because it was to keep the audience there ...at this point was under 200 people....at last at 2:30am myself and j-seriyus join the stage and did a little verse acapella..and quickly exited the stage because we was tired as well...at 2:30am the audience was down to approximate 40-50 people...A muslim punk band group called "The Kominas"took on the stage at approx 3am...and from what I heard later that night...was that they were playing too loud...they also had 2 lesbian muslim women on stage with them...the women wasn't doing anything lewd to my knowledge but the group was asking to exit the stage after refusing to stop playing loud,,,,and the group began to shout "Pigs are HARAM" to the police and was escorted off the stage...the people that was in attendance got up and left the ballroom and some run out..,...and thats was it for Saturday night...by Sunday..the word had gotten back to ISNA Youth director Iyad Alnachef..and by Sunday Night...Iyad tried to make sure that last night incident wouldnt happend sunday...so he required all acts to audition in front of him...and he was to judge whether they could perform or not...Sunday performances was to start at Midnight but was put on hold until the main ISNA entertainment session had ended...luckily a group called "Turntable Dhrik" had bought 4 turntables, a monitor, and myself and j-seriyus borrowed at smooth wooden sheet for them to breakdance on...Iyad told the breakdancers...that they couldnt breakdance because it was haram for men/women to dance...the group had a emergency meeting to decide whether they will still perform...and they did...at 1am we were told by Iyad that the mics would be cut off at 1:30 am because Iyad tld us they ISNA did not want the kids to miss FAJR ... so we had only 30 mins...at that time I decided not to perform...and to add insult to injury 2 sheiks spoke to the crowd for approximately 10 each...which now its almost 1:20am...which give everyone only 10 MINUTES TO PERFORM...so J-Seriyus went on first...and did 2 songs...meanwhile myself and Tyson of Remarkable Current began to dance in defiance of the ISNA director and then turntable dhirk...did their set...which was extended to 1:50 until Iyad finally cut them off...he was maddddd !!! because during their set ...they had a dj competition that use islamic messages from hip hop songs...like "all Praise Due" by Mos Def and others...and because they were scratching "Allah" and other islamic quotes within their set...he wanted them off...so as everything was quiet...I said loudly" THEY DON'T LIKE HIP HOP",,,and kids from the audience began to approach Iyad and express their feelings...about the entertainment session being cut short...and about how hip hop doesn't get any respect at ISNA...and how they wanted muslim hip hop and their voice to be heard...Young G (jihad) manager suggested that we stop talking to IYAD and start our own entertainment session in the lobby of the hyatt...so thats what we did..so me (580), tyson, naeem of native deen, the sound of reason, project 26, Ms. Laitfah, J-Seriyous,Young G (Jihad)..with acoustic guitars provided by project 26 and sound of reason...had our session in the lobby in front of approx 200 siting teens...and Ms. latifah emceed the event and we had a positive jam session...with Iyad in attendance...and this was videotaped and hopefully make to the internet...soon...insha'Allah...because it was inspiration and beautiful....well thats my take on ISNA 44TH ANNUAL CONVENTION entertainment session...

Salaams,

Five Eighty

www.deenmusic.net

Lesbians? Wha? Please elaborate

[MuslimZ]

Originally Posted by Jetmir

lol whats up with this: YouTube - Shocking Update from the 44th Annual ISNA convention

Some fool spreading fitna. Pay that brother no mind.

Alhamdulilah ISNA was a great success by many accounts; though there was much to be improved on. I'm sorry to hear that the various artists came away with a negative impression of the entertainment session. I have a funny feeling, insha'Allah, the proper people were informed of what happened, and that we will not see a repeat of this kind of disrespect in the future. Trust me on that.

[MuslimZ]

Originally Posted by hijabihoodlum

myna rocks.

ameen .

[580]

Originally Posted by iTz_NoT_Me_iTzZu

Lesbians? Wha? Please elaborate

There isnt much too elaborate on...I wasn't there for their performace or the punk band either...this is what I heard after we left the stage..regardless they performed in front of maybe 20 people...so its insignificant...we need to focus on the positives like the sunday open mic session that we have video for

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOLG75xd9fM

Salaams,

Five Eighty

[IbnMardhiyah]

I just got the ISNA newsletter today via regular mail.

I cant beleive they actually printed my artwork.

[Deel]

Salamulaikum,
...so i've been asked by a certain group/band who performed at isna that i not release any videos of them right now. i will, just not yet. they're planning on releasing a couple of new songs soon inshaAllah and so they dont want any going around at the moment.
sorry! i know i said i'll post some videos up!


if you have bayshens, you will see them soon iA