Uyghur pop! Enjoy! (via Younghusband and AsiaPundit from this new-to-me East Turkestan based blog)
I found some more videos on YouTube. You can find them after the jump.
This Qaraqalpak video features a bitchin’ solo in the middle over, well, all kinds of stuff.
Here’s another Uyghur one from The Opposite End of China.
And finally, here’s some Azeri rap.
I may have to make this a regular feature…
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That last dude has got some serious eyebrows.
Man, I love the stock footage in “I am a Karakalpak.”
Those three girls call themselves “Shahrizoda”. I don’t exactly know whether they are uyghurs or not, but I’ve heard that they had been to China several times.
By the way, have you heard of a new Uzbek rapper Shokhrukh (orig. Shoxrux). Enjoy!
http://shoxrux.com/
As for the dude with the eyebrows, rapping must be pretty easy with Turkish (Azeri) vowel harmony.
Balky raps in honor of his mom! I love it!
Nice stock footage of the desert formerly known as the Aral Sea there.
these are not uyghur but uzbek girls who had their video shot in China! They sing in Uzbek at least!
It seems to me that they have some kind of accent that I can’t recognize.
Hey guys! whre did you find all of that? That’s all from Uzbekistan, that’s uzbek language. if you are really interested i can transfer couple of clips they are in Uzbekistan but with russian language.
Yes, Thank you, gave me a good mood this evening. Make it a regular feature, please !
pls put some uzbek classic songs, any raced songs from samarkand famous( sharq tarana lari )