"M3a L3echrane" () is a song by the Moroccan rapper

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released on February 14, 2023. The song is in the

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tradition of a

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, making a variety of social and political critiques. The music video was viewed over 10 million times on YouTube in the first five days of its release, with three million views in the first 24 hours alone. As of April 2025, the video has over 86 million views.

Music video

The

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for "M3a L3echrane", directed by WLDRB (), Oualid and Youness Bouslame, begins with a disclaimer:

"Disclaimer: This is not a work of fiction, all the characters in this film are real and are not a product of the author's imagination. And if the shoe fits, wear it."

The clip features impersonations of various public figures, with Dizzy Dros performing the likenesses of the pop star Manal Benchlikha, the Prime Minister of Morocco and

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CEO

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, and the

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''al-Ittijah al-Muʿākis'' debate show host

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. Other figures are also represented in the clip, including the rapper

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, the influencer Asmaa Beauty, the secular Amazigh scholar-activist Ahmed Assid, and the Islamist politician and former prime minister

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is another theme; in one scene, Dizzy Dros, dressed as a reporter, is dragged away from a

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and imprisoned after having thrown a shoe, an allusion to Muntadhar al-Zaidi's throwing of his shoes at

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in 2008.

Reception

The Moroccan literary critic lauded "M3a L3echrane" and likened Dizzy DROS to

Antarah ibn Shaddad Antarah ibn Shaddad al-Absi (; 525–608 AD), also known as ʿAntar (), was a pre-Islamic Arabian poet and knight, famous for both his poetry and his adventurous life. His chief poem forms part of the '' Mu'allaqāt'', the collection of seven "h ...

in the use of creative artistic expression to courageously challenge an unjust reality, and to

Al-Mutanabbi Abū al-Ṭayyib Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Mutanabbī al-Kindī ( – 965 AD), commonly known as Al-Mutanabbi (), was an Abbasid-era Arab poet at the court of the Hamdanid emir Sayf al-Dawla in Aleppo, and for whom he composed 300 folios of ...

in the use of veiled and explicit messages and in impressing colleagues with artistic ability.

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References

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