Rapper/producer and songwriter Marwan Moussa has become a main driver of Egyptian hip-hop’s explosion in recent years. Relocated from Cairo to California to study sound engineering, he explores the genre’s potential with idiosyncratic sounds from across the map. Electro-shaabi, trap and G-funk grooves are anchored by his knack for affecting hooks—a creative vocabulary that’s as resonant as it is thrilling to decipher. Melding references from Scarface to football, Moussa’s more accessible and trap-indebted 2021 LP Florida took his bracing sound to an even wider Arabic audience.