The Muslim Hip-Hop Archives

The Muslim Hip-Hop Archives brings together significant works by Muslim hip-hop artists from around the world. The archive begins with France, where my long-term research is based, but also expands across Europe, North America and Australia.

The term “Muslim” is used here in a broad, sociological and historical sense, encompassing a wide range of religious practices, cultural affiliations and inherited identities. Rather than policing belief or practice, the archive is concerned with documenting the lived experiences of Muslim youth in diasporic settings - experiences that may reference faith explicitly, indirectly, or not at all.

Conceived as the first of its kind, The Muslim Hip-Hop Archives treats hip-hop as a cultural and historical archive in its own right – one that preserves memory, articulates political critique and documents the emotional worlds and everyday lives of young Muslims, especially those within marginalised contexts.