hip hop in morocco

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Some weeks ago, I attended a screening for a documentary called “I <3 Hip Hop In Morocco”. At the end of it there was a Q&A session with the man behind the camera and the project, Josh Asen. Although I don’t speak or understand either Arabic or French, I fully appreciated what the documentary was trying to achieve as well as the hip hop heads that represented the kind of hip hop culture that was real to the Moroccan youth. I also came to love the kind of melodies and beats used by H-Kayne and Fnaire.

It’s a pretty tight documentary about “a determined group of Moroccan Hip Hop hopefuls [that] band together to create their country’s first Hip Hop festival, a celebration of music, unity, and free speech”.

If from this I can’t get you to go check it out, just know you’re really missing out.

I really liked it ‘cos it got me thinking about how hip hop culture is translated and tailored/recreated to fit different cultures.  Planet B-boy has portrayed the break dancing communities from different places of the world like France, South Korea, and Brazil. In life, we don’t think too much about the positive impact of hip hop culture and what it means to us and does for us as an individual.

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