Drop a Jihad on that Wax, Y'all

Houston. It’s a tough town to break into, ‘specially if hip-hop is your game. With so much talent and Chingo Bling to compete with – what’s a spittah to do? We’ll, there’s always talent. But barring that, a gimmick may be your only shot at greatness. After all, it worked for the Insane Clown Possee.

So, if you were, for example, a baggage handler at George Bush intercontinental Airport whose moniker is “The Arabic Assassin,” what might you rap about? Well, 21 year old Bassam Khalaf has an answer for you – write about crashing a plane into a building on September 11, 2005.

"I've been screening your bags for the past six months, and you don't even know it," said Khalaf.

Right. Great gimmick. Cause we all know Bad Boy is just dying to put out wax with lyrics like “My name is Bassam, a one man band, I came from sand, affiliated with the Taliban."

Or how about the charmer: "I live up to the reputation of a crazy suicidal Arabic. You know I'm equipped with the bombs and the grenades, the AK's. Now ... make my day."

Fortunately for both Houston air travelers and Def Jam Records, The Arabic Assasin was fired from his job last week.

"Your authorship of songs which applaud the efforts of the terrorists on September 11th, encourage and warn of future acts of terrorism by you, discuss at length and in grave and alarming detail various criminal acts you intend to commit, state your belief that the U.S. government should be overthrown, and finally warn that others will die on September 11, 2005, are all in violation of every aspect of this directive," wrote TSA's Deputy Federal Security Director Hector Vela in his own rap firing Khalaf. Vela later commented that he wished he had remembered “to call him a douchebag” in the letter.

Khalaf, coming soon to a terrorist no-fly list near you, defends himself by saying that he’s just playing along with a character. "What if I called myself the Mexican Assassin?" he asked Channel 2 News. Our thoughts: you would prolly need to be Mexican to do that.