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.
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.
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.
In 2007, TIMZ released the politically charged video for the critically acclaimed single “Iraq.” In less than a week, the controversial music video was garnering national media attention from the likes of MTV News, FOX News’ Hannity & Colmes, Mancow’s Morning Madness, Russian National TV and over 10,000 internet and blog sites.
if you havent checked out the new DJed songs yet, then you should hurry and take a listen because this time next week on thusday may 8th, im taking those down and putting up brand new ones. so hit up my page and comment on the ones there now to let me know what you think
yo what up TIMZ well i dont no if u remeber me but i said whats up to u at the Kanye West Concert, inside on the Floor but ya keep up the good work peace n love
not sure... idk if im going a hundred percent yet because im about to buy the 08 vette ..so will c i dont know if i wanna be spending all this money loll cuz that weekend i need a extra 2gs ill know in a few weeks .. if i go through, u gotta come ill be with all the chargers again
hey wut up timz ...man all im hearin in the streets is timz came out wit this ..and timz came out wit that...wut up wit u nigga ..long time no see when u gunna throw another party dog ..i still remember us ballin up at santee...i miss that shit shit bro...holla back
