Marcel Cartier is an American hip-hop artist, journalist, filmmaker, writer, and political commentator based in Germany.

[1] His first book Serkeftin became one of the first major accounts by an English-speaking journalist to gain access to the civil structures created by Kurdish militants in Rojava.

[citation needed] Cartier's music often focuses on themes of Anti-Colonialism, Feminism,[3] racism,[4] Palestinian statehood,[5] and Labor rights.

[7] Teaming up with the Palestinian solidarity group Existence is Resistance (EIR), he co-created the documentary Hip Hop is Bigger than the Occupation[8] while taking part in an international delegation to Palestine[9] alongside other hip-hop artists including Lowkey, Nana Dankwa, Mazzi, M1, and Dead Prez[10] who happened to have been one of Cartier's teenage idols.

Describing the environment in Rojava as “a feeling, a spirit, the life and soul of a revolution”,[11] he began centering much of his journalism and music around Kurdish issues.