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

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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…