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14 tracks | 49 minutes
Released May 2006
on V.I.G. Productions
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 00:22 Intro lyrics BUY MP3 00:22 Intro lyrics "GIFT MP3" 00:22 Intro
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:48 Open For Business lyrics BUY MP3 03:48 Open For Business lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:48 Open For Business
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:31 Public Enemy No. 1 feat. Spice 1 lyrics FREE 04:31 Public Enemy No. 1 feat. Spice 1 lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:31 Public Enemy No. 1 feat. Spice 1
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:27 Iraq lyrics BUY MP3 03:27 Iraq lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:27 Iraq
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:11 Ride With Me feat. Randall lyrics BUY MP3 04:11 Ride With Me feat. Randall lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:11 Ride With Me feat. Randall
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 01:21 Interlude lyrics BUY MP3 01:21 Interlude lyrics "GIFT MP3" 01:21 Interlude
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:56 You Like It feat. Pearl lyrics BUY MP3 03:56 You Like It feat. Pearl lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:56 You Like It feat. Pearl
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:21 Hey Remix lyrics BUY MP3 04:21 Hey Remix lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:21 Hey Remix
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:36 Because of You feat Joshua Franks lyrics BUY MP3 03:36 Because of You feat Joshua Franks lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:36 Because of You feat Joshua Franks
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:12 Doin' It Big lyrics BUY MP3 04:12 Doin' It Big lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:12 Doin' It Big
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:18 Put It On The P.O.L.E. feat TQ lyrics BUY MP3 04:18 Put It On The P.O.L.E. feat TQ lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:18 Put It On The P.O.L.E. feat TQ
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:45 Coming Along lyrics BUY MP3 03:45 Coming Along lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:45 Coming Along
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:28 Triv feat. Sick Beav lyrics BUY MP3 04:28 Triv feat. Sick Beav lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:28 Triv feat. Sick Beav
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:27 Closed lyrics BUY MP3 03:27 Closed lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:27 Closed
Shhhh. The Feds are watching.... TIMZ blends hip hop music with his Middle Eastern heritage and puts his life on display as an Iraqi-American born and raised in San Diego. Features on the album include the legendary Spice 1, TQ, E-Low, Sick Beav and more
Bio / Background
On his fiery debut CD, TIMZ—aka Tommy Hanna, an American born rapper of Chaldean and Iraqi descent--gets right up in our faces, mixing explosive, Middle Eastern tinged beats with incendiary rhymes in an effort to shatter those ugly stereotypes that have plagued people who look like him since 9/11 and the start of the Iraq war.
Make no mistake, the title of his powerful, outspoken and heavy grooving 14- track collection—a nominee for Best Hip-Hop Album at the 2006 San Diego Annual Music Awards—says it all: the San Diego born and bred artist is Open For Business. “The concept of the album is a day in the life,” TIMZ says. “That’s what I am, open for business all the time. I am at work and if I wasn’t at work I was at school and if I wasn’t at school I was in the studio rapping.
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TIMZ is on an intense mission to help Americans understand that Chaldeans, who are Catholic by faith, date back to Iraq since the ancient times of Mesopotamia and the flourishing times of Babylon. “The only remnants from that Iraq and the Iraq that we see now are the rivers. “That’s it, everything else has changed,” he says.
“They lump us into one big group of Bin Ladens and Saddam Husseins walking around. But we’re hard working people who love this country.”
While TIMZ—a recent graduate of University San Diego-- has been the pride of his hometown’s 20,000 Chaldean community for years, the reaction to “Iraq” across the country is giving him some well deserved cred as a national artist.
Earlier in 2006, he and manager Alvin Shamoun, both principals in TIMZ’s independent label V.I.G. Productions, sent out CDs to 300 college stations across the country; within days, over 280 of those were putting the song into regular rotation. “Iraq” was #4 Most Added on the CMJ College Pop Radio Stations Chart, and hit #1 on 11 reporting stations everywhere from New York to California to Florida.
In 2007, TIMZ released the politically charged video for the critically acclaimed single “Iraq.” In no time, the controversial music video was garnering international media attention from the likes of MTV News, FOX News’ Hannity & Colmes, Mancow’s Morning Madness, Al Jazeera, Russian National TV and over 10,000 internet and blog sites.
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AwesomeJyoz wrote on December 31, 2007
First heard his song Iraq on MTVu, his music is an awesome blend. He's an Iraqui-American.
Thanks dude this is amazingAlawe wrote on September 15, 2008
Shukran 7abebe el album e7abul, eganen, From Iraq, Alawe





