Deeb is a banker by day and a night music rapper and revolutions have a long history. Hip hop in the Arab world does not. But as the Arab spring becomes summer, it is hip hop emerging as one of the promoters of the revolution?"Mr President... have become people as animals..." "We live like dogs".
The words of the young Tunisian rapper El General, real name Hamada Ben Amor, in his track Rais Le Bled.
It was the end of 2010 when the General-, then a relatively unknown rapper - released track, along with a simple video, quietly on your Facebook site.
Raw and furious - by corruption, unemployment and poverty - and then stressed President Zine al - Abidine Ben Ali directly.
No blingWithin days he had gone viral, and the words of the song were on the lips of many as demonstrated in the streets in Tunisia.
"Certainly wasn't the General which triggered the Tunisian revolution, but the General and he Bled de Rais was one important factor among others," says journalist Andy Morgan.
"Rais you Bled only strips away all the bling and the brightness of the genre and leads right to the basics - is only a man in a micro tell like it is," told BBC World Service.He was a part of the General's bold move and that led him to be arrested and interrogated for three days in January by the Tunisian authorities.
"His art and his music became a strong symbol of this revolutionary tendency, which was of course a destination", says Martin Buch Larsen with Freemuse, a group that works to protect the rights of musicians in the world.
Express yourself"Hip hop is always something clear speaking, blunt talk, it cabling in the genre of the off," said Andy Morgan.
But also particularly difficult for the musicians in many Arab States of tightly controlled to express themselves.
In fact, so far, rap and hip-hop have had only a limited scope in the Middle East and North Africa - mainly among Palestinians and in Morocco.
But in recent months, appears to be gaining rapidly in many countries of Arab spring, including Egypt, Libya and Syria hip hop.
"Hip hop Arabic is now very young." It is a music of struggle, "says 27 years Mohamed El Deeb, a hip hop artist Egyptian based in Cairo, more commonly known as Deeb."
Before the revolution, said that he struggled to find a balance between the sea of love songs that dominated the airwaves in Egypt.
And although his music was a political advantage, he had to be very careful with his words.
"It would be to use other names." I think that 'they' or 'big fish' would never say 'Government', I would never say 'mubarak', explains.
The General has become something of a star in the last few monthsThat all changed during the weeks of protests in the Tahrir square, when it was rappers as Deeb, who were the first to get up on stage to perform.
"These revolutions have broken the barrier of fear and silence," said Omar Offendum, a Syria American hip-hop artist and one of the musicians behind the track # Jan25 - a reference to the day that the mass protests began in Egypt.
Next frontLibya is another country which has seen a very rapid increase of its hip hop scene - many of which focuses on Benghazi.
"In Libya there are a lot of musicians who have come from nothing," says Martin Buch Larsen with Freemuse.
"They are basically just enjoying the sudden freedom to actually produce their homemade productions and their homemade music and put it in the international media."
For the most part they are not managers, without labels, and there is no right of copyright in the music.
In place for the most part it spreads directly through the internet, mainly from YouTube, Facebook and Twitter.
Continue reading the main storyHip hop is close to the Arab culture of form - based on poetry and Arabs are very fond of poetry "end quote Deeb Egyptian rapper isn't easy, but for many artists in the region."
"The situation in Syria is getting worse every day;" with the upheaval that no one has no idea of the number of attacks against activists of human rights, artists and musicians, "says Martin Buch Larsen."
"We have reports but we can only scratch the surface," he said, adding Freemuse believe that a Syrian singer may have murdered for speaking out against President Bashar al - Assad.
Omar Offendum has not been back home at Syria since the beginning of the protests there, but he says he is determined to do that - although he is very aware of the risks.
"They are names to the President and his allies in ways very vocal - thousands of people are singing."
"To see it happen is itself a triumph, because this is a country that has had some of the worst forms of censorship," he told the BBC.
Interestingly, points out that music is being used by both sides leave your message.
"Millions of people are compatible with this system, and it has hip-hop songs being created to support the regime, so much as you had created music to criticize him."
Whose culture?
Omar Offendum said the track # Jan25 was a show of solidarityBut it is surprising that hip hop is having such an impact in the Middle East?
Not segun Deeb, who RAPS mostly in Arabic: "think all"hip hop is American"argument is not valid."
"The world is each due to globalization, there is no limit."
"I want to say right now I have jeans - does that you mean that not I wear jeans only because he is American"?
"We have to take the good things of other societies and make it bad."
"Hip hop is close to the Arab culture of form - based poetry and Arabs are very fond of poetry", adds.
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