{"id":195382,"date":"2025-04-04T16:25:39","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T14:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisias-rap-revolution-5-women-who-are-redefining-hip-hop\/"},"modified":"2025-04-04T16:25:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T14:25:39","slug":"tunisias-rap-revolution-5-women-who-are-redefining-hip-hop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisias-rap-revolution-5-women-who-are-redefining-hip-hop\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia&#8217;s Rap Revolution &#8211; 5 Women Who Are Redefining Hip-Hop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Women rappers were not really a feature of Tunisia&#8217;s typically <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arabsounds.net\/news\/features\/tunisian-hiphop-these-are-the-most-popular-rappers-from-tunisia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">masculine<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediasupport.org\/in-depth\/navigating-a-changing-world\/rap-in-tunisia-rogue-but-masculine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">chauvinist<\/a> hip-hop <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/World\/Middle-East\/2020\/0716\/Break-the-silence-In-Tunisia-rappers-keep-revolution-alive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">scene<\/a> until the <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/why-tunisians-are-back-on-the-streets-seven-years-after-the-jasmine-revolution-90163\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">revolution<\/a> that overthrew <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/ben-ali-the-tunisian-autocrat-who-laid-the-foundations-for-his-demise-124786\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali<\/a> in 2011.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">Now there are several politically conscious female voices rising in the rap scene. Gender studies <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=Gm58SN0AAAAJ&amp;hl=en&amp;oi=ao\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">scholar<\/a> Jyhene Kebsi has published a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/13629387.2024.2338069\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">research paper<\/a> on how their lyrics highlight the multiple inequalities that women in Tunisia &#8211; and the world &#8211; must overcome.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\"><strong>How have male Tunisian rappers generally treated women in their songs&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504040006.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Tunisia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/tunisia\/\">Tunisia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women rappers were not really a feature of Tunisia&#8217;s typically masculine and chauvinist hip-hop scene until the revolution that overthrew Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali in 2011. Now there are several politically conscious female voices rising in the rap scene. Gender studies scholar Jyhene Kebsi has published a research paper on how their lyrics highlight the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":195383,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[258,256,21258,257,14429,32438,14191,254,653,6684,6524],"class_list":["post-195382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-hiphop","tag-news","tag-rap","tag-redefining","tag-revolution","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tunisia-news","tag-tunisias","tag-women"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}