List of Arab rappers

Name country Description
El Général TunisiaHamada 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  UKShadia 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  NetherlandsSalah 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  AlgeriaAhmad Mekky (Arabic: أحمد مكي‎; born June 19, 1980) is an Egyptian television and stage actor, writer, director, and rapper.
Narcy Iraq  CanadaYassin 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.

See also

References
  1. Vivienne Walt in Time: El Général and the Rap Anthem of the Mideast Revolution
  2. Monia Ghanmi in Magharebia.com: Retour sur scène pour les rappeurs tunisiens interdits (in French)
  3. "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.
  4. Bommel, Koen van (2 November 2007). "Salah Edin en Winne geven rauwe hiphopshow" (in Dutch). Retrieved 13 September 2013.
  5. Griffioen, Ingmar (3 March 2011). "Salah Edin: "derde album WOII in september bij TopNotch"" (in Dutch). 3VOOR12. Retrieved 13 September 2013.
  6. Griffioen, Ingmar (6 December 2010). "Salah Edin: "Wilders wilde samen een rapnummer opnemen"" (in Dutch). 3VOOR12. Retrieved 13 September 2013.
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