For more than a generation, hip-hop has drawn kids from neighborhoods around the world into the musical intersection of street culture and political consciousness. Now that common ground is making a mark in one of the globe's most conflict-ridden areas: the Arab world. Tracing the [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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I’m all for rap as a dissident art form. It really bugs the hell out of me, though, that people can’t develop their own local music forms of dissent. Why is it the world just consumes and consumes US pop culture and won’t, or can’t, come up with their own original thinking? Like Africa did, for example?
Arab rap? Snore.
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