Saudi rap!
Bet you never heard this one before. This is a fairly recent song featuring a Saudi rapper (and a few others) mixing both Arabic and English, and I don’t mean having separate English and Arabic parts like most bilingual songs. Rather the guy uses English words in the middle of Arabic sentences and vice versa, so to understand all of it you would have to speak both.
I don’t know much about the artist, and the only thing I know about the song is that I think it’s called “Wedding”? Not even sure. Found this randomly from one of my Saudi classmates and thought I’d pass it along here for the rap-lovers who are curious as to what Saudi rap might sound like.
Note the beginning is not rap. The background music though is all using Arabic instruments and typical national-style music. So, it’s a very localized rap tune.
[audio:http://www.mideastyouth.com/audio/Wedding-0.mp3]
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PS. We have some other Arabic rap music on our radio player. Check out the Iraqi ones, they are pretty great.
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I don’t know what you mean by rap, buty certainly this is not.
You obviously didn’t bother listening to the rest, which is certainly rap.
Yeah, you are right! Sorry about that!
That was quite funny! And very creative.
I enjoyed it. But as always, I look for meanings wherever I can, in every nook and cranny.
Listen to the music; what do you hear? I hear a rap song, in Arabic and English, with modern rhythms played on more authentic instruments, and harking back to indigenous musical traditions, about a guy getting married whose mind is racked with mixed emotions, which most of us can relate to on our wedding day.
It is a stange mixture of new and old, of innovative and traditional, of univeral and indigenous, of Western and Middle Eastern. And yet, with all the contrasting aspects to it, it comes together, because it evokes in us feelings that we all share.
So perhaps, this rap song suggests that we can come together based on what we all share, while still maintaining the legacy of our cultural identity. Even if we come together economically, technologically, and ideologically, there will still be a need to preserve that part of ourselves that makes us us.
That’s a nice way of looking at it.
does anyone know what the rappers name is
Yea man!
That’s the saudi Rapper Qusai Murad. The song is cool and ot’s a mixtur of the American-Saudi culture
his professional performence and his music rock!! you can watch his videos on Youtube.