JACEM SAID
With a study in industrial maintenance, Jacem Said has changed his career in his study field to focus on his passion to be established as a rapper. In 2011, he started to produce and show his songwriting via Slam or Rap. Since a very young age, Jacem used to reflect on his quotidian, by writing as he feels it is his comfort zone to elaborate words that speak up about his daily life, the challenges, and Tunisia’s political, economical, social, and environmental situation.
Not only using music to manifest and perform, Jacem is also an activist with stop pollution in Gabes, a region in Tunisia southern, who has an experience in Theater, more precisely with “ Rahala ” group, an innovative cultural experience initiated by Dancers Citizen South that travels to different regions, villages and towns in Tunisia southern to perform and to show different theatrical pieces for the goal to decentralize, integrate and include all the people especially the marginalized in cultural and artistic events. Furthermore and in collaboration with the singer Lufi and the producer Nadhir Boussaoud, he founded the group V.I.B.E in which he was the songwriter and singer.
For the last few years, Jacem has been performing either as a rapper or a theater actor in different regions’ youth cultural centers, primary and high schools, and universities, last year he was part of “ Hors-Lits” which was held in Chenini and initiated by Al Badil – Alternative Culturelle. Through his songwriting, his new album release “Musexual”, and his performance, Jacem works to encourage other youth to believe in their talent and work to transform their talents into professional work.