karpe from last week's wmw are the biggest rap duo in norway. paf.no, off their album omar sheriff, is titled after the url of the patel & abdelmaguid foundation, which handles distributing the revenue from their music towards causes that help immigrants and refugees. it also, in its own right, bangs.
aside from the bars riffing on money and its worth, a decent chunk of the song borrows lyrics and tune from a tunisian folk song called sidi mansour. the course of the original song goes something like "oh god, father, peace be upon you, father/saint mansour, my father, peace be upon you, father" and then spends the rest of the song asking sidi mansour what to to about being lovestruck. magdi here tweaks the lyrics to fit karpe's track, but it still works imo.
and look, it's not exactly a chant of "no borders," but in a time where islamophobia and the east-west culture clash narrative is alive and well, there is something kind of endearing about seeing a sold-out stadium's worth of norwegians shouting "allah, allah, yah baba/wa salam alayk, yah baba." i'm glad we live in a world where that's possible
