Timz

Offering a virtually nonexistent viewpoint to hip-hop music with his Chaldean heritage, Timz (born Thomas Hanna) burst onto San Diego, CA's local rap scene by simply being himself, an Iraqi-American MC. Fleeing the Iraqi dictatorship and the specific persecution of Chaldeans, his parents migrated from Baghdad to the San Diego-bordering city El Cajon in the '70s before Hanna was born. American urban and Iraqi/Middle Eastern music always appealed to the Chaldean rapper ever since he was a child and was helping run his family's liquor store. His professional musical career mixing...