Morocco Cancels Booba Concert Amid Controversy Over Lyrics

The cancellation comes after an online boycott campaign, initiated on social media in which lyrics deemed insulting towards Moroccan women were highlighted. An online petition to cancel the concert also garnered nearly 4,500 signatures.

The decision to ban Booba’s concert was supported by several personalities, including the Moroccan-origin rapper Maes, as well as some officials from the Justice and Development Party (PJD - Islamist). Despite the scale of the boycott campaign, the organizers were in discussions with the local authorities, recalling that Booba had already performed at the Mawazine Rythmes du Monde festival in Rabat in 2017, where he had gathered some 100,000 spectators.