Vulture Magazine The Michaelmas Issue 2013 | Page 22
A Desert Flower?
How Hip-hop Bloomed
out of Saudi Arabia
Cairo, Bahrain, Qatar, but all of these countries rejected the idea of Arabic hip-hop on
the radio. They were OK with 50 Cent and Jay
Z, but Arabic hip-hop?”Success was found
closer to home. “When I came back to Saudi I approached Mix FM, and it took me six
months to persuade them, but it worked and
al-hamd-illah [thank God] I launched Laish.”
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