in 2001 some of the young artists create a movement called Iranian hip hop their music was inspired by American hip hop artists like Eminem or Tupac and at the beginning government bans this genre of music but artists like zedbazi, hichkas, reza pishro and many other tries to make hip hop music until this day hip hop genre artist cant sell an album cant make the concert but this movement still alive and new artists like epicure, wantons, hamid sefat, and ali sorena keep this big movement alive, also in Iran governments rules the Persian rock music is forbidden too