Muslim rapper take on post 9/11 world

The song has been a massive hit on the internet already, with its video being one of the most downloaded on website MySpace.com.

Actor-turned-rapper Riz MC - real name Riz Ahmed - has established himself firmly as a class rapper , emphasising comedy with his debut single Post-9/11 Blues, a satirical take on the fear people have felt since the attacks.

In his own words....

"I'm throwing up questions rather than answering them.

What I'm trying to do with the song as a whole is talk about the way that there is a post-9/11 industry.

I think quite a lot of the way in which our cultural landscape has been shaped post-9/11 is laughable.

We're so bombarded with words like "fundamentalist", "British Muslim", "beards", "rucksacks", "planes" - this language, and our public symbols, have been invested with new meanings.

What I'm trying to do is investigate that, but in a different way.

I think quite a lot of the way in which our cultural landscape has been shaped post-9/11 is laughable.

I think a branding exercise has taken place. The war on terror; Osama bin Laden as a James Bond super villain - it seems as though the political debate has been packaged in the way you package a product.

Wars are being sold in the way in which lifestyles are sold in glossy magazines.

I wanted to throw up this absurdity, and take this climate of fear to its illogical conclusion."