Attaoui Issam grew up in Rabat, finished his studies, then lost the friend who had spent years telling him to rap without compromise. That loss sits at the centre of KIDAR DE DAR, the debut EP from KLOPO — Issam’s stage name — now available across streaming platforms.
The title translates directly KIDAR DE DAR means “the black sheep of the family.” KLOPO wears that description as the EP’s organising principle rather than deflecting it. The project tracks an outsider who refuses to sand down his edges for acceptance — someone who has absorbed loss and come out the other side not softened but sharper. The intro track, “DFA3HA TRIB,” sets that tone from the first bars.
Musically, the EP works in dark atmospheres and direct language. KLOPO’s lyricism stays close to personal experience — loss, identity, pride, the specific texture of street-level realism in Rabat. Collaborators KIRA7 and RAMBOO, both from Casablanca, add contrast and breadth to the project without diluting its central voice. The tension between solo introspection and collaborative energy gives KIDAR DE DAR more structural range than most debut releases manage.
The EP also engages the Moroccan rap tradition of lyrical confrontation — a format with deep roots in the culture, where artists establish credibility through direct exchanges with named peers. KLOPO references figures including FNAIRE, VIRA, and DON BIGG. These are not personal feuds framed as music. They are, as KLOPO presents them, artistic dialogue — a way of placing himself within a lineage and demanding to be measured against it.
“Kidar de Dar, that’s me,” KLOPO said. “It’s everyone who’s been pushed aside, everyone who refuses to please just to exist. This project is about owning that truth without apology.”
That line works as a summary of what the EP attempts. KLOPO does not position KIDAR DE DAR as a bid for mainstream approval. The project reads as a statement directed at the people who already know why it needed to be made — those who recognise the friend who was lost, the pressure to conform, the choice to refuse. Whether Moroccan rap’s wider audience meets him there is the open question. On this debut, KLOPO makes clear he is not waiting around to find out.
