Rap is just starting. I think before me, before the Tunisian revolution, rap was ignored here. People are paying attention now. It's really popular, it's the new thing. But it's always been there in Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria.-El Général Despite its relative novelty as a form of artistic expression in the Arab cultural scene, rap music emerged in the last decade or so as a fresh force of sociocultural and political dissent that cannot be disregarded in the study of youth and Arab culture. In a world that is currently shot through with insurrection and revolt, rap music is not only part and parcel of the exponential curve of change sweeping across, among others,