As Iranian rappers like Hichkas are forced into exile, and others like Toomaj Salehi and Saman Yasin are imprisoned, Arian Khameneh takes a look at the genre of music that has soundtracked an era of ...

Iranian rapper Soroush Lashkari, aka Hichkas, is sharing extracts from an unfinished song for his new album Mojaz, translating the lyrics into English on the spot. Hichkas (Nobody) has been called the ...

I got my first taste of Persian rap in the backseat of my friend’s car, flying through the deserted nighttime highways of Tehran. It’s an introduction that I found very fitting, representative of the ...