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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Firewall: [QB] Marwan Moussa is hungry for more The multi-award-winning Egyptian rapper has millions of fans. He portrays himself as a chill, laid-back guy stumbling into projects. The reality is, he’s got a plan for global success. [IMG]https://www.esquireme.com/cloud/2023/02/06/ESQ-MARWANM_7-819x1024.jpg[/IMG] [QUOTE]When we settle down to talk, Marwan Moussa is in his studio in Maadi, a leafy suburban neighborhood south of Cairo. The studio is in Moussa’s apartment. “It’s just a room,” he says laughing. But the music written and recorded in that room has taken the Egyptian – and by extension Arab and African – rap scene by storm. [/QUOTE] [QUOTE] Born to a father from Ismaila, on the bank of the Suez Canal, and a German mother, 28-year-old Moussa doesn’t fit the typical profile of an Egyptian rapper. I ask if he takes heat on social media being a middle class kid in a working class environment. He chuckles. “I get s*** for that. People say ‘oh he didn’t struggle’.” He says his looks made it even easier to fit him into a stereotype, the fact his mother is German and that DNA is visible. Moussa doesn’t go out of his way to build cred through manufactured toughness. He tells the story of a feud he had a few years back, another rapper was coming at him for ‘being soft.’ Moussa responded the only way he knows how, through his music. “At the end of the day, rap wins. He had this persona, he was being hard. All of that. But he couldn’t write a song like mine. [/QUOTE] [QUOTE] One of the things he’s doing it winning awards. Lots of them. In January, he took home Best African Rapper, Best Breakthrough Artist and Best Artist in African Hip-Hop at the All Africa Music Awards in Dakkar, Senegal. “It means so much to me, because we are part the continent, but we don’t show it enough. We’re not in touch with our African side enough as North African Arabs,” says Moussa. [/QUOTE] https://www.esquireme.com/culture/music/marwan-moussa-is-hungry-for-more [/QB][/QUOTE]
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