• Palestinian rapper Osloob in his studio in Beirut; crossfade with Samria Tawfiq’s album cover, one of Osloob’s many sample sources. (Filmstill from «The Cause of Rap» by Justin de Gonzague and Nicolas Puig 2019)
    Essay
    Sampling is an approach to composing music «with» others by incorporating audio fragments from various sources. Here, Nicolas Puig discusses sample-based tracks by the Palestinian artist Osloob. This innovative rapper and electronic music composer uses sampling to link the politicized art created in refugee camps to other critical art forms that redefine the relationship between the aesthetic and the political.