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MUSICLIBRARY The pop of the Egyptian Revolution

Pop music is having an important role in disseminating the sentiments and ideals that are enlivening the riots of the Maghreb: civil society as the rest of those countries, even the music world is in turmoil, and every day have a large production inspired by the revolutions in the course is enriched with new pieces of all kinds (with a prevalence of rap and hip hop), as well as bands emerging artists established. To realize just take a trip on youtube, or on the platform mideastunes.com - music for social change. And it is just out " Meesh Ba'eed Khalas Mixtape Vol.1", a compilation that is distributed free of charge and contains tracks by hip hop "rebels" from Libya, Algeria, Tunisia and Egypt.

However, this phenomenon is reaching dimensions remarkable especially in relation to the days of Tahrir Square, which quickly led to the dismissal of Mubarak: Egyptian Revolution on the fact there are already dozens of songs and hymns.

Clearly it is at least legitimate to ask if they have bands and singers wrote their "songs of the revolution" for love of country and desire to participate or rather only to ride the wave and make some money on it. However, the effectiveness should be highlighted and the feeling of the texts of at least some of the most significant songs (sung in English or whose translation is available online), which are proposed to a small selection.

# Jan25 Egypt - born through the cooperation of the Arab American rapper Omar Offendum, The Narcicyst, Freeway, Ayah, Amir Sulaiman, is one of the songs currently in vogue.

Chorus:

Time to push, I is not falling and we now
Time to fight back, "Because we are all we have now
Do you hear?
Calling out for back up
Try to keep a look out for better days


Rebel - Arabian Knightz (gruppo rap de Il Cairo) featuring Lauryn Hill



Not Your Prisoner - Arabian Knightz featuring Shadia Mansour (cantante palestinese)



Back Down Mubarak! - Master Mimz ( rapper londinese di origine marocchina)



[...]
Everybody stomp your feet like
Tired Of Being chewed meat
Call it revolution jasmin
Lost world we are the solution
This shit do not smell like a flower
It's the rise of people power
[ ...]

The faster you compose a song in honor of the Egyptian people had been Wyclef Jean with Freedom (Song For Egypt).

Chorus:

And this is not the Exodus
Tell Pharaoh That Is not leaving the people
We Is not Leaving
This is more like a
This is the genesis beginning of freedom

From Berlin comes Long Live Egypt - TA7YA MASR of Scarabeuz and OMIM.



Our human rights are all that we want:
social justice and food to eat

We will not be more docile and do not hide what we think most

Egypt Fight Song - Behead The King featuring Bird and The Truth

Finally Sout Al Horeya (the sound of freedom) of Hany Adel , Amir Eid Sheriff Mostafa Hawary and, more specifically the song "pop" from among those selected here, and that in just two weeks after it is loaded on youtube has totaled more than a million views.

Our weapons were our dreams
and tomorrow, and 'clear in front of us and
'
wait a long time since trying to find our place without in any way the

my country gets the voice of freedom '