The hip-hop and underground Egyptian movement began well before the revolution of 2011 to denounce the injustice of the Mubarak regime . Tahrir Square was the conculsion of a long social journey in which even the band of local rappers have reaped the rewards of their protests and their songs have become anthems of the revolution. The ‘underground’ Arab seems to have found the initial message of protest without imitating the American movement , keeping proud roots in the Egyptian culture , mixing sounds and traditions. The fame achieved by some of these bands have also allowed others to come out and many disciplines to finally have a recognition , from street art to skate-boarding , from parkour to freestyle football . The movement underground becomes a set of expressions of personal freedom , in which the real revolution is not just politics , but especially the social and above all the cultural , a generation that for the first time break the rules of tradition, toward a real change . With the military back to power after the SCAF , after Morsi, are these young boys and girls, that feel they have been a little robbed of “their revolution “ to remind the powers that they are the ones to inculcate in the generations to come the seeds of the next revolution
by Gianmarco Maraviglia
The hip-hop and underground Egyptian movement began well before the revolution of 2011 to denounce the injustice of the Mubarak regime . Tahrir Square was the conculsion of a long social journey in which even the band of local rappers have reaped the rewards of their protests and their songs have become anthems of the revolution. The ‘underground’ Arab seems to have found the initial message of protest without imitating the American movement , keeping proud roots in the Egyptian culture , mixing sounds and traditions. The fame achieved by some of these bands have also allowed others to come out and many disciplines to finally have a recognition , from street art to skate-boarding , from parkour to freestyle football . The movement underground becomes a set of expressions of personal freedom , in which the real revolution is not just politics , but especially the social and above all the cultural , a generation that for the first time break the rules of tradition, toward a real change . With the military back to power after the SCAF , after Morsi, are these young boys and girls, that feel they have been a little robbed of “their revolution “ to remind the powers that they are the ones to inculcate in the generations to come the seeds of the next revolution
