Ahmed Ali, higher often called Wegz, has shortly risen to develop into a defining voice in Egyptian hip-hop. Born on 11 September 1998, the 26-year-old rapper has pushed the boundaries of Egypt’s music scene and hip-hop by mixing conventional shaabi music, a well-liked form of folks music, with trendy lure beats.
Wegz, a nickname given to him by a buddy, grew up in Al Wardiyan neighborhood in Alexandria the place he studied at El-Agami Larger Institute of Administration Sciences. His first launched music on Spotify, launched when he was 19, is Batalo Pretend (Cease Being Pretend, 2017).
Nonetheless, Wegz’s first music to go viral was Bazet (It’s Ruined, 2019), and his first observe to realize large reputation and put him beneath the media’s highlight was Dorak Gai (You’re Subsequent, 2019).
Dorak Gai was enjoying at outlets, vehicles, toktoks, weddings, and streets of Cairo on the time. In February 2020, Wegz’s music Bazet was featured in a TV advert for Molto, an Egyptian snack by the meals firm Edita, bringing his music to each family by means of tv. Then, in March 2020, he launched the music video for Dorak Gai, which garnered over 24 million views in lower than two months.
Wegz secured the title of Egypt’s most-streamed artist on Spotify for 3 consecutive years: 2020, 2021, and 2022. His 2020 hit Dorak Gai was the platform’s most-streamed music in Egypt that yr.
In 2022, three of his tracks ranked among the many nation’s prime ten most-streamed songs, with Al-Bakht (Luck, 2022) main at primary, adopted by B’ouda Ya Belady (Return to Your State, my House Nation, 2022) in fourth place, and Keify Keda (That’s What I Need, 2021) rounding out the checklist at quantity ten.
His cultural affect extends past music; in 2021, he made his performing debut within the in style collection Bimbo, directed by Amr Salama.
His affect on the music trade was additional acknowledged when Forbes Center East included him in its 2021 checklist of Arab music stars, and GQ Center East journal featured him among the many 21 most fun younger musicians worldwide, representing the Center East. He was additionally featured in a New York Instances article in November of 2023, because the Egyptian rapper who desires to take Arabic hip-hop worldwide.
The rapper has achieved such widespread recognition that even Egyptians who should not followers of Egyptian rap can readily title him when requested in regards to the style.
