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Raï: The Street Music of Algeria

Monday, September 10th, 2007

Outspoken. Blunt. Gritty. Rebellious. These adjectives have been used to describe American rap music – but they can also describe Algerian raï music, pronounced “rye” or “rah-EE” and translated as “opinion” or “point of view” (it is also colloquially used as an exclamation similar to “oh, yeah!”)