Shobra El General: “the mahraganate is a social media, connected to the street”

From the streets of Cairo where he began to rap to the boards of contemporary scenes in Europe (we saw him in 2021 on the boards in a dance performance by the Compagnie Olivier Dubois and at the Nyege Nyege festival in Paris last July) , listening to the story of rapper Shobra El General is an experience of overcoming and creation in exile. A red thread stretched throughout a furious life trajectory, the mahraganate innervates the creative muscle of Shobra.

Born in the chaos of revolutionary Egypt, this music, an improbable mix of loops…