Jordanian rappers Shbash and Rknddn link up on the new single ‘Absar Leish,’ the collaboration foregrounds vocal weight, rhythmic density, and lyrical stamina. The track sees…
Author: Hesham Badr
Hesham Badr
Hesham would rather listen to music than to most people talk and he’s built a life around that truth. For the past three years, he’s been tuned into the MENA music scene, writing, reporting, and swapping stories with the artists behind the sound. When he’s not reading about music, he’s listening to it, and when he’s not listening to music, he's making his own.
A team of Sudanese entrepreneurs, creatives, and activists came together to create Nile Nights, a New York–based cultural platform that taps into Sudanese diaspora communities through…
Egyptian producer Molotof flips three Western hip-hop songs: Dior by Pop Smoke, Low by Flo Rida, and No Church in the Wild by Jay-Z and Kanye…
The Egyptian rapper One Zizo, currently based in Italy, continues to develop his sound and narrative with his latest single ‘Sabah,’ drawing on one of Arabic…
Abyusif closes out the year with ‘Ana,’ a self-reflective release built around a sample from a well-known classical interview featuring Fouad El Mohandes on journalist and…
Do artists make music based on what they’re exposed to? Musicians and songwriters are often asked what kind of music they listen to, yet their personal…
With his genre-fluid approach and instinctive melodic sensibility, Soulja momentarily steps away from the high-energy drill and Afro-trap that define tracks like ‘Charleston’ and ‘Jarra’ to…
MDLBEAST’s party series, Balad Beast festival, has announced their fourth edition, which will take place in Jeddah on January 29th and 30th. Unveiling a star-studded lineup,…
Previously debuted at Brian Eno’s Together for Palestine (T4P) at London’s OVO Arena, raising over $2 million for organizations working in Palestine, the British collective Together…
Ahmed Bahaa, best known as the frontman of Egypt’s long-running band Sharmoofers, steps outside the group framework with the release of his hip-hop single ‘Sahran Bleil’,…
