This month’s mix goes heavy! 47 Soul brings melody to the resistance, Moseqar hangs with Biggie and Om Kalthoum.

Gabriel Luis Manga baked Mashallah Mix #4. Still navigating between downtempo, electronica and hip hop, featuring DJs and musicians from the Middle East.

This month’s mix takes us across the map: new tunes by Maryam Saleh in Egypt, a slew of Turkish selections, and a new release from Hello Psychaleppo.

Bachir and Krimau form the duo Toukadime, sharing some of yesterday’s greatest songs from the North African diaspora

Tilia Korpe explored artistic activism, or “artivism”, among the youth of Tunisia. We publish her interview with Tunisian rapper WMD

“If the older generation could hear just one song on the radio, maybe they would love rap.” Hear Yemeni AJ Hajaj about the future of rap in Yemen.

Lebanon’s Malikah is putting hip hop on the regional map.

“I wanted to write songs. But I went to so many studios where they said: ‘What the fuck is that? We cannot make a song out of this, it’s bullshit. It’s about women, about lesbians.’”

Although separated by cultural boundaries and individual struggles, breakdancers are tied to one another through their passion for breakdance and hip-hop.

Lebanese rapper Wael Kodeih, also known as Rayess Bek, is one of the creators of Arabic hip hop. Mashallah News had the opportunity to meet with him.