Long before streaming platforms, short-form algorithms, and industry-backed playlists pushed Arabic hip-hop toward mainstream visibility, rap culture across the Gulf region existed almost entirely ...

Digging for Gold is HYPEBEAST’s monthly playlist series that highlights regions across the world and the genres that come out of them. By putting together a mix of essentials and hidden gems, we hope ...

In a compelling interview on Hard Knock Radio, host Davey D speaks with Suhel Nafar, a visionary in Arab hip-hop and head of Empire Records’ West Asia, North Africa, and Diaspora division. As a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The sounds and beats of Arabic hip-hop are being introduced to U.S. audiences through a new Universal Arabic Music (UAM) project ...

Commentator Aaron Freeman recently spent a couple of hours watching Arabic hip-hop videos. He says that hip-hop is an American form, but that U.S. rappers might do well to learn a lesson from their ...

BEIRUT (AP) — In a red-lit bar in Beirut, Nasser Shorbaji and Marwan Alameh try not to knock the microphones over while laughing during the broadcast of their weekly radio show. Moments later, they ...

Young Arab hip-hop artists are borrowing the sounds and styles of American rappers in order to express their experiences. But the message of the songs is strictly their own. Some Palestinians in the ...

Thousands of teenagers swoon — Arabs and Jews alike — as Tamer Nafar takes the stage. He's a member of Israel's Palestinian Arab minority, a founding member of the Palestinian hip-hop group DAM — and ...

The first few seconds of Marwan Moussa’s song “3AMEL EH” open with an interaction between the rapper and a voice that seemingly belongs to his therapist. The therapist can be heard asking the ...

Omar Offendum is a Syrian-American hip-hop artist who was born in Saudi Arabia, raised in Washington D.C. and living in Los Angeles. His solo release, “SyrianamericanA,” showcases the unique blend of ...

In a compelling interview on Hard Knock Radio, host Davey D speaks with Suhel Nafar, a visionary in Arab hip-hop and head of Empire Records’ West Asia, North Africa, and Diaspora division. As a ...