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(10 Dec 2011) IRAQI RAP Two young Iraqis have found what might seem like a surprising way of expressing their experiences of growing up amid violence and instability in Baghdad: rap music. After more than eight years in Iraq, the departing US forces have had a cultural as well as a military impact on some of the nation's young people. Twenty-three-year-old college student Noor Edin Nabel and his 20-year-old friend Humam Asaad started creating rap music in 2006, when sectarian violence in Iraq was reaching its height. Asaad says the music provides a spontaneous outlet for some of the things he and his friends were experiencing. "Rap is the language of the heart and of ordinary people. So we have managed to express in rap music all the events that our society has witnessed. We feel the rap lyrics before we sing them," said Asaad. More than 100,000 Iraqi lives have been lost since the US-led invasion in 2003. Violence still occurs frequently in Baghdad, although the city is safer now than it used to be. As the US military leaves, Iraqi troops have taken the place of US soldiers manning checkpoints on the capital's streets. Asaad and Nabel walk to their recording studio along streets still littered with rubble. The pair said they are influenced by famous American rappers and that the purpose behind their songs is to express themselves and the sufferings of the Iraqi people. Nabel - whose rap nickname is "Thug" - said they are proud of what they are doing. "Rap is an old American art. But we have achieved so much (with it). We have succeeded in making rap in our own (Arabic) language," he said. Asaad said he hopes their music will eventually reach out to people beyond Iraq's borders. "I wish I were a famous artist. I hope I will sing under the Statue of Liberty in America. And I hope that Iraqi rap will reach the USA and the whole world," he said. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...