Wegz
ويجز
Musician
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Egypt
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Alexandria,
Egypt
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The Alexandria rapper who dragged Egyptian trap and Mahraganat into the commercial mainstream, blending Western hip hop with shaabi and Afrobeats.
Raised in the Al Wardian neighborhood of Alexandria, Wegz built his sound at the intersection of Western trap and Egypt's own street music traditions, folding Mahraganat and shaabi folk into hip hop production built for stadium crowds.
His rise turned Egyptian rap from a niche export into one of the biggest commercial forces in the country's music industry. He remains one of the most streamed artists in the Arab world, an unlikely outcome for a genre that record labels once dismissed as too local to travel.
Languages
Arabic, English
Representation
Independent