Simohamed's Picks — My Top 10 Moroccan Rap Songs of 2025
2025 was packed with tracks, EPs, mixtapes… honestly, there are a lot of tracks and projects that came out in 2025 that I didn’t listen to, or I didn’t give the time they deserved. But from what I did hear and what stayed with me, this is my personal Top 10 list. I didn’t follow one single rule when choosing: sometimes it was based on feeling, sometimes on writing and technique, and that’s my philosophy with music. Sometimes it hits the heart, and sometimes it hits the mind, because that’s how human beings are made.
10 - “Kola Lila” by Lilzar
Lilzar is one of the rappers who really works on himself and has a unique touch you can feel when you listen to his projects. Even though this year he only dropped one track, for me he still deserves to be on my Top 10 list because I found myself in his song.
9 - “Kaporal” by Deimi
Deimi is one of my discoveries this year. A lot of his tracks impressed me in 2025, he works hard and gives writing the time and respect it deserves. On “Kaporal” he really delivered: double meanings and wordplay are there heavy, and the production goes crazy.
8 - “Azul” by PAUSE
Maybe this wasn’t PAUSE’s best year, but what made me put this track on the list is the state PAUSE was in and the circumstances he was going through (physically and psychologically) – which I knew about. And we all know that for an artist, what you live through affects you. That’s why I didn’t expect PAUSE to drop a project where he would diss rappers the way he did on “Azul” (he disses Muslim and L’Morphine, among other rappers and influencers).
7 - “Fundo” by Clemando ft. L’Morphine
Honestly, I knew there was a collab between L’Morphine and Clemando before it dropped. I tried to imagine it but couldn’t, because to me their two universes are so different that it’s hard to combine them. But when I heard the track, I liked it a lot, especially L’Morphine’s verse. It felt like he stepped out of his comfort zone. As for Clemando, he feels unique in his style. The writing and the vibe were fully present on this track.
6 - “VFC” by Fat Mizzo
Fat Mizzo is one of the greats. As is his custom, he releases a single track each year. This year, however, he delivered two: “VFC” and “Murray.” I liked both, but VFC more. Mizzo’s work just never disappoints: he gives writing its due, and he gives you bars and punchlines that stick in your head, exactly what he did on “VFC.”
5 - “La Masia” by Jntyyy ft. L’Morphine
When there’s a feature between two artists, usually you feel like one of them outshines the other. But on “La Masia” it’s the opposite, you feel Jntyyy completing L’Morphine, and L’Morphine completing Jntyyy. You can hear it even more in the hook, which is played in “pass-pass style” (like quick one-twos / tiki taka). Add that to a killer production. The track pulls you into its mood with the writing, the performance, and the well-crafted beat.
4 - “Fat L7al” by Mons
I can’t really describe this track, even though there’s technique and writing in it. But I put it on this list at #4 because it hit me hard. Before it came out, I was waiting for it, and when it dropped, that month I was listening to it at least three times a day. In music, feeling comes before everything, and this track is pure feeling.
3 - “The End” by Aessa
Aessa is the best discovery I had in 2025, no debate. A young kid from Oujda, but a killer with the pen. This track dropped around the time he was taking part in the competition online streamer Ilyas El Malki was running with rapper ElgrandeToto, and I was following the whole thing, and that’s where I discovered him. I think he’s the best in that group, and when he dropped this track, that idea got confirmed for me. This track is simply on another level. You could literally squeeze the careers of many rappers, and it wouldn’t even give you half of the double entender, wordplay, and punchlines that are in “The End”.
2 - “Sinine” by L’Morphine
For me, “Sinine” is the best track on L’Morphine’s new mixtape MC3. The mixtape was great with different styles and vibes, but “Sinine” was on another level. From the first line where L’Morphine says: “tle9to sinine bach ydor fl wednin“, (I played ‘Sinine’ (for years) so it would ring in ears) – what a double entendre. Here, he was most likely talking about the beat made by his life-long collaborator Limite Beatz, which had been on YouTube for a long time, and nobody snapped on it the way L’Morphine did. That line alone drove me crazy. Add the rest of the track, with Lmorpho’s ego and that heavy production, and you get a seriously insane track.
1 - “Yasuke” by Dizzy DROS
Rap is writing and its techniques before anything else. And the track that embodied that the most in 2025, for me, is Dizzy DROS’ “Yasuke.” The real writing is in this track, you have to listen to it to understand, because I can’t talk about everything in it; there’s too much.
VIDEO: 01 – Dizzy DROS – Yasuke (TPS) | Considered by many as one of the best written Moroccan rap songs.
