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Wegz Caps Busy Year With ‘AQAREB (Side B)’

BYYassine Hariss

December 16, 2025

Since the release of his debut album in 2019, Wegz (born Ahmed Ali) went on to release a string of singles — his preferred format over the past half decade — before dropping a long-awaited follow up earlier this year dubbed GADWAL EL DARB. Through seven tracks, the EP marked the Alexandria-born artist’s comeback to longer forms of storytelling, trading standalone songs for a more cohesive body of work.

Providing long-time listeners with enough material to keep busy, just months later, another opus was released, conceived as a second album many had been waiting for a long time. Dubbed AQAREB, the project extended the momentum of its predecessor, building confidently on its foundations while boasting a new range of sounds too. And just as the year draws to an end, Wegz just unveiled AQAREB (Side B) — an unanticipated second half that arrives less as an extension than as a closing gesture, neatly sealing one of the most prolific chapters of his career.

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Available across streaming platforms since this week, the release arrives with 12 new tracks— the same as Side A— and a carefully chosen lineup of collaborators, including Moroccan rapper Raste, Nigerian singer-songwriter Tiwa Savage, and Saudi star Dhom Altlasy, among others. With twice the number of features compared to the first half, collaborations inevitably set the tone this time around; most notably Kalam Forsan, with Egyptian icon Mohamed Mounir, which has already edged close to two million streams on Spotify alone.

Released with a subtly altered cover, the visual language remains largely intact across both artworks, except for a few deliberate changes: the off-white background gives way to a deep crimson red; Wegz turns from a direct gaze to a profile; and the small inset images are also reworked. Different though close enough to hint, at a glance at least, that the two releases are part of the same continuum rather than separate projects altogether.

Click here to stream AQAREB (Side B).

Wegz Caps Busy Year With ‘AQAREB (Side B)’

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