Afghanistan is known for its constraints on women, both in the past and present, but for Susan Firoz, a 23-year-old Afghan rap artist, it provides material for her craft.
Firoz is pushing against the social norms and barriers built around women in Afghanistan with her talent for music and words, but it comes at a high price with threats against her and her family.
While she has not let it stop her, Firoz said that now her father accompanies her everywhere.
"Those who are threatening me, they are telling me 'We will kidnap you and we will rape you' or 'We will kidnap your brothers or a member of your family.' There is a lot of problems for me that I am facing," she told TOLOnews Thursday.
Firoz is not only challenging the social structures holding back women and girls in her country, she is financially supporting her five-member family with her success.
Firoz said she hopes that one day she will be remembered as one of Afghanistan's greatest pop stars.
"What has happened to my people, what has happened to me and what has happened in our country is the reason that I became a rapper. I want to express the problems through rap music," she said.
Rap music is a common in many other countries but is a new form of music expression in Afghanistan.
Firoz said she first heard rap music when her family were living in Iran and that despite the challenges she is happy with life, especially when she compares it with the lives of so many other girls in Afghanistan who are not allowed to even listen to music.