Rap & Religions' Picks — My Top 10 Moroccan Rap Songs of 2025
Because this is my Top 10 best tracks that came out in Moroccan rap in 2025, and because what I think separates rap from other art forms is writing, this was my first criterion, regardless of the track’s status for me or the numbers it did. Here are my top 10 Moroccan rap tracks of 2025:
10 — “Existence égoïste” by Shino
Date: February 4
Shino came back with the two-track EP Erotik Melankolia after more than a year of being inactive. I picked this track because it’s a bit different from the tracks before it, mainly because of the dark vibe. From the intro, Shino pulls you in with his writing and the vocal range he played with. The artwork is enough to let you get a feel of what the song is about.
09 — “Duplicata” by Naafri
Date: April 10
Naafri is a unique rapper with a writing style that always amazes me and pushes me to think and dig deeper, from religion to society to his native Casablanca, Naafri portraits all of them cleverly in his lyrics, and that’s exactly what I found in this track.
08 — “Mythos” by Diib
Date: June 4
“Mythos” isn’t overly complex in terms of writing, as some of his tracks, but Diib discusses a lot of ideas that I agree with most of the time. It reminded me of Diib’s boldness when it comes to putting ideas on the table. He is not afraid to look at history or religion from a different angle, and that makes his music more interesting.
07 — “Curse 2” by Art Smoke
Date: January 25
“Curse 2” is the track where Art Smoke talks about his personal journey, the hard times he went through, and the past, especially how the past stays behind us but leaves a trace even when it passes. It’s a track I saw myself in, and I felt what Art Smoke was trying to deliver. Highly recommended for those who appreciate personal introspective.
06 — “Machu Picchu” by L’Morphine
Date: September 11
L’Morphine gave us the best mixtape this year, and it’s impossible not to pick at least one track from it. I chose “Machu Picchu” because it’s the track that hit me the most, and it has heavy writing with a crazy rhyme scheme, something we’re used to from L’Morphine. He doesn’t disappoint.
05 — “Hollow” by Yorpen
Date: May 15
Yorpen gave us some great joints this year. I liked the flow Yorpen used in this track, and the topic at the heart of the Sold Souls EP, with strong writing and a tough rhyme scheme that gave us “hollow” bars. At the very least, this track is hard and deserves to be in this year’s Top 5.
04 — “Kaporal” by Deimi
Date: February 5
Deimi is the rapper of the year for me. With this track he pushed boundaries and established himself as one of the best rappers of this generation, especially in writing. And since a lot of people will talk about this track, I’ll just leave four bars that show how much effort Deimi put into his writing, and how smartly he delivers it:
« 3brto meni 3bertona,
3amrin mr9a ghatchbek la mchito ta 3emmertona,
DEIMI fl’kitchen kicooki Sandwich ra 3mer tuna,
3zel touni w ji nl3bo ftiranek hania la 3zeltouna »
“I got through it when you couldn’t get through it,
full of sauce, nothing’s gonna stick if you go until you fill it up,
Deimi in the kitchen, cooking a sandwich—filled with tuna,
isolate Tony and come play in your yard, it’s fine if you isolate us.”
Because here he used alliteration/assonance and consonance with more than five letters, plus multi-syllables more than once, let alone the fact the full track is packed with techniques.
03 — “Saturn” by Aymane Haqqi
Date: January 18
On this track he uses the “pattern” technique the right way, in my opinion, not just taking words from the same lexical field (here: Moroccan city names) and stacking them, but playing with those words and giving them different meanings inside the bars. Plus, Haqqi used a technique I’ve never seen before: he gives you a word built from separated letters that were spread across a previous bar, and he did it twice.
02 — “Ixelogic 2” by Ixel
Date: January 28
This track, from the very start of the year, is my best track, and also the most underrated on this list. The reasons I put it at #2 is DROS dropped Yasuke. Ixel is consistently dope in every track: heavy writing, full of technique and wordplay, with a rhyme scheme you rarely see at this level. He gave us (as far as I know) the track with the most “hollow rhymes” in Moroccan rap.
01 — “Yasuke” by Dizzy DROS
Date: May 2
For me, this track is the biggest surprise that happened this year, because Dizzy shocked all of us with this level of writing, something we’ve never really seen this close to in his previous releases. He packed in most of the rhetorical devices in a clean way while still preserving meaning. He used a lot of techniques: patterns, lines that connect despite being far apart, homophones, and wordplay that made many bars in the track have double or even triple meanings. In short, Dizzy gave us a track we can consider a reference point for “well-written” Moroccan rap.
VIDEO: Dizzy DROS – Yasuke
