HIP HOP GROUP IN SAUDI ARABIA | Run Junction Releases Their Debut Album "J City Chronicles"

Run Junction is a Mult-National Hip-Hop group founded in Jeddah, KSA (end of 2010).

It consists of 6 MC's & 4 Producers as well as designers, artists & photographers.

On the mic you got Anas Arabi,Kaffien, Majic, Moh Flow , Tim Granite & Vizion. As for the 1's & 2's you got Unkle Saif, MindCircus, Uzi & Anas Arabi.

They released their DEBUT ALBUM : J City Chronicles (which you can download for FREE HERE)

"Hip Hop isnt about holding a mic & start rapping, its beyond that" Saif Saud "Unkle Saif" says on the release of the album, he goes on & says " We are trying to raise the bar, motivate young MC's to go harder"

They are trying to establish a market for "real" hip hop here in the Kingdom..The album already got great feedback from legendary producer "Fredwreck" & some of the artists like Syrian/Americana Omar Offendum & even Black Mccloud.

"We have what it takes & we are halfway through the SECOND album" Saif continues. Run Junction is trying to educate/aware the people of Saudi Arabia about this culture.

"A Full Album produced by producers from Saudi Arabia for the FIRST TIME! & its nothing less that what we hear from outside producers quality & Music wise. Its well structured & on point Al-Hamdulilah"

Give it a listen & support these brothers!

Omar Offendum - "Domino Effect (The Time Is Now)"

My Syrian Khayo "Offendum" !

Full article is here

Proud!

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Traveling with Sol Guy, his business partner and manager (and National Geographic Emerging Explorer), his mission is to help raise awareness (and relief funding) for millions of starving people. “A life no less valuable than yours and mine. And without any dramatization, without sounding a single bell, we are now at risk of losing 12 million of those ones. In that thought alone, it is remarkable that the world does not come to a halt,” K’naan and Sol said in a statement before their departure for Africa.

Read the Full Article & see all the pix (Taken By Nabil Elderkin) here