The following is a list of Arab rappers.
Name | country | Description |
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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". | ||
Shadia Mansour (Arabic: شادية منصور, 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. | ||
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. | |
Ahmad Mekky (Arabic: أحمد مكي; born June 19, 1980) is an Egyptian television and stage actor, writer, director, and rapper. | ||
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. | ||
Aseel Seraj (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] | ||