What features must the lyrics of a rap song have?
Shahin: For me the most important features of rap are its visual and narrative characteristics in its lyrics. We have these features in our “Naghaali” (traditional story-telling) too. And because of this, rap in my opinion is not so close to melodical music but rather close to verbal music. But experience has shown that creativity in the beats, the harmony, and the melody can make rap richer from a musicality point of view. But the ultimate purpose of rap is (the use of) its words and by using artistic methods of poetry such as metaphor, allusion, homogeneity, ambiguity, and etc. And also the originality of the singer’s vocal part is the final power of a piece that helps to improve its quality. Zirzamin: Based on our statistic, Germany hosts the third largest number of readers of Zirzamin after the US and Sweden. They also spend substantial time on our site reading the different material found at Zirzamin. In this regards how has your work been met in Germany? Shahin: Regardless of wha
