Afghanistan's First Female Rapper Calls For the End of Abusing Women
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For many, hip hop is the sound of rebellion, and Sosan Firooz — Afghanistan’s first female rapper — has pro-Afghanistan and anti-Taliban messages in her track “Our Neighbors.”
Firooz, who is 23 years old, spent time in Iran and in Pakistan as a refugee from the Taliban regime. According to a story by the AP’s Rahim Faiez, she is back in Kabul — living in a mud brick house, using an electronic keyboard someone gave her, and breaking rules in a country where many women don’t go outside without a burqa. Violence against women is still common in the country, and though Firooz recently performed at a three-day music festival in her city, it was a segregated audience: all-female the first day and all-male the two other days.