Tamer Nafar was born in 1979 in Lod, a city in Israel where Jewish and Palestinian communities have lived alongside and often across from each other for generations. As a teenager, he discovered hip-hop through Tupac; he learned English by translating lyrics and found in rap a way to transform frustration into rhythm. He is considered a pioneer of Palestinian hip-hop as the founder of DAM, the first Arab hip-hop group in Israel, and developed a raw, multilingual style that blends Arabic, Hebrew, and English. Through his music, he was one of the first voices to express the realities of life under occupation and discrimination.

Nafar uses music as both a political weapon and a cultural archive. With DAM, he released internationally acclaimed, yet controversial, albums like "Ihda" and "Dabke on the Moon." He is also active as an actor and writer, including the film "Junction 48," which is partly based on his own life. His work blends protest with poetry, humor with pain, and demonstrates that, for him, the personal and the political always go hand in hand.