List of Iranian hip hop artists

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This is a list of active Iranian hip hop musicians.

Stage nameFull nameYear of birthCountry of residenceNotes
Yas Yaser Bakhtiari1982 Iran [1]
Hichkas Soroush Lashkary1985 United Kingdom [2]
Reza PishroMohammad Reza Naseri Azad1988 Turkey [3]
Bahram Bahram Nouraei1988 Sweden [4]
Ho3einHosein Rahmati1989 Germany [5]
Erfan Erfan Hajrasuliha1983 United States [6]
FadaeiAshkan Fadaei1990 France [7]
QufAli Reza Ghasemi1985 Iran [8]
Amir Tataloo Amirhossein Maghsoudloo1987 Iran [9]
Shahin Najafi Morteza Najafipoor Moghaddam1980 Germany [10]
Reveal Mehrak Golestan1983 United Kingdom [11]
Toomaj Toomaj Salehi1990 Iran [12]
Ali SorenaAli Khoddami1990 Iran [13]
ShayeaMohammad Reza Dadashpour1992 Iran [14]
GdaalAli Ghani Nezhad1992 Canada [15]
FarsadMohammad Farsad Abedi1999 Iran [16]
HiphopologistSoroush Valizadeh1993 Iran [17]
ChvrsiMahdi Jaafarpour1998 Iran [18]
PooriPooria Bashari1995 Iran [19]
Young SuddanMahmood Heydaripour1999 Iran [20]

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