List of Arab rappers

Image	Name	country	Description
150x150px	Hashemite snake	Template:🇱🇾	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]
	Nawawe (Rapper)	Sudan	(Arabic: عثمان سيف الدين عثمان) known by the stage name Nawawe, born 1 Mar 1996.[3] is a Sudanese musical artist and humanitarian He lives Saudi Arabia.
150x150px	Eslam Jawaad	Lebanon  Syria	Wissam Khodur (Arabic: وسام خضر‎‎), better known as Eslam Jawaad (Arabic: اسلام جواد‎‎), is a rapper of Lebanese-Syrian origin. His debut album, The Mammoth Tusk, was released in 2009. The album was considered an international advancement for local Arabic hip-hop as it featured support from a number of high-profile acts including Damon Albarn (Gorillaz/Blur), De La Soul, The Rza / Gza / Cilvaringz (Wu-Tang Clan), Focus... (Dr. Dre's Aftermath Entertainment), Rude Jude / Lord Sear (Shade 45), and 'Arap' band-mate Shadia Mansour.
150x150px	Shadia Mansour	Palestine  UK	Shadia Mansour (Arabic: شادية منصور‎‎ Shādiyah Manṣūr, born 1985), also known as "the first lady of Arabic hip hop" [4] is a British Palestinian singer and MC who sings and raps in Arabic and English. Much of her music focuses on Middle East politics.
150x150px	Ostaz Samm	Palestine  Jordan	Samer Zaki Shaqfeh (Arabic: سامر زكي شقفة ‎‎) (born 1984) is a hip-hop artist from Palestine, Was born and raised in Amman, Jordan, better known by his stage names Samm and Ostaz Samm, most known for begin on MBC 4's Arabs Got Talent.[5]
150x150px	MBS (hip hop)	Algeria	MBS, short for Le Micro Brise Le Silence (the microphone breaks the silence), is a rap group formed in 1988 in Algeria. They sing in Algerian and French, and are led by Rabah Ourrad. Their lyrics mostly speak out against the Algerian government.
150x150px	Cut Killer	Morocco	Anouar Hajoui better known as DJ Cut Killer or just Cut Killer, born 6 May 1971) is a renowned French DJ of Moroccan origin with a versatile repertoire of hip hop and rap. He enjoys international fame and mixed in United States of America through invitations by DJ Big Dawg Pitbulls of Funkmaster Flex and Shadyville DJ's of rapper 50 Cent. For more than fifteen years, he has been one of the most emblematic DJs in French hip hop.!!
150x150px	L7a9d	Morocco	In September 2014 he was nominated by European United Left–Nordic Green Left for the Sakharov Prize, along with the Tunisian rapper Weld El 15 and the Egyptian blogger Alaa Abdel Fattah. The following month, the nomination was withdrawn after controversy over some 2012 tweets by Abd El-Fattah at the time of Israel's bombing of Gaza.[6]
	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.[7] His third album, WOII, was slated for release in September 2011;[8] 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.[9] That same year, he acted in a short Moroccan film, with another film already finished and a TV series in the making.[8]
	Ahmed Mekky (actor)	Egypt  Algeria	Ahmad Mekky (Arabic: أحمد مكي‎‎; born June 19, 1980) is an Egyptian television and stage actor, writer, director, and rapper.
150x150px	The Narcicyst	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.

See also

• Lists of musicians

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. Nawawe BBc music page
4. "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.
5. "Ostaz Samm on Arab's Got Talent".
6. Joel Benin, Can Arabs be Human Rights Defenders?, Jadaliyya, 10 October 2014
7. Bommel, Koen van (2 November 2007). "Salah Edin en Winne geven rauwe hiphopshow" (in Dutch). Retrieved 13 September 2013.
8. Griffioen, Ingmar (3 March 2011). "Salah Edin: "derde album WOII in september bij TopNotch"" (in Dutch). 3VOOR12. Retrieved 13 September 2013.
9. Griffioen, Ingmar (6 December 2010). "Salah Edin: "Wilders wilde samen een rapnummer opnemen"" (in Dutch). 3VOOR12. Retrieved 13 September 2013.