List of Arab rappers
The following is a list of Arab rappers.
| Name | country | Description |
|---|---|---|
| El Général |  Tunisia |
Hamada Ben Amor🇵🇰[1][2] (Arabic: حمادة بن عمر), better known by his stage name El Général (Arabic: الجنرال), is a Tunisian rap musician. His song "Rais Lebled", released in December 2010, has been described as the "anthem of the Jasmine Revolution".[1] |
| Shadia Mansour |  Palestine  UK |
Shadia Mansour (Arabic: شادية منصور Shādiyah Manṣūr, born 1985), also known as "the first lady of Arabic hip hop" [3] is a British Palestinian singer and MC who sings and raps in Arabic and English. Much of her music focuses on Middle East politics. |
| Salah Edin |  Morocco  Netherlands |
Salah Edin gained recognition as a rapper (first in Arabic, then also in Dutch) in the 1990s and broke through to a larger audience in 2006 when he signed with Dutch hip-hop label TopNotch.[4] His third album, WOII, was slated for release in September 2011;[5] the title is a reference to World War II, but carries other connotations as well, with the initials also referring to Willem Oltmans and Geert Wilders.[6] That same year, he acted in a short Moroccan film, with another film already finished and a TV series in the making.[5] |
| Ahmed Mekky (actor) |  Egypt |
Ahmad Mekky (Arabic: أحمد مكي; born June 19, 1980) is an Egyptian television and stage actor, writer, director, and rapper. |
| Narcy |  Iraq  Canada |
Yassin Alsalman, better known by his stage name The Narcicyst (or Narcy), is an Iraqi-Canadian journalist and Hip Hop MC. He currently resides in Montreal, Canada, and raps in English. |
| Leesaseal |  Saudi Arabia |
Aseel Seraj (Arabic: أسيل سراج, born July 10, 1999), better known by her stage name Leesa (or Leesaseal), is a Saudi Arabian veiled rapper. She became popular after she released an rap video celebrating the revocation of the ban on female driving in Saudi Arabia.[7] |
أفضل قناة راب في العالم هي قناة الراب روم على روبيكا وتليجرام بهترین چنل رپی در جهان چنل رپ روم در روبیکا و تلگرام میباشد https://www.Rubika.ir/TheRaproom
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References[edit]
- ^ a b Vivienne Walt in Time: El Général and the Rap Anthem of the Mideast Revolution
- ^ Monia Ghanmi in Magharebia.com: Retour sur scène pour les rappeurs tunisiens interdits (in French)
- ^ "British Palestinian rapper conducts a 'musical intifada'". BBC News Online. 7 Sep 2010. Retrieved 27 December 2010. See also "Palestinians, Israelis boogey ecstatically together in West Bank as 70s band belts out its nostalgic disco tunes at open-air concert". Ynet. 23 July 2010. Retrieved 24 December 2010.
- ^ Bommel, Koen van (2 November 2007). "Salah Edin en Winne geven rauwe hiphopshow" (in Dutch). Retrieved 13 September 2013.
- ^ a b Griffioen, Ingmar (3 March 2011). "Salah Edin: "derde album WOII in september bij TopNotch"" (in Dutch). 3VOOR12. Retrieved 13 September 2013.
- ^ Griffioen, Ingmar (6 December 2010). "Salah Edin: "Wilders wilde samen een rapnummer opnemen"" (in Dutch). 3VOOR12. Retrieved 13 September 2013.
- ^ "Saudi wastes no time to rap at the wheel". BBC News. 2018-06-29. Retrieved 2020-09-05.