Hassan Hajjaj, Mbari House & The Moroccan Rap Frontier
The wealth of rap talent bubbling up in Morocco is far from a secret. The North African country has been churning out some of the finest in Arab-speaking rap for quite some time now, but the West is unforgivably slow at catching on.One man patiently working away to correct that is Hassan Hajjaj, the Moroccan-born, London-raised, multidisciplinary artist and local hero who’s been a tireless champion of Morocco’s cultural cache. Earlier this month, Hassan and his Jajjah space (a cafe/venue in Marrakech’s blossoming creative…