I Love Hip Hop in Morocco follows the birth of a Moroccan hip-hop festival and at the same time portrays a scene that is filled with dynamic political protest and straight up joie-de-vivre. American-born hip-hop has spread to young people all over the world, but not just as an all-consuming monocultural phenomenon. In Morocco, where hip-hop is an alive and kicking part of youth culture, it just as naturally deals with Islam, the royal family and Arabic music as it does with self-praise, poverty and gangster attitudes. Morocco's foremost DJ, DJ Key, not only struggles with trying to organise cheesy mainstream club nights in order to sustain his family, but also with trying to unite his love of both hip-hop and Islam. The group Fnaïre combines traditional Moroccan music with heavy beats and rap. And the female rapper Fati Show is yelled at on the street, booed on stage, but nonetheless refuses to let her love of hip-hop be cowed. The film is made by Josh Asen, who, by the way, grew up as a Jew in Brooklyn, and he really manages to capture the musical creativity and zest for life that is the core of hip-hop, while giving us an unusual insight, not just into Moroccan circumstances, but into how a global culture works on a local level.