Hip Hop has saved many a person, especially from a life of crime. When it comes to unrest in the Middle East, the culture may have saved another person from a life of violence.
MC Gaza recently spoke to Global Post about how Hip Hop saved his life and why he chose to become a rapper instead of participating in jihadism. He also details how he got into the culture, citing Eminem as a big inspiration.
“At first I started doing it as a kind of challenge, and then I found I couldn’t stop,” he told the website. “People here think that rap is haram [un-Islamic]… They think that we are acting like the West.”
He also states how he has used Hip Hop for good, attempting to show the perils of his home country.
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“Rap talks about anything you see that is wrong and explains why that is wrong,” he explained, “I want to break the whole country that broke me.”
Gaza recently released a song/video called “My Extraordinary Homeland,” which details the struggle and hypocrisy of warfare in Israel. View it below:
