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A.O.K.

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Omar Mouallem

Mouallem told the Edmonton Sun that he began rapping at age 9. "My mom found my lyrics book and it was just full of all sort of vile lyrics about women and stuff like that. I stopped rapping until I was like, maybe 14." (June 27, 2008). At 14, he began rapping as Poppa Smurf. In "Fake I.D.", he raps about his younger self, "For whatever it's worth, I was Rico Suave/Everyday was an excuse to par-tay in the hallways. I was what you would call a 'wigger'/Busting raps about triggers and figures and Nike kickers." In early 2001 he changed his rap name to Justice?, and then again in 2005 to A.O.K., an acronym of Assault Of Knowledge.

Mouallem began his rap career seriously in Vancouver, British Columbia, where he studied screenwriting and worked as a hip-hop writer for The Nerve Magazine. In 2006 he moved to Edmonton, Alberta. Over three years, A.O.K. worked transiently on his debut album If You Don't Buy This CD the Terrorists Win, which was released on Ill-Legitimate Productions June 10, 2008. The Canadian music blog, Hero Hill, called it, "smarter and more thoughtful than your average rap album."

In 2009, as both a rapper and writer, he made two appearances on the call-in radio show, Skeptically Speaking to discuss skepticism, science and the paranormal. In episode 29, he performed live an unreleased song entitled "Still Stupid." In it, he raps about pseudoscience and pop culture, covering everything from The Secret to 2012 apocalypse theories.

www.assaultofknowledge.com/omar

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