How dangerous is jihadist rap?
by AUX staff
September 12, 2014
When we first heard jihadist hip-hop, it seemed disturbing but ultimately harmless. In the last two weeks, the brutal killing of two American journalists is proving us wrong.
It goes without saying that there are many, many more great Muslim rappers both in mainstream hip-hop and in the more political underground than in this tiny fraction of a fraction of a scene. But as jihadist rap jumps from embarrassing a capellas to breaking news on CNN, it is a genre worth understanding. We explore the genre in the video above.
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