Here’s A Bunch Of Rap Classics That Sample Music From South Asia, The Middle East, And North Africa

A post shared by Himanshu Suri (Heems) (@nehrujackets) on Mar 6, 2017 at 9:56am PST

Heems, rapper with Swet Shop Boys, shared a long Twitter thread of his favorite rap songs that sample music from South Asia and the MENA regions (Middle East and North Africa). This is the artist who once rapped "I'm so New York I still don't bump Tupac," so his hometown has a strong presence, as you'd expect. You'll enjoy songs you recognize, discover others that might be new, and leave with a stronger impression of just how important diasporic traditions have been in the foundations and sustaining of rap music in the United States.

Check the entire selection out below, and listen to the new Swet Shop Boys single "Thas My Girl." Check out their spring/summer tour dates here.

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Here's some of my favorite songs from AMERICA that sampled music from MENA and S ASIA. (Thread). https://t.co/IsnA6AtUeU
— skeet bharara (@HIMANSHU) May 12, 2017

Company Flow - The Fire in Which You Burn https://t.co/Mo174GiWWT
— skeet bharara (@HIMANSHU) May 12, 2017

Mobb Deep f/ Young Buck - Give It To Me https://t.co/aL2uELreJh
— skeet bharara (@HIMANSHU) May 12, 2017

Timbaland f/ Magoo + Tweet - All Yall https://t.co/l5iLaj5sOc
— skeet bharara (@HIMANSHU) May 12, 2017

Timbaland f/ Magoo - Indian Flute https://t.co/5zAJSUtYM4
— skeet bharara (@HIMANSHU) May 12, 2017

Jay-Z - Big Pimpin https://t.co/wy4TcUKTnY
— skeet bharara (@HIMANSHU) May 12, 2017

Truth Hurts f/ Rakim - Addictive https://t.co/4AXfLrMEYk
— skeet bharara (@HIMANSHU) May 12, 2017

Erick Sermon f/ Redman - React (Shoutsout @JustBlaze) https://t.co/QVUdPGG1Kd
— skeet bharara (@HIMANSHU) May 12, 2017

.@JustBlaze Black Eyed Peas - Don't Phunk With My Heart - https://t.co/vjsFtWvPVE
— skeet bharara (@HIMANSHU) May 12, 2017

.@JustBlaze GZA - 4th Chamber https://t.co/5ijWcBtkpU
— skeet bharara (@HIMANSHU) May 12, 2017

.@JustBlaze Jaylib - Survival Test https://t.co/2UUZ5BFjdu
— skeet bharara (@HIMANSHU) May 12, 2017

.@JustBlaze Petey Pablo - Raise Up https://t.co/t1cz3pPoYn
— skeet bharara (@HIMANSHU) May 12, 2017

.@JustBlaze Fabolous f/ Neyo - You Make Me Betterhttps://t.co/ZjZkyOsqXg
— skeet bharara (@HIMANSHU) May 12, 2017

.@JustBlaze Foxy Brown - Hood Scriptures https://t.co/waySODNAlV
— skeet bharara (@HIMANSHU) May 12, 2017

.@JustBlaze J Dilla - People https://t.co/YuXzYm4thQ
— skeet bharara (@HIMANSHU) May 12, 2017

.@JustBlaze Kanye West - I Am A God https://t.co/x3ub6LdHgI
— skeet bharara (@HIMANSHU) May 12, 2017

.@JustBlaze Pusha T f/ Future - Pain (Amar Akbar Anthony sample!) https://t.co/z0K5a8xpu5
— skeet bharara (@HIMANSHU) May 12, 2017

.@JustBlaze Bobby Valentino - Slow Down https://t.co/WCN4zyCsVc
— skeet bharara (@HIMANSHU) May 12, 2017

.@JustBlaze and one of my all time favorites, 112 - All My Love https://t.co/8mq72ObCq7
— skeet bharara (@HIMANSHU) May 12, 2017

.@JustBlaze Masta Ace - Brooklyn Masala (She lived like three blocks from my man,
In NY for six months, moved from Pakistan) https://t.co/30X3Bum0xf
— skeet bharara (@HIMANSHU) May 12, 2017

Here’s A Bunch Of Rap Classics That Sample Music From South Asia, The Middle East, And North Africa

Courtesy of Heems.

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