Billy Tstrk’s LP ‘7ASHARA’ is a Survival Diary of Youth in Beirut

Lebanese rapper and producer Billy Tstrk has released his debut full-length LP ‘7ashara’, an audacious portrait of Arab youth flickering between ecstasy and exhaustion.

Released under the anarchic collective M7DH0N©, ‘7ashara’ feels like a breakdown caught on tape. Over 13 frenetic tracks, Billy channels the energy of a generation that lives entirely online yet feels terminally disconnected. The record blends DIY rap aesthetics with unapologetic punk sensibilities built from fragments of digital ruin, existential boredom, dysfunctional love and the brutal malaise of Beirut’s urban life.

The production is club-oriented and unstable, swelling with distorted synths, fast-paced twitchy percussion, and layered autotune vocals bent into digital hallucinations, as if Billy is trying to make sense of the chaos of young adulthood by plunging himself straight into it. On tracks like ‘Khalas’, he flips between desensitised detachment and emotional crash out, rapping as though caught in a feedback loop. Meanwhile, on ‘Llayle’, Billy offers a commentary on how the Israeli forces reduce Arab people to political subjects, denying them normalcy. Throughout the track, he acknowledges the contradiction of Beirut’s nightlife scene during wartime.

Lyrically, Billy’s verses in Lebanese slang–messy and unfiltered–capture the contradictions and burnout of being in your early 20s, oscillating between humour and despair at times, wanting to be seen and disappearing at the same time. It feels less like a melodrama and more like a reportage from the edge of a generation trying to outdance its own collapse.

In short, the ‘7ASHARA’ LP solidifies Billy Tstrk as one of the most promising talents in the region’s underground scene, showcasing his ability to deliver a deeply subversive take on Arabic hip-hop through modern poetic symbolism and forward-thinking productions.