Cultural identities lost and found - Islam and hip hop
This is the first of two articles on the relationship between Islam and hip hop I just did for The Samosa. I tracked down a couple of outstanding artists and documentary filmmakers to find out how people bring together these two rapidly growing global cultures that often appear at odds with each other.
It’s well worth checking out two recent films on the subject: Deen Tight by Mustafa Davis and New Muslim Cool by Jennifer Maytorena Taylor.
Through the research for these articles I discovered a whole new bag of incredibly gifted hip hop artists. More about them later. But for now, I leave you with one of my new favourites - Narcicyst’s tragicomic new release Phatwah:
