Sahal

A rhythmic Arabic track in a Moroccan and Egyptian mix whose refrain says that nothing is easy. Even the sun comes up behind clouds, the grass is dry from drought, and a green land has no grass left, all of it red. Still, he says, thank God in every case, everything comes from the sky, and the main thing is that God sees our situation. Then the voice shifts into a spoken passage about Agadir: an old trading town where caravans from the far west met caravans from the Sahara, with a shore that gave sardines, and the sea is still there. He ends with a few lines about a rapper who writes no complicated words but earns respect by saying plain things plainly.