Gaddafi's Zenga Zenga hip-hop remix watched by million YouTube viewers

Almaty. March 1. Kazakhstan Today - Gaddafi's Zenga Zenga hip-hop remix has been watched by more than a million people on YouTube, Kazakhstan Today reports.

Gaddafi has long been known for his flamboyant fashion and rambling rhetoric. But as opposition forces have taken control of much of Libya, Gaddafi's public appearances have gotten increasingly aggressive and bizarre, The World reported.

Last week he delivered a nearly hour-long speech, replete with fist pounding and threats to clean Libya inch by inch, street by street.

Now a hip-hop remix of the speech has gone viral on the Internet and has become a sort of anthem of the Libyan opposition. And if that alone doesn't sting Gaddafi, here's another twist: the DJ who made the song is from Libya's arch enemy.

This Israeli-fuelled revolution is no Mossad spy operation. It's the brain-child of 31 year old musician Noy Alooshe.

"This is amazing. I am number 10 most viewed musicians in the world. And number one in Israel. It's amazing," Alooshe said.

It was all premeditated. When Egyptians started taking to the streets, Alooshe would sit on his couch in his small Tel Aviv apartment and watch for good clips he could turn into hip-hop mashups.

He watched Mubarak's televised speeches, but thought they were too monotone. Then Gaddafi gave a quick speech from under an enormous umbrella: Good visuals, but not much else. And then, on the evening news last Tuesday, Alooshe watched Gaddafi's fiery balcony speech.

"I will call upon millions from desert to desert," threatened Gaddafi. "We will march to purge Libya inch by inch, house by house, alley by alley."

Alooshe saw the speech, transfixed. "And it was like, before the mixing, it was funny and looks like a parody," he said. "When he (Gaddafi) raises his hand like he is at a party, and his clothes look like Lady Gaga from the Arab world."

"It was like a dance track," Alooshe said. "When I first listened to it, zanga zanga, der der, like someone put a tempo and Gaddafi said, zenga zenga. 'Okay, it's funny in the first place,' I thought. 'Let's make it more funny. And let's make it something that people can dance or sing to.'"

And so Zenga Zenga - literally "alley by alley" - was born.

Alooshe mixed the speech with the beat from Hey Baby, the hit song by American hip hop artists Pitbull and T-Pain. He uploaded two versions of the video - one without go-go dancers, for conservative Muslim viewers - and sent the link to Arab websites, including Al Jazeera's Facebook page and the Twitter feed of a Libyan youth movement.

Within hours, he says, it was all over the Arab world. Even the official Facebook page of the Libyan opposition reposted the clip.

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