Today, September 15th, Egypt celebrates its first-ever National Music Day — the perfect excuse to think about how songs carry more than melodies. Some tracks feel like they belong to specific places, ...

Westside Gunn's "Egypt" begins with a sample of Doechii being interviewed about her favorite artists. She shouts out two rappers she loves; the late MF Doom and Gunn. The Griselda rapper used the clip ...

Encompassing dozens of countries inhabited by close to 500 million people, the Arab world is enormously diverse, and its music reflects that. Our list of the 50 best Arabic pop songs of the 21st ...