Queen Thug, First female Moroccan rapper
1999
July 01
L'boulevard, Casablanca
Widad Mjama, Born in 28 june 1983 is known in Morocco as the first female rapper of the country. the rap group Thug Gang.
Daughter of an Arabic teacher and with a mother in the military, she joined the group Thug Gang and together they won the third edition of L’Boulvard (Festival du Boulevard des Jeunes Musiciens) in 2001, what soon became one of the most prestigious music festivals in the country.
By the time rap became omnipresent in the Moroccan music scene in the mid-2000s, Widad and Walid, another member of Thug Gang, left Morocco to continue their studies in France.
In France, she now leads together with Walid the extremely successful electro-Hip-Hop band N3erdistan.
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