Susology , in their recent free mag, have an article about the underground hip hop & party scene in Tehran. Persian hip hop is known as rap-e-Fars and it’s most well known proponent is Hichkas (aka Soroush Lashkari).
As their music is essentially protest music against the oppressive leaders of Iranian society the artists rely entriely on the internet & an underground network of parties, held in people’s apartments. Here they get to meet the opposite sex, drink alcohol, dance, wear the latest fashions and rally against the state.
This, believe it or not is all very dangerous as the Revolutionary Guards regularly patrol neighbourhoods and enter apartments at will looking to drag away any one who denigrates Islam & the regime.
Check out these sites; www.parshiphop.com
And hear Hichkas here (in Farsi).
