DUBAI: Nearly two decades after bonding over hip-hop in a Jeddah neighborhood where almost no one else listened to it, Saudi rappers Alyoung and Randar have released “R2,” a four-track EP — pairing it with three music videos.
The duo — Ahmed, who performs as Alyoung, and Bandar, who performs as Randar — met around 2008, and their friendship began with a fight. Randar came down to his street in Jeddah to find several boys ganging up on Alyoung, a stranger to the area.
“I found them all on him, and I said: whoever fights…
