A Saudi Arabian rapper who goes by the stage name Asayel Slay is facing arrest after releasing a song titled “Girl Of Mecca” (alternately translated as “Mecca Girl”). In the song, she praises the women the holy city, describing them as “powerful and beautiful.” She gives a more unconventional compliment in another line: “Our respect to other girls but the Mecca girl is sugar candy.”
Despite the fact that Asayel Slay kills the track, the governor Mecca, Khaled al-Faisal, was not pleased to discover its music video. On his administration’s ficial Twitter account, he ordered that Asayel Slay and everyone else responsible for the video be taken into custody. The tweet claims that “Girl Of Mecca” “fends the customs and traditions the people Mecca and contradicts the identity and traditions its high-ranking children.”
While the ficial video have been removed from YouTube, it continues to float around online in light this story. Supporters are rallying behind it with the hashtag, #Mecca_Girl_Represents_Me. The video is set in a cafe and shows young girls dancing. The video has no ***ual undertones and the lyrics have no obscenities. “This is so typical the Saudi government to do – bring western influencers to artwash the regime but attack real Saudi women who try to artistically express their cultural identities,” tweeted Amani Al-Ahmadi, who identifies herself as a Saudi-American feminist.