Best Sindibad El Ward

In his article ‘If Israeli soldiers start shooting, we won’t stop the interview’, Tom Faber, a journalist for The Guardian, describes Shabjdeed and Al Nather’s music as omnipresent in the air: ‘I hear them everywhere. Al Nather’s sleek productions pump out of car speakers in the Jordanian desert, and Shabjdeed’s raps tumble from the bars of Haifa. And, of course, you hear it all in their home – the tumultuous city of Ramallah’. Their collective BLTNM is a distinguishing voice for hip-hop in the Arab world.