CO-WRITER TAMER NAFAR SINGLE-HANDEDLY
CREATED THE PALESTINIAN HIP-HOP SCENE
Nafar grew up in the crime-ridden 'hood of Lod, a poor Israeli city where Arabs and Jews live side-by-side. It's a place rife with violence, crime and drug-dealers, just twenty minutes from metropolitan Tel Aviv and right next to Ben Gurion airport -- the only gateway to the State of Israel.
In this cursed and impoverished place, Nafar reinvented hip-hop in its purest form: rage without hate, social-political awareness without empty materialism, and large audiences without selling out. He imported the style of hip-hop into the Arab-Muslim ghetto and exported it back to the world with an Arabic flavor and a feminist message.
Today, millions of fans worldwide follow Nafar's rap group, DAM, which has released two albums and multiple music videos. Nafar serves as a role model for young Arabs across the globe -- a generation searching for new meanings, both political and personal, in a world where the values of yesterday are quickly disappearing from right under their feet.
In this cursed and impoverished place, Nafar reinvented hip-hop in its purest form: rage without hate, social-political awareness without empty materialism, and large audiences without selling out. He imported the style of hip-hop into the Arab-Muslim ghetto and exported it back to the world with an Arabic flavor and a feminist message.
Today, millions of fans worldwide follow Nafar's rap group, DAM, which has released two albums and multiple music videos. Nafar serves as a role model for young Arabs across the globe -- a generation searching for new meanings, both political and personal, in a world where the values of yesterday are quickly disappearing from right under their feet.