Saudi Hip-Hop, The WaPo & NYT Foreign Features

Last year, this particular FBNY editor wrote an article on Israeli and Palestinian hip-hop for Slate. That experience made reading today’s Washington Post article on one of Saudi Arabia’s first hip-hop groups especially painful to read. In a country where men and women are forbidden from mixing and the concept of “nightclubs” or, hell, live music in general does not exist, the members of Dark2Men suffered:

The feeling of being under siege and misunderstood by society has turned the group’s members into close friends, they said.

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