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 and North America.

The term ‘Muslim’ is used here in a broad, sociological and historical sense, encompassing a wide range of religious practices and cultural identities. Rather than monitoring 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.