LELLA للّا

Egyptian-Italian singer, songwriter, and rapper Lella Fadda (@lellafadda ) commands the stage with a hypnotizing performance of ‘TARAT TARAT TAT’, a standout from her newly released album ‘MAGNÜN’. Watch the full show via the link in bio.

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Italian-born, Egyptian rapper and singer @lellafadda ’s musical upbringing was anything but orderly. At home, her mother played Latin pop — Shakira above all. Weekends with her Egyptian grandmother belonged to a different world entirely: black-and-white films, classic songs, and the kind of nostalgia that arrives long before you are old enough to understand it. Two soundtracks, separated by decades and geography, eventually met somewhere in the middle. “I don’t believe in genres,” she tells YUNG. “I believe in a good song and a bad song.” Though she was born in Milan, Fadda has always been clear about where she belongs. “I’m Egyptian,” she says simply. “These are the streets I know without direction.” And when she performs abroad, the response arrives quickly — even before the lyrics do. “There can be someone standing in front of me who doesn’t know what I’m saying,” she says. “And they’re still dancing.” Hit the link in bio for the full story. Founder and Editor-in-Chief: @sandrayeghiazarian YUNG Creative Director: @saifhid Photography: @andrewkimber_ Styling: @snxtchin Makeup: @chiha0313 Hair: @kyosuketanzawa Set Design: @potlinsun Creative Contributor: @ali__kiblawi YUNG Creative Content Manager: @maya_______l Words: @byyasmiinaa YUNG Producer: @lamisjoudah Co-producer: @bylanashash Photography Assistant: @samuelsparrow Styling Assistant: @jadziascott_ Sound Designer: @maxbalin

One night during a performance of her viral single “TARAT TARAT TAT,” Egyptian singer and rapper @lellafadda glanced down from the stage and realised something unexpected. The entire front row was men. And they weren’t listening politely. They were shouting along to every lyric, including the lines about relationships and male behaviour in her songs that, under other circumstances, might have implicated them. “I burst out laughing into the mic,” she tells YUNG. The moment captured something essential about Fadda’s work: its ability to smuggle uncomfortable truths into a room before anyone quite realises what they’re admitting to. In her hands, irony becomes less a defence than a delivery system — a way of saying the thing everyone recognises but few say out loud. Hit the link in bio for the full story. Founder and Editor-in-Chief: @sandrayeghiazarian YUNG Creative Director: @saifhid Videography: @Michaelkonov Styling: @snxtchin Makeup: @chiha0313 Hair: @kyosuketanzawa Set Design: @potlinsun Creative Contributor: @ali__kiblawi YUNG Creative Content Manager: @maya_______l Words: @byyasmiinaa YUNG Producer: @lamisjoudah Co-producer: @bylanashash Photography Assistant: @samuelsparrow Styling Assistant: @jadziascott_ Sound Designer: @maxbalin

Four Names for Home - YUNG Anniversary Issue Before the streams, the studio sessions, or the debut album, @lellafadda had already written the plan. At twelve, the Egyptian artist scribbled a sentence in thick red crayon: I will be a singer like Adele. The note resurfaced years later while her family was clearing out her grandmother’s apartment in Cairo — a childhood declaration that reads less like wishful thinking and more like early proof. Today, at 25, Fadda is emerging as one of the most distinctive voices in Egypt’s new generation of pop and rap artists. Her debut album MAGNÜN moves between airy pop melodies and conversational rap, carried by the rhythm, slang, and emotional candour of Cairo’s everyday speech. “You can literally fake anything,” she tells YUNG. “But not the audio.” Some artists spend years trying to sound convincing as themselves. Fadda, it seems, understood early that this was the whole task. Hit the link in bio for the full story. Founder and Editor-in-Chief: @sandrayeghiazarian YUNG Creative Director: @saifhid Photography: @andrewkimber_ Styling: @snxtchin Makeup: @chiha0313 Hair: @kyosuketanzawa Set Design: @potlinsun Creative Contributor: @ali__kiblawi YUNG Creative Content Manager: @maya_______l Graphic designer: @heyporterposter Words: @byyasmiinaa YUNG Producer: @lamisjoudah Co-producer: @bylanashash Photography Assistant: @samuelsparrow Styling Assistant: @jadziascott_ Sound Designer: @maxbalin

“25” music video out now! كل حاجة عايزة اقولها موجودة في الاغنية دي Shot on FILM. Director/DP @Lamba.films Creative/Co-director @_amrfayek 2nd DP @Mostafamedhat Production @Weekender.films Producer @Yassinelbadawi Location Manager @Jrhussienn_ Post Producer @mison_elamin Editor @Bytaher Colorist @Youssefeldera Styled by @lellafadda + @sammkhaled Designer @marcelino_wasiely Make-up @mariaurad Hairstylist @Sohila Mongy Camera tec: Romany Murad FILM LAB CINEMA CITY EGYPT LAB SCAN EMPC Written by Lella Music by Adam Lenox, Tilman Ruetz Sadek Massarweh Mixed & Mastered by Nader Soliman SPECIAL THANKS MEN3EM, YOVEL.

“25” out tomorrow 7 pm! shot on FILM🖤 وحشتوني

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"ادينا اهو عرفنا" من فيلم #مين_يصدق . مبسوطة اوي من ردود افعلكم على الاغنية ومتحمسة اوي تسمعوا الجديد. شكراً لكل شخص عارف اللي فيها و بيسمعني من زمان❤️‍🩹 written by Lella composed by Tasnim Stait Prod by @elian9n #albumtwo #lellafadda