Tagged: hip-hop

Doc Jazz

The 10 most significant pro-Palestine Doc Jazz songs

Over the years, Doc Jazz has written, produced and published more than 110 songs online. Most of these can still be found in his Soundclick song repository. Most of these songs have the Palestinian struggle as their main theme, and the majority of these have been produced in one of the many existing musical styles of the West, in the...

South African artists launch collab album ‘AMANDLA INTIFADA 2’

There is some important news on the front of music for the Palestinian cause: South African artists have banded together to record an album in support of the Palestinian struggle named ‘AMANDLA INTIFADA 2’. The album, in some ways, can be seen as a sequel to the album released in 2009 through the collaboration of four South African bands, called...

‘We’re the Dream Team of Arabic hip-hop’ – by Randa Safieh

In this article published in the November edition of Middle East magazine, Randa Safieh talks to some of the artists from the Lyrical Alliance collective, inspired by the legendary ‘Mu’Allaqat‘ poems, which performed in Camden last month. Last month Dash Arts and the Camden Roundhouse presented a collaboration of some of the most prominent Arab hip-hop heavyweights. It was a...