The Foundation
They were not necessarily the ones rapping, but without them there would be no scene to write about. Someone opened a microphone, someone wrote about a song nobody had heard, someone organised the first battle. This archive rests on their work, and this page is theirs.
Jeddah
A hip-hop broadcaster and documentarian from Jeddah. He hosted Laish Hip-Hop on Mix FM from 2011 — the first hip-hop radio show on Saudi FM — and built the Re-Volt platform around it. His work was not music: introducing the culture, opening a microphone to artists who had no platform, and recording a whole period that would otherwise have been lost. In that sense he is foundational: much of what we know about the Saudi scene passed through him.
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League organisers, platform founders and the producers who built the sound — added here one by one, each with sources.