El Haqed, Morocco's hip hop revolutionary | Torie Rose DeGhett

By dragging the rapper to court for his incendiary lyrics, the state isn't silencing him, it is drawing attention to his workSince the initial popularity of Moroccan rapper El Haqed's incendiary lyrics calling out police corruption and the oppression of the monarchy, he and his music have become one of the dominant public voices of the Moroccan protest movement.Morocco's revolutionary story has been granted a lot less media focus internationally than some of its north African neighbours, partly ...

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