Dj besho biography

"The people find this very funny," said the young man. "They say this isn't a song because this man isn't singing, he is talking."

From the car stereo came the sound of looped drums and a thudding bass-line topped by the machine-gun delivery of a man rapping in the style of America's gangsta rap stars.

To the delight of the young, Western dressed Kabulis in the car next to me, he was rapping in Dari.

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"I like it very much," the man went on. "Lots of Afghan men like me who know English have heard foreign rap music. But now we have it in our own language."

While the arrival of rap music in Afghanistan is hugely popular with some young Afghans, it has also caused widespread bemusement and in some cases outright alarm.

"This is too much for Afghanistan," said Akhtar Mohammed, 31, a Kabul shopkeeper who described himself as not particularly conservative.

"This is a new music,