Shahin Najafi (Persian: ‎شاهین نجفی‎) (born in 1980 in Bandar-e Anzali, Iran) is an Iranian musician, ‎singer, rapper, songwriter, and social activist currently residing in Germany. He began his music ‎career in Iran before immigrating to Germany in 2005. He has been referred to as being one of the ‎forefronters in the Iran's modern hip hop scene by several experts and critics.‎
Najafi's songs mostly deal with issues such as theocracy, poverty, sexism, censorship, child labor, ‎execution, drug addiction and homophobia. He strives to use poetic, literary, philosophical and ‎political elements in his music.‎

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shahin_Najafi
http://www.shahinnajafimusic.com/‎