It seeks to shed more light on the contemporary lyrical color

Tariq Al-Hamaydeh: “Arab rap” is able to convey positive messages

Al-Hamaydeh: My next project is a big rap competition with 32 of the most prominent female rap celebrities in the UAE participating.

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“Most of the rap artists in the Arab Gulf region got acquainted with this musical genre through the Emirates.” With these words, Tariq Al Hamaydeh, songwriter and rapper and founder of the Arab Rap platform, began his dialogue with “Emirates Today”, stopping at the most prominent stops of his career The art in which he started 16 years ago to get acquainted with this art and relate to it to the point that in 2008 it prompted him to present a group of songs that won the approval of his audience at the time, at a time when this lyrical color was not well known and widely circulated among the public.

Al-Hamaydeh stopped at the meaningful societal messages that he devoted and still a number of stars of this art of rap, stressing that «there are many topics that can be addressed and addressed in a meaningful language far from offensive, especially that the successful rapper begins his artistic advice by writing his songs inspired by his personal life And his various experiences, before he went to life topics that deal with the issues of his society, as happened in the rap song presented by Ahmed Darwish and Aboud X in 2010 about people of determination, there are many positive and educational messages that rap songs can present to everyone, and this is what drives the major advertising companies Today around the world, we are seeking the help of rap stars to better communicate their messages to the public. ”

Love

It seems that his enthusiasm and his love for "rap", which has become a passion that does not leave him, prompted him early to work on launching a website specializing in this lyrical genre, followed by a second specialist in the same field, before the artist thought to actually embark on realizing his dream and his new projects that It aims to shed light on this contemporary singing color, and to encourage young singers to engage in its experiences, and then participate in building a singing community whose first nucleus is the modern Arab rap platforms, with their new names and celebrities gathered under the banner of one creativity.

Al-Hamaydeh said, “I launched a special application for Arab rap a while ago, which I called the (Arab Rap) platform, which is a music application similar to international music applications, through which we aim to include the largest possible number of names of this art and its promising faces, and help them reach the largest segment of the Arab audience By showing their music ».

He saw that a large sector “became passionate about developments in this art and its news and enjoys the quality of the new productions presented, whether by singers, celebrities, social media, or even on the YouTube platform. On the current art scene, and achieved great success, attracting millions of followers and fans of this art of all age and social groups.

numbers

Al-Hamaydeh noted the role played by social media in promoting the art of rap, stopping at his experience on the platform that he supervises with a team of specialists around the clock, considering that “the only competitor for us today is Spotify, which is ranked 80th around the world, at the time. The Arab Rap platform has set a new record at the level of websites globally, achieving advanced ranks compared to the application of Anghami, according to the statistics of the well-known global company, Alexa.

Regarding the app’s popularity among Arab rap fans, he explained, “Today we have more than 16,000 downloads of the application via smartphones, while the Arab rap site includes more than 200 rappers from different regions of the Arab world, while the forum includes the history of art Gulf rap, which we have integrated into the platform with the aim of achieving more interaction between fans of this musical color and introducing the art of rap and its rules, more than 38 thousand members, of whom about 20 thousand rappers belong to schools and various lyrical colors », pointing to the value of the platform in promoting the future of rap locally And in the Arab world: "I am sure that, with the help of the audience, the platform will be the future of Emirati and Arab rap."

Upcoming projects

In addition to his talents in the field of sound engineering, lyric composition and performance, and the creation of websites and applications, Tariq Al-Hamaydeh worked with his brother in the field of organizing concerts and events, which opened the door wide for him to get acquainted not only with the majority of rap stars around the world, but also to the majority of singing stars around the world through They invited them to hold a large series of concerts attended by an audience of those interested in art in the Emirates.

He added: “We have new plans and projects that we will start implementing after the end of the Corona pandemic, and it will consist of a number of artistic concerts in both the Emirates and Saudi Arabia, provided that a number of Arab countries such as Egypt and Morocco will be launched afterwards, in addition to my next project in which I intend to launch a rap competition. A large number of 32 participants from the most prominent rap celebrities in the UAE, who will travel around the Arab world to ensure the participation of all its active creators on the scene.

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