5 Ways This Iraqi Hip-Hop Artist Is Changing The Narrative Around Arabs

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This guy has some good ideas, but his outfits are really, really wild. He certainly makes a statement in them.


5 Ways This Iraqi Hip-Hop Artist Is Changing The Narrative Around Arabs

Narcy = Neo-Arab Rebel Called Yassin

posted on Jun. 30, 2015, at 9:02 a.m.

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Yassin Alsalman, artistically known as Narcy, formerly The Narcicyst, is a hip-hop and multimedia artist of Iraqi origin, who grew up in the UAE and Montreal.
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Hassan Hajjaj
His goal is “to humanize our experience as Arabs, as Muslims, or as Others… because a lot of times when people present us, they present us in an extreme, polarized version.”
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Here are five powerful ways he’s doing just that:

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