The scheduled concert of French rapper Booba, on June 21, is still hotly debated by internet users in Morocco, as the Casablanca prefecture recently refused to authorize the event. However, Booba announced on social media that his concert is duly upheld for June 21.
Since mid-March, the album “Duc” has been the subject of a boycott campaign on Moroccan social media due to sexist, misogynistic and racist comments against women of North African origin, embedded in several of Booba’s hit songs.
Moroccan podcaster, close to the Moorish galaxy -ultra-nationalist movement- Tarek Talk launched an online petition to cancel Booba’s concert, which was supported by members of PJD party, Moroccan-French Rapper Maes, Moroccan news outlets, and Club of Lawyers of Morocco. To date, the petition had garnered 4,404 signatures.
The Ministry of Culture had declared that it cannot intervene in such private event.
In his 2017 track “E.L.E.P.H.A.N.T”, and which evokes the sexual scandals around the former head of the Italian government, Booba makes explicit reference to Moroccan women.
Even in the absence of an official authorization, tickets almost sold out at Guichet.ma website.