in the 1980s, nasr mahrous was a fan of mohamed mounir who was a well known pop artist, but stayed quite far away from the music world for a long time. he signed under the label of freemusic in 2000 and released his first album (fi eshk elbanat – in the love of girls), which was a success, and they both decided to go for another album (albi masaken shaabeya – my heart is suburbs) and filmed the video clip of so, ya so.