New Osama bin Laden
Video Shooting Up Charts
“Don’tcha Fuck wit Ma Allah” in heavy rotation  
BY BLUDNEY PLUD Daisycutter, CT

ANNA BASIL/AP Osama b. illin'

The latest video from self-styled “gangsta wrapped in a bedsheet” Osama bin Laden appears to be the most successful offering yet from his recent album. Produced and directed by Mullah Omar tha Hit Maker, from 2001’s “Ol’ Dirty bin Laden in da Hizzouse,” the video, “Don’tcha Fuck wit Ma Allah,” is the third single to chart. It is now in heavy rotation on VH1, has been shown many times on that network’s popular Pop Up Video program, and is number one with a bullet on Al Jazeera’s afternoon show, Fundamentalist Dance Party. It is also rumored that a twenty-second clip of the video was aired on MTV at approximately 4 AM Tuesday of last week, but those rumors could not be confirmed at the time we went to press.

Following on the heels of the first two singles from “...in da Hizzouse,” this latest single promises to make it his most successful album ever, and could garner him a nomination for Comeback Artist of the Year.

Not many people would have predicted that when the first video from the album was released. “Wha’ da 911?” suffered from poor production values, and many critics thought it ran overlong, causing viewers to quickly lose interest in the muddy sound mix. The second video, “I Ain’t Dead Yet, Bitch,” showed more promise, but topped out at number 37 on the charts and disappeared after just a few short weeks. “Don’tcha Fuck wit Ma Allah” appears to have staying power the first two singles lacked.

There are some dissenting voices, however. On the East Coast, especially, a few insiders who preferred to remain anonymous commented that “his shit is dead, man, it ain’t fresh.” In response, noted Marin County, California, critic John Walker Lindh was quoted as saying “That Al Qaeda beat is funky stupid, dawg, and Osama is Playa Numbah One. It’s phat, it’s phresh, it’s... uh... it’s phluffy. You can totally dance to it.”

This album marks only the second release for bin Laden since his move to Al Qaeda Mob Records. The first effort, 1993’s “Truck Bombin’ NYC,” failed to generate much critical acclaim, and dropped out of sight soon after its release due to poor sales. Prior to that, it had been a number of years since any product had been put out at all. In the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, bin Laden collaborated with former U.S. president George H. W. Bush (the one that was actually elected) in a series of forgettable albums for the now-troubled label CIA Assassin Records and Wiretaps. Their most notable release was titled “Tha Enemy of Ma Muthafuckin’ Enemy,” and prominently featured Bush, performing under the name Pukeface Killah GH-Dub, with his minor hit, “Nitty Ditty Gritty Big Bird.” Bin Laden’s contribution to that song was the turntable-scratching and chanted background chorus, “Yo, muthafuckah, yo muthafuckah, yo muthafucka, yo.” The only other song from that mix to chart at all was a cover of Tone Loc’s “Funky Cold Medina.”

the commune news wishes to go on, like a blister in the sun. Bludney Plud doesn’t suffer from self-esteem issues, he revels in them. With a revel yell, he cries “More, more, more.”